Good Monday, everyone. Christmas week is off and running on a mild note, but it’s a week where clouds are going to be an issue at times. By the time we head into the upcoming weekend, some hefty changes are showing up with a return to winter for much of the country to close out the year and kick off 2020.
Let us start with today and roll ahead. Temps are mild, but clouds are an issue across areas of central and eastern Kentucky. This is from our major storm working across the south and southeastern parts of the country. This is just far enough north to provide a few showers into extreme southeastern parts of Kentucky early this morning. Here’s your regional radar…
The farther west and north you go, the better the weather will be as the sun makes an appearance.
Temps for the week are mild and that’s a given. Highs generally run in the 50s to low 60s. That’s a trend right on through Friday and Saturday.
Once into the weekend, we see a change finally showing up, but how this evolves is still a work in progress. The models aren’t playing nice with one another…
GFS
Canadian
Euro
There isn’t much run to run consistency and that’s to be expected with a pattern change.
I will look a little deeper into that change with updates later today. Have a good one and take care.
Sorry, Chris, not even a sprinkle ever reached Harlan. EURO struck out!
Yeah even the NWS in Louisville noted that no measurable rainfall occurred or was reported in SE Kentucky.
Folks get your flip flops and shorts back out and fire up the grill!
Gonna be a warm one this Christmas!
Totally unlike this time period back in 1989 with the snow and then record cold. I was five, only have vague memories (was living in Morristown TN at the time). But I recall my parents later saying the below zero temperatures killed many shrubs and other vegetation in the yard.
Ohhh, the good ole days:) Becoming less and less common to even reach zero in Harlan. Only 2014 and 2015 winters dropped below zero in recent years while early January 2018 reached 0 even. We didn’t get close to zero last year during all of that media driven arctic blast of the Mid West that shut down all of the schools, although the northern half of KY did go below zero last year that event; Harlan only reached 10 above. We went many years in the 2000s and 2010s above zero but almost always reached zero in the 90s and 80s, even if only a day or two per year then.
Epic cold…with staying power all the way down into the Keys of Florida from the 22nd through the 26th of December 1989. Miami had a low of 30 degrees on December 25, the only other recorded temperature that cold in December was on the 12th in 1934. Low temperatures from the 21st through the 24th in Lexington were -10 degrees or colder.
Quite the sharp gradient to precipitation amounts over the weekend. I recorded 1.12″ of rain near Sevierville, while almost nothing fell just 50 miles to my north.
You definitely know that it is a awful winter week when clouds are an issue. And all the models above don’t show that much of a major change. Low going up the Ohio River with rain as usual.
I’m happy with not one single drop from this system.
Donuts with sprinkles…sounds good about now.
Go to Donut Express in the Prairie View shopping center in Valley Station, really good
Just around the corner from where I live