Good Tuesday and Merry Christmas Eve! It’s a mild Christmas week that we continue to track, but big changes look to blow into town this weekend and into the closing days of 2019. This will bring Old Man Winter back into our region, with early January looking to right the winter weather ship.
The weather this week is mild, but it does come with clouds from time to time. As a matter of fact, those clouds may spit a few sprinkles at us later Christmas Day with a few showers possible by later Thursday and Friday.
The main show arrives this weekend in the form of a potent plains storm system. That will drag a pattern changing cold front across the region late Saturday into Sunday. Ahead of this, temps Saturday may be the warmest of the week as a strong southwesterly flow kicks in. This will lead to showers and thunderstorms developing ahead of the front.
Once the boundary passes through, temps drop like a proverbial rock and will be more than 30 degrees colder than the numbers ahead of it. There’s also the potential for some backlash snows.
This scenario has been consistent on the GFS…
I’ve not shown the European Model with this system because the model was suffering from it’s normal bias of holding back energy in the southwest. The latest run corrected that and looks more like the GFS, but with a twist. The Euro develops another low along the front…
That would certainly make things a little more interesting for Sunday night and Monday.
Once the early week system move through, we are likely to see a deeper trough digging into the country by the end of next week. Watch how the Euro digging in with that trough…
The GFS Ensembles continue to take on an active winter look over the next few weeks, suggesting snow chances into the deep south…
I will get you an update later today. Merry Christmas Eve and take care.
Bring on the snowy pattern!!
There is no snowy pattern.
Rain, trends
Not holding my breath this time.
Doesnt look too promising thru mid January at least. Afraid it might be another( but becoming more common) rain train winter. Santa may have to leave his sleigh at the north pole this year and come in his 4 wheel drive. Every one have a Merry Christmas!
I hope his 4 wheel drive is a convertible.
I am not a sunny type of guy, especially in winter; however, I am going to make the best of this weather. I am going walking today while my palms are soaking up the sun and loving this break from constant rain.
Merry Christmas Eve to all and special shout out to Coffeelady and her family for health and cheer!
Your talk of sun/palms inspired me to mow my lawn again. I thought I was finished back at Thanksgiving, after putting mower on lowest setting. But the mild/wet pattern has kept it going. I might not get my usual 3 month break.
66 in Harlan, not a cloud in the sky. Perfect for an early Easter but not a Christmas feel whatsoever. I refuse to mow until March, all be it, it really got high last year during that subtropical February we had. I could have cut it last year in February, but I refused, LOL:)
Temps made it to 67.5 today after starting off at 30 in Knox county
Merry christmacBkeybabd Bloggers!!! We are still right arm and hand dead from stroke!! So pray for me I ask my beloved weather bouts!!!!
Sure will. Merry Christmas to you!
Root beer froth = visual hype…looks like you get a lot in a cup, but once the froth dies down, left with a lot less than you thought you had.
Do you think this week’s temps will be enough for most or all official recording sites in KY bump up the averages and end up beating last year on the monthly December average temps?
Happy Easter to everyone.
Anyone catch the discussion concerning cellular interference (as 5G networks increase in coverage) to our weather Sats.? Apparently they will be using the frequency and bandwidth that our weather sats are using, which NOAA is concerned will seriously effect the ability to retrieve data necessary to make a accurate 3 day forcast.and “could” set back forecasting to 1980 era forecasting. We will see I suppose .
I didn’t think they had advanced past that year in their Winter forecasts anyway.
Total agree
Merry Christmas KWC posters and Mr. Bailey. Lovin the 60’s. Keep it up until May. Get well soon ROLO.
I’ll take those 60’s as well…..keep em rolling all winter