Merry Christmas, everyone. Here’s hoping you all are having a wonderful holiday season. Our weather is anything but in the holiday spirit as we have very mild temps rolling on. Those mild digits will take us into the start of the weekend, but a big change takes place by the time we hit Sunday. That’s when Old Man Winter wakes back up.
Temps out there today are straight out of the heat meiser’s playbook, but some clouds will be noted. I can’t rule out a sprinkle showing up at some point. The clouds and mild temps will continue though the end of the week as a few showers develop.
The weekend looks very active as a powerful storm rolls into the northern plains, dragging a cold front across Kentucky. Ahead of this storm on Saturday could be super mild and super windy. As the front moves in Saturday night and Sunday, showers and thunderstorms look to increase. Winds will also be very gusty as colder air sweeps in behind the front.
Some wrap around snows will be possible by Monday and Monday night.
The GFS continues to be very consistent with this whole setup…
Check out those maximum wind gusts…
Here’s the Canadian with the setup…
The Euro continues to split the energy, allowing for a big cutoff low across the upper midwest…
Watch how blocky the look is on the Euro as it likely develops several southern stream storms in this configuration…
Have a Merry Christmas and take care.
Merry Christmas Chris!
And Merry Christmas to all the people that read this blog.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Very unusual temperature differences this morning statewide. At 6:45, Mesonet sites at some locations in western Kentucky showing a 14 degree difference between Cadiz and Benton, 16 degree difference between Scottsville and Bowling Green, and a 13 degree difference between Hodgenville and E’town, locations that are for some just a 15-minute drive from each other.
51 at Edmonton in Metcalfe county; 29 at Burkesville in Cumberland county, a distance of nearly 20 miles as crow flies.
Merry Christmas to all my fellow KWC weather weenies, especially the Lord Master Chris Bailey. Hope everyone has a blessed day. Make sure you put on your sunscreen today as it will be quite balmy. LOL
Merry Christmas to everyone another week of this warm weather I better get the planters ready and tractors serviced I’ll be heading to the field but you know Kentucky weather it will be snowing April 1st and a frost may 15
It’s going to be a near-historic day weatherwise here in the Chicago area! The predicted high temperature of 58 degrees would make this the second-warmest Christmas ever in Chicago since 1873, trailing only the 64 degrees that was set in 1982 (the following year in 1983, it was 17 below zero!).
We’ve had three 50-degree days in a row (55 degrees yesterday) with two more coming up, which would be only the second time ever that Chicago has had five 50-degree days in a row in the second half of December.
Last year’s Christmas was also mild, with a high of 45 degrees. Our last White Christmas was in 2017, which saw nearly two inches of snow on Christmas Eve Day and a cold high of 21 on Christmas Day.
At least we had a White Halloween this year for the first time ever, with nearly three inches of snow and a cold 33-degree high!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all readers of KWC, and here’s hoping for a major pattern change for lots of snow (well, at least one or two good snowstorms) this Winter.
I read that the NWS office is in the southwest suburbs of Chicago in Romeoville, not too far from friends of ours we were supposed to visit in November. But, the weather did not cooperate for us to travel there.
You’re right… the Chicago NWS office is located in Romeoville, only about 5 miles or so from where I live.
I wasn’t born until just after Christmas 1983. But I’ve read descriptions of it being called The Great Freeze of 83!
Nothing like today, currently 68 in Nashville TN. A few 70/71 readings on the KY Mesonet.
Merry Christmas, everyone. Jesus is the reason for the season.
Louisville has set an all-time Christmas high temperature.
Will this week’s warm temps be enough to push most official sites above the December 2018 monthly average by the 31st, do you think? I need some number crunching.
Actually, many locations in central Ky may set ‘top ten warmest’ marks
In my backyard temps started at 28 and we are now at 70 no shock to the system here. Merry Christmas.
Big frost and 70 here too to finish, lol. Typical late October or March feel in the air. Bees, flies and dandelions, OH MY!
We may pay for this spring like temps. Merry Christmas everyone!!
Yeah with misery just like last year and a lot of recent years will be the likely result. These warm temps in December through February are getting to be too common anymore. Used to like in the 90s, we would get a few warm days like this and then get “paid back” by winter so to speak . Now, we get these long warm stretches then get paid back by a few day cool down to average or slightly below average, shorter duration than these warm spells. Bah humbug!
Some of you think to much of negative. It does snow here in KY maybe not as much you want. We had a stretch of from 2012- thru 2017 of good snow and cold. It all comes in cycles folks just let mother nature do it works regardless we get it or not.
Exactly!!!