Good Friday, folks. It’s a day more typical of the middle of November than the middle of October as the coldest air of the young fall season finds the bluegrass state. This is leading to some frost in the west and central this morning, but widespread frost and a light freeze are on the way for everyone tonight. Green Thumbs are on high alert as frost will be on the pumpkins.
Highs today are generally in the 50s after starting out with a wide range in temps. Areas of the east will have clouds around, keeping temps in the 40s this morning. A few showers may even linger…
Western Kentucky and parts of central Kentucky will be deep into the 30s and I won’t be surprised to see a few upper 20s in the west.
Tonight is when we say goodbye to the growing season across the board. Lows reach 30-35 for many with some pockets of upper 20s showing up.
The rest of the day will feature gorgeous fall weather with highs from the upper 50s to the middle 60s, depending on where you live.
Changes show up pnm Sunday as another powerful cold front drops in from the northwest. This has wintertime air coming in behind it, but the front may only get halfway across the state before stalling out. That would lead to rounds of rain and some rumbles of thunder along it for the first half of next week…
This has one heck of a temp gradient from one side of the front to the other. When we are south it, it gets chilly. Whenever it’s to our north, its pretty darn mild.
Much of what happens after this may tie directly to the tropics. We continue to watch a couple of systems that still have a shot at developing in the next week and change…
The GFS continues to keep the system in the Atlantic from coming too far west as it brings a front into the east late next week. The system from the Caribbean is still the one to watch a few days later. That one may still try to play a game of hookup with a deep trough in the east…
Once the tropics situation gets resolved, watch the cold pour back into the plains and east on the GFS Ensembles…
I will have another update later today and be back on WKYT starting at 4pm. Have a fantastic Friday and take care.
Some showers early this morning with a temperature in the mid 40’s in my county of Taylor.
I hope we have our first frost the next few mornings, but not a freeze yet. A freeze would ruin our chances for colorful Fall foliage.
Please lets don’t have this “front hang up” stuff.
I’m ready for our first snow in mid November ?
I don’t know, Schroeder. Something keeps telling me that we will have first flakes before Halloween, and probably more snow than we know what to do with this whole winter season. I don’t have anything to base that on, only that overall, weather-wise, it’s been a very different sort of year, and the air/atmosphere just has a very odd “feel” to it the past several months. I can’t remember the last year where we actually could open the windows and leave them open all night and be comfortable instead of running the a/c or using fans sometimes up until November. And me, the Allergy Queen, well…no meds and no sniffling or choking to death on post-nasal drip all night for a couple months now, which is odd in itself since I keep that stuff all year long. And anyway…it IS 2020, after all. ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN! 🙂
You may be right Debbie. As Chris mentioned several times in his blog; the weather pattern is “the polar opposite of last year.”
It’s interesting that one of the computer models that CB showed on a previous update indicates an accumulation of snow by the end of this month for Northern IL, including the Chicago Metro Area. Last year, it was by far the snowiest Halloween ever for Chicago, as over three inches of snow fell. Last October wound up being the second snowiest October in Chicago weather history.
Could we possibly have a snowy end of October for the second straight year? We’ll see how the forecast evolves.
We will have to see how this La Nina sets up.
Mike it looks like the Chicago area as well as the Great Lakes are going to be in the “sweet spot” for plenty of snow this Fall and Winter.
From Montana through North and south Dakota is forecast to have frigid temperatures along with blowing snow. We shall see.
South Dakota
I know that 12z GFS run won’t happen, but its sure fun to look at.
minus the hurricane of course