Good afternoon, folks.  It’s a windy and wet system rolling across the region today and it’s introducing a wintertime look and feel for the upcoming weekend. This has the potential to produce some flakes across our part of the world.

Winds are gusting to around 40mph or a little better as our line of rain rolls eastward. Here are your radars to follow the action…

Colder air pushes in behind this front tonight and early Friday, but the main push of cold air waits to arrive Friday evening. This is when another weak system pushes through here with an increasing band of showers that may end with some flakes mixing in Friday night and Saturday morning. The best chance is across central and eastern Kentucky. You can see some of the flakes showing up on the future radar from the Hi Res NAM…

The temp crash behind this is pretty cool to see. Here’s the temp animation from 2pm Friday to 7am Saturday…

Saturday is a cold day and the NAM Fam of models keeps us in the 30s. Here’s the Hi Res NAM temp animation from 7am-7pm Saturday…

Let’s not forget about those wind chills for the same time period…

The next system continues to look like a clipper diving in here later Sunday into Monday. This will bring a swath of light rain and light snow into the Ohio Valley with another cold shot and flakes flying behind it. The models continue to bounce around a lot with how to handle this system.

The NAM only goes through 7pm Sunday, but you can see the light rain and light snow getting into Kentucky…

The Short Range Candian has a much broader area of light rain and light snow into the state…

The Canadian is of like mind…

The EURO shows some light rain and snow…

The GFS continues to show wild run to run swings with this system…

The bias of the GFS is to always overplay the northern stream energy and that’s what you’re seeing there. The model is what it is, folks.

Temps rebound quickly for the middle of next week, but another strong cold front brings another shot of cold by late week into the following weekend.

I may drop by for a late evening update, so check back. Have a good one and take care.