Good Wednesday to one and all. It’s another windy and very mild day across Kentucky, but a cold front is ready to put a quick end to that on Thursday. Much colder air comes in behind that and this is a precursor to an even colder look as we head into Thanksgiving week.
Here’s a breakdown of how things play out for the next few days:
- Temps today make a run at 70 in most areas as a strong southwest wind kicks in.
- Those winds may reach 30mph-40mph ahead of our front through tonight.
- A rounds of rain will sweep across the state from west to east later tonight through Thursday afternoon. Skies improve quickly behind that round of rain.
- Thermometers tank behind the front and stay in the 40s for Thursday afternoon.
- It gets really cold Thursday night with temps in the low and middle 20s. Friday morning wind chills may reach the upper teens.
- Friday is a seasonably cold day with highs ranging from the upper 30s to middle 40s.
The weekend finds temps closer to normal, but the focus quickly gives way to the system rolling in for Sunday and Monday. This looks to bring the coldest air of the young season in here for the beginning of Thanksgiving week.
The GFS is slowly correcting itself and is much farther west with the system dropping in here…
The EURO is very similar…
That’s absolutely frigid for this time of year…
Check out the wind chills from the GFS for Tuesday morning…
That’s just 🥶🥶.
That lifts out by Wednesday, but another system is going to try and take its place before the week is over. How this works itself out remains to be seen and we are getting some pretty good model disagreement from run to run.
The GFS has a winter system…
The EURO is trying to do the same and has a colder look…
The longer range look from the EURO Ensembles keeps the colder than normal trend going through the end of the month and into the start of December…
The GFS Extended has this look for the first week of December…
That’s a cold look to begin Meteorological winter!!
Speaking of winter, don’t forget…
I will have updates later today. Until then, here are your radars to follow the rain in from the west…
Have a great day and take care.
It’s an unseasonably warm 61 degrees at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport this early morning, and 60 degrees at the NWS Forecast Office in the SW suburbs. Only scattered light showers are expected from late morning to mid-afternoon before turning much colder later in the day and at night.
Who knows… this could be the last time we hit 60 degrees until March!
It’s Winter Weather Preparedness Week this week in Illinois. Here is the link which includes a lot of useful information regarding the various winter weather hazards: https://weather.gov/lot/winterprepare
Even know I’m a little out of range to watch Chris winter forecast live tomorrow. I will be looking forward to watch it on you tube once it’s said and done. Very windy out and have a great day!!!
Go to ( WKYT LIVE NEWS) on Google and I always bookmark the site so it will be at the ready.
Thanks Schroder