Good Friday to one and all. It’s another gorgeous fall day in the Commonwealth as pleasant temps and sunny skies take control. Once into the weekend, we track a cold front that looks to bring near record cold air to our region early next week.

Let’s start with today and hit the fast-forward button. The day starts with temps ranging from the middle 30s to low 40s with a touch of frost. This afternoon is breezy with temps in the 65-70 degree range for many with numbers a little higher in the west.

The weekend weather is all about where you live. The threat for scattered showers and storms is there, especially across the south. Winds will continue to be gusty with temps starting to come down a bit before really crashing on Monday.

Then the REALLY cold air crashes in behind a winter looking system. It’s a system that can bring rain and snow showers across the Ohio Valley into the Appalachian Mountains…

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You can see just how close those snowflakes get to our part of the world. Odds favor the flakes staying to our east, but it might be a close call for the far southeast.

The temps are a major story as readings could make a run into record territory in the low and mid 20s. Even the warm biased models are showing numbers way down there…

Check out wind chills at the same time…

Holy smokes!

Folks, you just don’t see cold like that very often this time of year. That’s been the trend of the fall and that continues later next week into the following weekend…

If we look at the snow maps from the various ensembles, they show a pattern that has an outside chance to bring some flakes into Kentucky over the next few weeks…

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Make it a fantastic Friday and take care.