Good evening, everyone. It’s a nice end to the weekend for many of us, but our eyes are focused on the week ahead and some big changes. Mild winds will give way to a big blast of cold as Old Man Winter settles into the region earlier than normal this year.
Most of the week ahead is dry and mild. Highs on Monday reach the middle 60s to low 70s. Those numbers drop on Election Day as we keep the nice sky. Temps then bounce back up toward 70 for Wednesday and Thursday.
Ok, that’s the boring part of the forecast. Let’s get to the wild stuff.
We are very likely to have a strong tropical storm or hurricane hitting Florida in the week ahead. This is the system we’ve been watching heading toward the Bahamas and the National Hurricane Center says this is likely to develop…
It’s not unheard of for November hurricanes to develop, but it’s not common for one to strike the US. We are not living in common weather times.
That system likely moves into Florida then gets turned up the east coast by a powerful cold front working into the eastern half of the country on Friday. The remnants from this system may bring some rain into eastern Kentucky.
For the rest of us, very cold air surges in for next weekend. The models are now in pretty good agreement with this whole scenario…
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That cold air locks into our region and the models are then hinting at a winter looking storm system coming from the southwest early the following week. This is something that’s only in the “interesting” category as of now…
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Make it a great evening and take care.
I’ll take the European weather model. Looks like a good soaking rain. Hope there isn’t any ice. Snows stay North in La Nina Winter’s usually. El Nino Winters more likely have the best chance of Snows for Western and Central Kentucky. This year was suppose to be a El Nino year, but didn’t pan out. Maybe next year’s Fall and Winter ?
I wonder if this cold Arctic air forecast to come into our region has staying power ? I don’t care for dry, cold to frigid air that stays and results in a very high monthly heating bill.