{"id":12741,"date":"2015-01-02T12:25:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T17:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=12741"},"modified":"2015-01-02T12:25:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T17:25:04","slug":"update-on-the-wild-ride-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=12741","title":{"rendered":"Update On The Wild Ride Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Friday afternoon, gang. The light wintry mix from earlier in the day is giving way to showers that will increase as we head into tonight. That takes us into a wild weekend of weather that will feature thunder, mild, high winds, cold and snow showers. Oh and the arctic attack for next week continues to look very stout!<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rain is a good bet across the state through Saturday night. Check out the totals from the GFS&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12742\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS-2.png\" alt=\"GFS 2\" width=\"262\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of those rains will come from thunderstorm action late Saturday into Saturday night. We could even see a squall line working into the region as the cold front swings in. Wind gusts may top 40mph later Saturday into Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Temps will reach near 60 on Saturday and the crash down from west to east on Sunday. Wraparound moisture will be in the form of rain showers in the morning with snow showers kicking into high gear during the afternoon and evening&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12745\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS1.png\" alt=\"GFS\" width=\"619\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS1.png 619w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS1-300x85.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next system arrives Tuesday as a clipper brings some light snow our way. The true arctic front sweeps in Wednesday with falling temps. We may see afternoon temps falling into the single digits! The new version of the GFS is crazy cold&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS-Temps1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12744\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS-Temps1.png\" alt=\"GFS Temps\" width=\"522\" height=\"1063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS-Temps1.png 522w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS-Temps1-147x300.png 147w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Model is even colder for Thursday Morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Canadian2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12746\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Canadian2.png\" alt=\"Canadian\" width=\"516\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Canadian2.png 516w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Canadian2-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just crazy to see considering the models aren&#8217;t showing much, if any, snow on the ground. If the Tuesday clipper can deliver some snow&#8230; look out.<\/p>\n<p>Something else to look out for is the wind chill. This would rival some of the brutal days of this past winter&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS-Temps-21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12743\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS-Temps-21.png\" alt=\"GFS Temps 2\" width=\"577\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS-Temps-21.png 577w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS-Temps-21-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/a>While I am confident we have a significant blast of arctic air coming, I&#8217;m not going as cold as what the models are now showing. Still&#8230; I&#8217;m not too far away with a arctic attack that will make headlines in the week ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the system that follows this up late Friday into Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>I will update again later today. Have a good one and take care.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Friday afternoon, gang. The light wintry mix from earlier in the day is giving way to showers that will increase as we head into tonight. That takes us into a wild weekend of weather that will feature thunder, mild, high winds, cold and snow showers. Oh and the arctic attack for next week continues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}