{"id":12754,"date":"2015-01-03T02:35:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T07:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=12754"},"modified":"2015-01-03T02:35:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T07:35:02","slug":"extreme-period-of-weather-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=12754","title":{"rendered":"Extreme Period Of Weather Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Saturday, everyone. Our weather pattern is shifting into overdrive with a lot of extreme weather showing up over the next few weeks. This pattern kicks off today with high winds and the potential for strong thunderstorms. That will soon give way to bitterly cold temps and snow chances.<\/p>\n<p>Rounds of rain will roll northward across the state today as warmer air pushes in. This will all be just ahead of low pressure passing across western Kentucky late today. Thunder and lightning will join the mix as the day wears on and a squall line of storms will be possible this evening into tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Winds are going to be a big player from this afternoon into tonight. Gusts of 40-50mph will be possible&#8230; especially as the squall line races in tonight. That&#8217;s something for us to keep a close eye on.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rainfall will also be likely with 1&#8243;-2&#8243; rains for some.<\/p>\n<p>Our cold front swings eastward late tonight and early Sunday with crashing temps behind it. Winds will still be gusty as rain showers change to snow showers from west to east&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12759\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS3.png\" alt=\"GFS\" width=\"417\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS3.png 417w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS3-300x128.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Temps by Monday morning will hit the teens with single digit wind chills. That brings us to the point of the arctic attack for the middle and end of next week. A clipper arrives on Tuesday with the true arctic front sweeping in early Wednesday. The GFS and European Models bring some flakes our way with those systems. The Canadian brings some out and out snows&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Canadian3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12756\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Canadian3.png\" alt=\"Canadian\" width=\"671\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Canadian3.png 671w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Canadian3-300x142.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 671px) 100vw, 671px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The real story will be the cold coming in behind that. Check out the numbers from the GFS&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS-Temps2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12758\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS-Temps2.png\" alt=\"GFS Temps\" width=\"522\" height=\"1069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS-Temps2.png 522w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS-Temps2-146x300.png 146w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS-Temps2-500x1024.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian goes even colder for Thursday morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Canadian-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12755\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Canadian-2.png\" alt=\"Canadian 2\" width=\"526\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Canadian-2.png 526w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Canadian-2-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gusty winds will accompany this arctic outbreak and that may lead to dangerously cold wind chills Wednesday and Thursday. Many models are now indicating widespread -10 to -20 feels like numbers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS-Temps-22.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12757\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS-Temps-22.png\" alt=\"GFS Temps 2\" width=\"525\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS-Temps-22.png 525w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GFS-Temps-22-300x184.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That looks a lot like some of the brutal days we had last winter, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>A new trend in the models is for another arctic front to show up on Friday. The GFS and European aren&#8217;t as cold as the one you see above, but the Canadian goes hog wild with Saturday morning lows&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Canadian-31.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12760\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Canadian-31.png\" alt=\"Canadian 3\" width=\"521\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Canadian-31.png 521w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Canadian-31-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/a>I do NOT endorse that map, but it illustrates the extreme weather possibilities upon us.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of extremes&#8230; let&#8217;s track today&#8217;s wind and storm action&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #292929;\">Current temperatures<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kymesonet.org\/wxmaps\/tair_f_large.png?nowtime=1325915126\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"208\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sustained Winds<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kymesonet.org\/wxmaps\/brbs_large.png?nowtime=1325915761\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I will have updates later today. Make it a good one and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Saturday, everyone. Our weather pattern is shifting into overdrive with a lot of extreme weather showing up over the next few weeks. This pattern kicks off today with high winds and the potential for strong thunderstorms. That will soon give way to bitterly cold temps and snow chances. Rounds of rain will roll northward [&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-12754","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\/12754","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=12754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}