{"id":13382,"date":"2015-02-09T02:15:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T07:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=13382"},"modified":"2015-02-09T02:15:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T07:15:37","slug":"wicked-cold-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=13382","title":{"rendered":"Wicked Cold On The Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good Monday, everyone. Colder air is pushing across the commonwealth of Kentucky today and this is just a small preview of what’s ahead. We have some big time cold on the way for later this week into the coming weekend, and that’s likely kicking off a nasty period of winter weather.<\/p>\n

Colder winds continue to blow out there today. Temps will pretty much fall for much of the day and will drop into the low and mid 30s this afternoon. A few rain showers will be possible early with some snow showers or flurries possible later today in the central and east.<\/p>\n

The main show begins to push in Wednesday night as arctic air attacks. This is a significant blast of cold air that may have a band of light snow and flurries along the front. The northwesterly flow behind has the look of a decent snow shower and snow squall maker for Thursday…<\/p>\n

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Folks, that is -20c air at 850mb rolling into our region and that will combine with our northwesterly wind coming off the Great Lakes to kick off some squalls. Those could cause some issues if they develop as indicated above.<\/p>\n

Gusty winds and falling temperatures would be with us on Thursday with readings dropping into the teens. Lows by Friday morning may reach the single digits and low teens with wind chills around zero or a bit below.<\/p>\n

The next arctic front shows up on Valentines Day and looks even stronger and colder…<\/p>\n

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That could also produce some decent snow showers and snow squalls around here late Saturday into early Sunday. The air behind that is stupid cold at 850mb and is greater than -30c just to our northeast…<\/p>\n

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The computer model forecast numbers keep tending colder with all these shots. The shot above looks like this for Sunday morning lows…<\/p>\n

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The wind chills on this latest GFS for Sunday morning…<\/p>\n

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Again… that’s some stupid cold across the eastern half of the country.<\/p>\n

This is also a pattern that can create a major winter storm for the Midwest and Ohio Valley next week. I’m not saying what that specifically means, if anything,\u00a0for our weather in Kentucky. Read that last sentence again and make sure it sticks with you. \ud83d\ude09 I’m simply stating the look of the overall pattern is one that can produce a significant winter storm from the Midwest into the Ohio Valley.<\/p>\n

I will update things later today. Take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good Monday, everyone. Colder air is pushing across the commonwealth of Kentucky today and this is just a small preview of what’s ahead. We have some big time cold on the way for later this week into the coming weekend, and that’s likely kicking off a nasty period of winter weather. Colder winds continue to […]<\/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-13382","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\/13382","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=13382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}