{"id":15865,"date":"2015-10-22T02:56:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T06:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=15865"},"modified":"2015-10-22T02:56:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T06:56:46","slug":"a-busy-end-to-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=15865","title":{"rendered":"A Busy End To October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Thursday, everyone.\u00a0 October is typically a pretty boring month and this month has certainly fit the bill. But, things look much more active as we close out the month. As a matter of fact, one could argue this pattern looks a little supercharged over the next week and change.<\/p>\n<p>The pattern gets cranking this weekend as a cold front nears the area from the west and northwest. Showers and thunderstorms will increase ahead of this front on Saturday. Winds will also be very gusty and could approach 30-35mph at times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GFS8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15869\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GFS8.png\" alt=\"GFS\" width=\"539\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GFS8.png 539w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GFS8-290x300.png 290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The front slowly works through here Sunday with rains tapering off from northwest to southeast later in the day. Highs will be cooler with readings in the 60s.<\/p>\n<p>A leftover shower will be possible Monday as we find ourselves in between storm systems.<\/p>\n<p>The next system coming in late Tuesday and Wednesday has the potential to bring a lot of rain and wind to our region. Some kind of storm is likely to be along the gulf coast and should get drawn northward ahead of a trough digging into the plains states. How these two interact will be the key on just how powerful of a storm we see and how much cold air comes in behind it.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, a lot of rain and wind looks increasingly likely from Tuesday through Thursday. Here&#8217;s how the GFS plays it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GFS-23.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15867\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GFS-23.png\" alt=\"GFS 2\" width=\"775\" height=\"972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GFS-23.png 775w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GFS-23-239x300.png 239w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a>That&#8217;s not a full blown hookup between the southern storm and the storm diving in across the plains, but it&#8217;s enough to pull down a nice shot of chill behind it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GFS-32.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15868\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GFS-32.png\" alt=\"GFS 3\" width=\"884\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GFS-32.png 884w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GFS-32-300x127.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 884px) 100vw, 884px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The European Model\u00a0 has a slightly different solution with the same end result. It features a stronger northern stream system winding up across the lakes with a potent low lifting slowly northward\u00a0 from the Gulf into the Carolinas&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Euro14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15872\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Euro14.png\" alt=\"Euro\" width=\"664\" height=\"964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Euro14.png 664w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Euro14-207x300.png 207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a lot of rain and wind with a nice shot of cold behind pushing in here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Euro-211.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15871\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Euro-211.png\" alt=\"Euro 2\" width=\"982\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Euro-211.png 982w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Euro-211-300x108.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 982px) 100vw, 982px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This setup resembles the big Halloween storm from 2013. Remember all the problems that one caused across our region?<\/p>\n<p>I will likely have another update coming later today, so check back. Make it a great day and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Thursday, everyone.\u00a0 October is typically a pretty boring month and this month has certainly fit the bill. But, things look much more active as we close out the month. As a matter of fact, one could argue this pattern looks a little supercharged over the next week and change. The pattern gets cranking this [&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-15865","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\/15865","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=15865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}