{"id":161,"date":"2011-08-21T04:52:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T04:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.kyweathercenter.com\/?p=161"},"modified":"2011-08-21T04:52:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T04:52:04","slug":"tracking-sunday-storms-talking-tropics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Sunday Storms &#038; Talking Tropics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><FONT style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12px\" face=arial>Good Sunday everyone. A cold front is working across the state today and is bringing scattered showers and thunderstorms with it. This will kick off what should be a wild week of weather across the eastern half of the country and that might put us in line for some active conditions.<BR><BR>Let&#8217;s start with today and work forward&#8230;<BR><BR>&#8211; A strong storm or two is possible today and any one storm will put down some locally heavy rains. <BR><BR>&#8211; The front will usher in a fresh brand of air for Monday as temps come back down into the upper 70s and low 80s for highs. We should see a mix of sun and clouds with only a small chance for a shower.<BR><BR>&#8211; After another nice day on Tuesday&#8230; we will watch the northwestern sky for some showers and thunderstorms moving in by Wednesday.<BR><BR>&#8211; These on and off showers and storms will hang around into Thursday as another front dips in from the northwest. <BR><BR>-It is at this point our weather outlook gets a little cloudy as we wait to see what happens with Tropical Storm and future Hurricane Irene. This storm is going to be a big player across the eastern gulf with Florida looking to be in the bullseye by the end of the week. Here is the latest forecast from the National Hurricane Center&#8230;<BR><BR><A href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/graphics_at4.shtml?5-daynl?large#contents\"><IMG alt=\"[Image of 5-day forecast and coastal areas under a warning or a watch]\" align=left src=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/storm_graphics\/AT09\/refresh\/AL0911W5_NL_sm2+gif\/023912W5_NL_sm.gif\" width=500 height=400><\/A><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>&#8211; This has the look of a rather wild storm once it gets to Florida as it should be a fairly slow mover and may produce wind damage and flooding rains well inland and pretty far north.&nbsp;Where that track is won&#8217;t be known for several more days. &nbsp;I will say, given the model support and overall pattern, this may impact our region next weekend.<BR><BR>It always spices up the tropical tracking when a system has a chance to directly impact our weather and we will be all over it in the coming days.<BR><BR>In the meantime&#8230; track today&#8217;s scattered showers and storms&#8230;<BR><BR><IMG alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/radblast-mi.wunderground.com\/cgi-bin\/radar\/WUNIDS_map?station=JKL&amp;brand=wui&amp;num=6&amp;delay=15&amp;type=N0R&amp;frame=0&amp;scale=1.000&amp;noclutter=0&amp;t=1272129776&amp;lat=0&amp;lon=0&amp;label=you&amp;showstorms=0&amp;map.x=400&amp;map.y=240&amp;centerx=400&amp;centery=240&amp;transx=0&amp;transy=0&amp;showlabels=1&amp;severe=0&amp;rainsnow=0&amp;lightning=0&amp;smooth=0\"><BR><BR><IMG alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/radblast-mi.wunderground.com\/cgi-bin\/radar\/WUNIDS_map?station=LVX&amp;brand=wui&amp;num=6&amp;delay=15&amp;type=N0R&amp;frame=0&amp;scale=1.000&amp;noclutter=0&amp;t=1272129536&amp;lat=0&amp;lon=0&amp;label=you&amp;showstorms=0&amp;map.x=400&amp;map.y=240&amp;centerx=400&amp;centery=240&amp;transx=0&amp;transy=0&amp;showlabels=1&amp;severe=0&amp;rainsnow=0&amp;lightning=0&amp;smooth=0\"><BR><BR><IMG src=\"http:\/\/radblast-mi.wunderground.com\/cgi-bin\/radar\/WUNIDS_map?station=PAH&amp;brand=wui&amp;num=6&amp;delay=15&amp;type=N0R&amp;frame=0&amp;scale=1.000&amp;noclutter=0&amp;t=1293824059&amp;lat=0&amp;lon=0&amp;label=you&amp;showstorms=0&amp;map.x=400&amp;map.y=240&amp;centerx=400&amp;centery=240&amp;transx=0&amp;transy=0&amp;showlabels=1&amp;severe=0&amp;rainsnow=0&amp;lightning=0&amp;smooth=0\"><BR><BR><A href=\"http:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/radar-large.asp?partner=netweather&amp;traveler=0&amp;site=KY_&amp;type=SIR&amp;anim=1&amp;level=state&amp;large=1#\"><B><FONT face=Arial><IMG class=radar_img_6x4 alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" useMap=#largemap><\/FONT><\/B><\/A><BR><BR>I will have updates as needed. Have a great Sunday and take care.<\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Sunday everyone. A cold front is working across the state today and is bringing scattered showers and thunderstorms with it. This will kick off what should be a wild week of weather across the eastern half of the country and that might put us in line for some active conditions.Let&#8217;s start with today and [&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-161","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\/161","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=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}