{"id":16345,"date":"2015-11-19T19:03:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T00:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=16345"},"modified":"2015-11-19T19:03:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T00:03:15","slug":"update-on-the-weekend-wintry-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=16345","title":{"rendered":"Update On The Weekend Wintry Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, gang. The forecast continues to play out as expected with a blast of winter weather rolling our way for the upcoming weekend. This isn&#8217;t a huge deal in terms of snow, but the first flakes of the season always gets our attention.<\/p>\n<p>Temps ahead of the front on Saturday will hit the low 50s as clouds quickly increase. Winds will be gusty as temps crash once the front sweeps through. A 20 degree drop in just a few hours is a good bet. Much of the precipitation falls in the colder air behind the front. That means a period of rain and snow showers will be likely&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GFS28.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16343\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GFS28.png\" alt=\"GFS\" width=\"860\" height=\"1056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GFS28.png 860w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GFS28-244x300.png 244w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GFS28-834x1024.png 834w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a>That&#8217;s a pretty decent burst of snow showing up on the GFS early Saturday evening. Leftover flakes will carry us into Sunday morning in eastern Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a big snowstorm for areas to our north&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GFS-221.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16344\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GFS-221.png\" alt=\"GFS 2\" width=\"735\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GFS-221.png 735w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GFS-221-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/a>Notice how the GFS suggests some accumulation across Kentucky. I&#8217;m not seeing that at the moment, but I can&#8217;t rule out a rooftop coating if it snows hard enough.<\/p>\n<p>Wind chills hit the low and mid teens Saturday night and Sunday morning. Brr!<\/p>\n<p>The long range call for Thanksgiving week is for another storm system to impact our weather. This looks to be during the busy holiday weekend and you&#8217;re now seeing the models going back to what they were showing up until a few days ago. Rain and snow are on the early Thanksgiving weekend weather menu.<\/p>\n<p>I will have a full update later tonight. Take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, gang. The forecast continues to play out as expected with a blast of winter weather rolling our way for the upcoming weekend. This isn&#8217;t a huge deal in terms of snow, but the first flakes of the season always gets our attention. Temps ahead of the front on Saturday will hit the low [&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-16345","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\/16345","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=16345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}