{"id":1659,"date":"2008-11-21T05:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2008-11-21T05:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T22:25:00","slug":"its-wintertime-in-the-bluegrass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=1659","title":{"rendered":"It’s Wintertime In The Bluegrass!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good Friday everyone and welcome to winter and the weekend!  We started ringing the bells about an early start to winter way back in September and here we are talking about the second snowfall of the week and we aren’t even to Thanksgiving yet. As of this writing… your friendly weather dude has seen snow falling from the sky on 5 days already. Not too bad.

Our Thursday evening snowfall turned into a photogenic one across the bluegrass state. Here is a taste of some of the pics from the faithful bloggers…

Wayne from Jeffersonville<\/STRONG>


Renee’ from Lexington <\/STRONG>gets us in the Christmas spirit with this pic…



Crystal from Pikeville<\/STRONG>



Jason from Harlan<\/STRONG>


Tommy from Lexington<\/STRONG>… anytime my man!


Thanks to all those who sent in pics. If you guys can make them as small as possible… the blog would surely appreciate it.

Snow showers really increased across the state late Thursday and those will continue into the first half of our Friday… especially in the east. I have about an inch at my house near Ashland and driving home after work…  I hit one of the heaviest snow showers I have seen in a long time. It was basically a whiteout! I love it.

Here was the snow call we put out Thursday and it looks like a good one…



I would not be surprised to see a 3″ amount somewhere down there! I am sure we will have a few happy teachers and school kids today getting a rare November snow day.
 
This is a pattern that is throwing some forecasters for a loop as it is biased toward going cold and snowy. I have seen some horrendous forecasts this week but me ranting about them does no good as nothing seems to change.You know…  I hate when I miss a forecast (and I have missed my share )… but I have pride and care about the work i put out to the public and try to get it right the next time. This isn’t just a job for me… I love what I do and I hope it shows.

Like I said… I am sooooo tempted to rant. But they don’t care so why bother.

Let’s get to the weather.

Snow showers will wind down early on this Friday across eastern Ky. We will likely keep a few flurries flying well into the afternoon hours. Highs today will stay in the low 30s across much of the region. Some areas in the east may not hit 30. Brrrr. Winds will be very gusty as well creating wind chills down in the low 20s at times.

We will clear the skies out Tonight into early Saturday and this will lead to another VERY cold night. Temps will be in the teens across the entire region. The coldest valley’s that retain any snow cover can make a run toward 10 degrees.

A weak system will be dying out as it moves into the state Saturday. Clouds will increase and we can easily see some flurries later Saturday with highs staying in the 30s.

Sunday looks to be the warmest day of the next week with temps likely hitting the 40s for highs. That is still below normal for this time of year.

The next system will be rolling in quickly Monday as a cold front moves into the region as low pressure heads into the lakes. This likely means a cold rain for Monday with temps around 40 for highs. Here is what the GFS is showing for Monday…



While that looks like it could produce snow… temps should be just warm enough for the cold rain. Much colder air will wrap in quickly Monday evening with rain changing to snow showers Monday night and carrying over into Tuesday…



That is another situation where we could put some snow on the ground across this area. This is taking us into the busy Thanksgiving travel period so any bad weather is bad news for those heading over the river and through the woods to grandma’s house.

A big storm could be in the cards for Thanksgiving weekend and this is something to really keep any eye on given the pattern we are in. Take EVERY model run with a grain of salt for the end of next week and beyond. They will have trouble with the details of a pattern that is heading toward possible extreme winter weather over the next few weeks.

I will do some video forecasts over the weekend and will be updating as usual. Winter forecast comes out next week… but that looks like it’s late since winter started last week!

Have a great Friday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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