{"id":16754,"date":"2015-12-19T02:12:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T07:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=16754"},"modified":"2015-12-19T02:12:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T07:12:55","slug":"a-very-wet-pattern-taking-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=16754","title":{"rendered":"A Very Wet Pattern Taking Shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Saturday, everyone. Snow flurries and snow showers swept across the bluegrass state right on cue, Friday. This action finally gave us a wintertime feel, but it&#8217;s not going to last long. A super soaker of a pattern is taking shape for the next week and change. It&#8217;s one that could cause some issues before all is said and done.<\/p>\n<p>Highs today will range from the upper 30s in the east to the low and mid 40s far west. Skies will be partly to mostly sunny.<\/p>\n<p>Clouds thicken from west to east Sunday as temperatures start to rise. Rain then sweeps in here Sunday night and Monday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GFS31.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16753\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GFS31.png\" alt=\"GFS\" width=\"831\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GFS31.png 831w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GFS31-300x83.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 831px) 100vw, 831px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That system passes by early Tuesday as temps start to climb toward the low 60s. That will take us through Wednesday as another storm system throws rain our way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GFS-224.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16749\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GFS-224.png\" alt=\"GFS 2\" width=\"834\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GFS-224.png 834w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GFS-224-300x213.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 834px) 100vw, 834px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Temps will come down a few degrees by Christmas Eve and Day, but should still be above normal. It looks like low and middle 30s for Christmas Morning.<\/p>\n<p>Temps really take off into the start of Christmas weekend as a BIG storm system wraps up and slowly works our way. This will have one heck of a temperature gradient to feed on across the Ohio Valley, and that could spell rounds of very heavy rain&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GFS-311.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16750\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GFS-311.png\" alt=\"GFS 3\" width=\"681\" height=\"1028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GFS-311.png 681w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GFS-311-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GFS-311-678x1024.png 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The actual low then wraps up late weekend into early next week and crosses the region&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GFS-45.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16751\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GFS-45.png\" alt=\"GFS 4\" width=\"681\" height=\"771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GFS-45.png 681w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GFS-45-265x300.png 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a setup for a lot of rain. Recent runs of the GFS have been spitting out crazy amounts for the next week and change. The latest run looks like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GFS-52.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16752\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GFS-52.png\" alt=\"GFS 5\" width=\"532\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GFS-52.png 532w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GFS-52-300x232.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Model isn&#8217;t quite as wet, but is still pretty darn ugly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Canadian8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16748\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Canadian8.png\" alt=\"Canadian\" width=\"334\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Canadian8.png 334w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Canadian8-266x300.png 266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I stayed up late jus to see how much rain the European Model printed out, and it&#8217;s impressive. These totals are before the actual low works through here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Euro15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16756\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Euro15.png\" alt=\"Euro\" width=\"527\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Euro15.png 527w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Euro15-300x184.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to get you an update later today. Make it a great Saturday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Saturday, everyone. Snow flurries and snow showers swept across the bluegrass state right on cue, Friday. This action finally gave us a wintertime feel, but it&#8217;s not going to last long. A super soaker of a pattern is taking shape for the next week and change. It&#8217;s one that could cause some issues before [&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-16754","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\/16754","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=16754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}