{"id":17365,"date":"2016-01-20T19:16:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T00:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=17365"},"modified":"2016-01-20T19:16:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T00:16:02","slug":"wednesday-evening-update-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=17365","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Evening Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, everyone. The next winter storm moves our way late tomorrow night into Friday. This will likely bring significant amounts of snow to much of the region. Winds are also going to become an issue as the storm cranks just to our east.<\/p>\n<p>I have no changes to my First Call map from earlier today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Special-25.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17358\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Special-25.png\" alt=\"Special 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Special-25.png 728w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Special-25-300x152.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That may change after looking at the 0z model runs, but I&#8217;m comfortable with where things stand at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>The late day GFS looks a lot like that map, but with higher totals&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GFS-41.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17371\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GFS-41.png\" alt=\"GFS 4\" width=\"685\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GFS-41.png 685w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GFS-41-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That same run is pointing toward a period of freezing rain early Friday across the south&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GFS-217.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17369\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GFS-217.png\" alt=\"GFS 2\" width=\"400\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GFS-217.png 400w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GFS-217-300x221.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The SREF snowfall chances at exceeding set snowfall amounts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SREF.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17368\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SREF.png\" alt=\"SREF\" width=\"400\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SREF.png 400w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SREF-197x300.png 197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those are pretty high numbers considering that&#8217;s an ensemble average.<\/p>\n<p>The WPC seems to follow along with those thoughts in terms of the snowfall risk areas. Here&#8217;s for Thursday night and Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/HPC2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17366\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/HPC2.png\" alt=\"HPC\" width=\"818\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/HPC2.png 818w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/HPC2-300x93.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friday Night and Saturday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/HPC-21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17367\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/HPC-21.png\" alt=\"HPC 2\" width=\"894\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/HPC-21.png 894w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/HPC-21-300x89.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 894px) 100vw, 894px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Again, those are impressive percentages.<\/p>\n<p>Winds are going to be a big, big issue Friday into early Sunday. Gusts of 35mph will be possible and that would create blowing and drifting snow.<\/p>\n<p>If the models are correct in putting down a deep snowpack, temps Saturday night would absolutely tank under a clearing sky. The GFS lows for Sunday morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GFS-36.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17370\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GFS-36.png\" alt=\"GFS 3\" width=\"591\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GFS-36.png 591w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GFS-36-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have the usual late night update with a new call for snowfall. Enjoy the evening and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, everyone. The next winter storm moves our way late tomorrow night into Friday. This will likely bring significant amounts of snow to much of the region. Winds are also going to become an issue as the storm cranks just to our east. I have no changes to my First Call map from earlier [&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-17365","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\/17365","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=17365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}