{"id":17510,"date":"2016-01-28T19:06:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T00:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=17510"},"modified":"2016-01-28T19:06:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T00:06:53","slug":"thursday-evening-thoughts-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=17510","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Evening Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, gang. The weather continues to look like it really wants to take a big walk on the wild side as we roll into February. There are several extreme options on the table with the setup I&#8217;m looking at trying to develop.<\/p>\n<p>After tonight&#8217;s snow shower maker, we focus on warmer air for the weekend. That warmer air will boost temps into the 50s to near 60, but also may throw some showers our way Sunday night and Monday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Euro110.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17506\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Euro110.png\" alt=\"Euro1\" width=\"596\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Euro110.png 596w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Euro110-300x207.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can already see a\u00a0 much bigger storm developing across the southwest. That storm is going to absolutely crank into a monster in the plains states by Monday and Tuesday. It will likely have a blizzard on the cold side and a severe weather outbreak on the warm side&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Euro35.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17507\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Euro35.png\" alt=\"Euro\" width=\"991\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Euro35.png 991w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Euro35-300x122.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 991px) 100vw, 991px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For us, that could mean record highs on Groundhog Day Tuesday as winds crank to 40mph or higher. Strong to severe thunderstorms would then roll eastward that afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n<p>Temps crash behind that and could be 40 degrees colder by late Wednesday as some wraparound snow showers fly.<\/p>\n<p>This leads us back into a winter pattern that has harsh written all over it for much of the country. Look at the temperature 850mb departures behind that front on the GFS Ensembles from WeatherBell..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GFS-TEMPS-14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17504\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GFS-TEMPS-14.png\" alt=\"GFS TEMPS 1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GFS-TEMPS-14.png 1024w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GFS-TEMPS-14-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look a little farther down the road. The AVERAGE from the European Ensembles for a 5 day span in Celsius&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Euro-318.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17509\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Euro-318.png\" alt=\"Euro 3\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Euro-318.png 1024w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Euro-318-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To see those kinds of numbers from an Ensembles run for a 5 day period is astounding. Now look at the extreme look at 500mb&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Euro-224.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17508\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Euro-224.png\" alt=\"Euro 2\" width=\"717\" height=\"1026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Euro-224.png 717w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Euro-224-210x300.png 210w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Euro-224-716x1024.png 716w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yowza!<\/p>\n<p>I leave you with your snow shower trackers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/builder.zoomradar.net\/zoomradar_weather_map\/weather_page.php?key=dlFZs5IY4VCw7bK\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"seamless\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have a terrific evening and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, gang. The weather continues to look like it really wants to take a big walk on the wild side as we roll into February. There are several extreme options on the table with the setup I&#8217;m looking at trying to develop. After tonight&#8217;s snow shower maker, we focus on warmer air for the [&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-17510","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\/17510","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=17510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}