{"id":17619,"date":"2016-02-03T03:15:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T08:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=17619"},"modified":"2016-02-03T02:10:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T07:10:30","slug":"winter-set-to-fight-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=17619","title":{"rendered":"Winter Set To Fight Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good Wednesday, everyone. Groundhog Day turned out to be a wild one across the bluegrass state with record highs and some severe storms. Now our attention turns toward Old Man Winter fighting back into the eastern part of the country. The stage is set for some potential harsh winter weather starting next week.<\/p>\n

I’ve been tracking this potential for the past week and have been really focusing on the upper levels. Focusing on the lower levels, such as a surface map, is pointless, but we’re getting closer to the time to start looking at those.<\/p>\n

The upper levels continue to favor a wild setup across the eastern half of the country. Watch this mega trough dig into our region from Sunday through Wednesday…<\/p>\n

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Upper level setups like that often bring about harsh winter weather. The surface map from the GFS is slowly trying to figure it all out…<\/p>\n

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Notice how it has multiple lows scattered across our region into the eastern part of the country. That amounts to the model fighting with itself in trying to figure things out. It’s a few more days from that, but it’s catching up to what the upper levels would suggest.<\/p>\n

The European Model shows a similar battle going on…<\/p>\n

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Temps from the GFS model run are frigid…<\/p>\n

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That same run of the GFS then brings the Polar Vortex toward the Great Lakes a few days later…<\/p>\n

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That’s some wicked cold showing up behind that…<\/p>\n

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The Canadian Model has the same setup, but has the core of the cold a bit farther west with a storm introducing the bitterness…<\/p>\n

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Moral of the story… winter has a lot left in the tank over the next few weeks. Will it take things toward the extreme or give us a run of the mill period of winter weather? That remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

I will update things later today. Enjoy the day and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good Wednesday, everyone. Groundhog Day turned out to be a wild one across the bluegrass state with record highs and some severe storms. Now our attention turns toward Old Man Winter fighting back into the eastern part of the country. The stage is set for some potential harsh winter weather starting next week. I’ve been […]<\/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-17619","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\/17619","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=17619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}