{"id":17646,"date":"2016-02-04T01:56:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T06:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=17646"},"modified":"2016-02-04T01:56:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T06:56:52","slug":"tracking-the-return-of-winter-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=17646","title":{"rendered":"Tracking The Return Of Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Thursday to one and all. We continue to highlight early next week for a big return to winter across the eastern half of the country. Arctic cold temperatures and rounds of snows look to kick off a rather harsh winter pattern for our part of the world.<\/p>\n<p>The weather between now and Sunday night looks pretty calm. Beyond that&#8230; it&#8217;s anything but calm.<\/p>\n<p>The HUGE trough digging into the region Monday through Wednesday is likely to bring waves of light snow and snow squalls. Check out the GFS&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GFS-21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17641\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GFS-21.png\" alt=\"GFS 2\" width=\"941\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GFS-21.png 941w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GFS-21-214x300.png 214w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GFS-21-730x1024.png 730w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 941px) 100vw, 941px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look at how strong that northwesterly flow is. With multiple disturbances moving in and the Great Lakes waters warmer than normal&#8230; look out. If that flow does indeed set up like the GFS suggests, snows could add up over the course of that 3 day period. That particular run shows some decent totals&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GFS-Snow.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17644\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GFS-Snow.png\" alt=\"GFS Snow\" width=\"650\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GFS-Snow.png 650w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GFS-Snow-300x249.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>That&#8217;s over the course of a 3 day period with the chance the model is a little underdone. Typical model variance will show up from run to run, so don&#8217;t get overall attached to any one map.<\/p>\n<p>The GFS Ensembles individual members from WeatherBELL\u00a0lend support to the operational GFS.<\/p>\n<p>MONDAY EVENING<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GFS-32.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17642\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GFS-32.png\" alt=\"GFS 3\" width=\"851\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GFS-32.png 851w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GFS-32-300x253.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY AFTERNOON<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GFS-41.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17643\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GFS-41.png\" alt=\"GFS 4\" width=\"849\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GFS-41.png 849w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GFS-41-300x253.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bitterly cold air and gusty winds cap off this run of the GFS and the model is sending wind chills below zero at times&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GFS-Temps1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17645\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GFS-Temps1.png\" alt=\"GFS Temps\" width=\"451\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GFS-Temps1.png 451w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GFS-Temps1-243x300.png 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will update things later today, so check back.<\/p>\n<p>Make it a good day and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Thursday to one and all. We continue to highlight early next week for a big return to winter across the eastern half of the country. Arctic cold temperatures and rounds of snows look to kick off a rather harsh winter pattern for our part of the world. The weather between now and Sunday night [&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-17646","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\/17646","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=17646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}