{"id":18566,"date":"2016-04-03T02:10:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T06:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=18566"},"modified":"2016-04-03T02:10:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T06:10:04","slug":"a-winter-looking-pattern-ahead-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=18566","title":{"rendered":"A Winter Looking Pattern Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Sunday, folks. High winds and a hard freeze are dominating the weekend weather picture across the bluegrass state. As if this isn&#8217;t wild enough, the pattern for the week ahead looks like something straight out of wintertime, and could deliver some snowflakes to our part of the world.<\/p>\n<p>After 20s start the day, temps warm into the upper 40s to low 50s this afternoon under mostly cloudy skies. Winds won&#8217;t even come close to what we had on Saturday, but will still be gusty.<\/p>\n<p>Those gusty winds increase on Monday as another strong cold front blows in from the northwest. Scattered showers and thunderstorms will be possible as temps briefly spike into the 60s. As the front slams through here, temps drop like a rock and wind up in the 20s again by Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A much stronger system with a bigger push of cold air arrives later Wednesday into Thursday. Winds could again top 45mph at times as this system works in. Showers and thunderstorms will be along and ahead of the cold&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=18563\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18563\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18563\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Euro-1.png\" alt=\"Euro\" width=\"994\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Euro-1.png 994w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Euro-1-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Euro-1-768x541.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 994px) 100vw, 994px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An upper level system dives into the region late Thursday into Friday and could produce snow showers and flurries&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=18561\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18561\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18561\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Euro-3.png\" alt=\"Euro 3\" width=\"994\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Euro-3.png 994w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Euro-3-300x102.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Euro-3-768x261.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 994px) 100vw, 994px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=18560\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18560\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18560\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Euro-2-1.png\" alt=\"Euro 2\" width=\"825\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Euro-2-1.png 825w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Euro-2-1-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Euro-2-1-768x431.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Highs on Thursday drop through the 40s and may not get out of the upper 30s by Friday. Wow! If skies can clear Friday night&#8230; LOOK OUT. Record shattering temps would be possible&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=18565\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18565\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18565\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/GFS-Temps.png\" alt=\"GFS Temps\" width=\"581\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/GFS-Temps.png 581w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/GFS-Temps-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To put that in perspective, there have only be 3 times Lexington has ever hit the teens during the month of April. 1982 and twice in 1875.<\/p>\n<p>We aren&#8217;t alone with this bitterly cold air for this time of year. Look at the temp departures across the eastern half of the country&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=18562\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18562\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18562\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Euro-4-1.png\" alt=\"Euro 4\" width=\"1178\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Euro-4-1.png 1178w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Euro-4-1-300x132.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Euro-4-1-768x339.png 768w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Euro-4-1-1024x452.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1178px) 100vw, 1178px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The damage to our plants and vegetation could be devastating.<\/p>\n<p>The overall pattern over the next two weeks continues to look ugly, ugly, ugly. Check out this cool animation of the cold shots during this time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=18564\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18564\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18564\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/GFS-GIf.gif\" alt=\"GFS GIf\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have a great Sunday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Sunday, folks. High winds and a hard freeze are dominating the weekend weather picture across the bluegrass state. As if this isn&#8217;t wild enough, the pattern for the week ahead looks like something straight out of wintertime, and could deliver some snowflakes to our part of the world. After 20s start the day, temps [&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-18566","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\/18566","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=18566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}