{"id":20829,"date":"2016-11-26T15:47:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T20:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=20829"},"modified":"2016-11-26T15:47:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T20:47:02","slug":"saturday-afternoon-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=20829","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Afternoon Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Saturday, everyone. It&#8217;s another chilly day in the bluegrass state, but my focus continues to be on heavy rain rolling our way by Monday. The pattern looks busy, and increasingly colder.<\/p>\n<p>The system moving in on Monday will bring heavy rain from west to east during the day into early Tuesday. My thoughts have not changed on this at all. Central and western Kentucky can pick up 1&#8243;-2.5&#8243; of rain, with an inch or under in the east.<\/p>\n<p>The next system developing along that front from Tuesday night into Wednesday is being handled differently by each model.<\/p>\n<p>The European Model has the heaviest rain with this across the central and east&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=20828\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20828\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20828\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Euro-28.png\" alt=\"euro\" width=\"1146\" height=\"953\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Euro-28.png 1146w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Euro-28-300x249.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Euro-28-768x639.png 768w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Euro-28-1024x852.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1146px) 100vw, 1146px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rain totals for both systems on the Euro&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=20827\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20827\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20827\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Euro-2-17.png\" alt=\"euro-2\" width=\"672\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Euro-2-17.png 672w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Euro-2-17-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Model on has a similar look with the second system&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=20824\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20824\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20824\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Canadian-14.png\" alt=\"canadian\" width=\"762\" height=\"959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Canadian-14.png 762w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Canadian-14-238x300.png 238w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The GFS is much more progressive, but that&#8217;s a well known bias of the model&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=20826\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20826\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20826\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/GFS-30.png\" alt=\"gfs\" width=\"1137\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/GFS-30.png 1137w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/GFS-30-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/GFS-30-768x318.png 768w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/GFS-30-1024x424.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1137px) 100vw, 1137px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adjust that westward and you have a similar look with every piece of data.<\/p>\n<p>A few snowflakes may show up on the backside of that system as colder air crashes in here from the northwest. As we get closer to the first few days of December, the models are indeed growing colder and colder&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=20830\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20830\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20830\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Euro-3-11.png\" alt=\"euro-3\" width=\"1416\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Euro-3-11.png 1416w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Euro-3-11-300x102.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Euro-3-11-768x261.png 768w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Euro-3-11-1024x348.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1416px) 100vw, 1416px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the setup from Thursday-Saturday with the seasonally cold air taking full control of the pattern. That&#8217;s a setup that can throw some snow showers and flurries our way, especially as winds become northwesterly.<\/p>\n<p>What about the system across the southwest? The models are now leaving that system cutoff from the main flow. If that&#8217;s the case, it opens the door for clippers to dive in from the northwest. The European has one late next weekend&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=20831\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20831\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20831\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Euro-4-5.png\" alt=\"euro-4\" width=\"418\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Euro-4-5.png 418w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Euro-4-5-259x300.png 259w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have a great evening and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Saturday, everyone. It&#8217;s another chilly day in the bluegrass state, but my focus continues to be on heavy rain rolling our way by Monday. The pattern looks busy, and increasingly colder. The system moving in on Monday will bring heavy rain from west to east during the day into early Tuesday. My thoughts have [&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-20829","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\/20829","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=20829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}