{"id":21296,"date":"2016-12-16T02:17:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T07:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=21296"},"modified":"2016-12-16T02:17:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T07:17:24","slug":"getting-ready-for-a-fun-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=21296","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready For A Fun Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Friday, folks. If you&#8217;re a fan of wild weather, this weekend is going to be a fun one to track. Temps are going to spike and crash, winds are going to gust up, we could hear some rumbles of thunder, get in on a nice period of sleet and snow, then end things with another arctic blast moving in.<\/p>\n<p>Clouds will continue to thicken today as temps slowly climb from west to east. Light precipitation breaks out this evening and could be in the form of a mix at the beginning. With a frozen ground, we will need to be on guard for some local icy spots&#8230; especially in the colder valleys&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a breakdown of where we go from here&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Temps on Saturday will really take off with many areas surging into the 60s.<\/li>\n<li>Showers and some thunderstorms develop, with the potential for a line of weak storms during the evening.<\/li>\n<li>Arctic air then surges into the back of that line and switches it over to sleet, some snow and freezing rain. That happens from west to east starting late Saturday evening&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21294\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NAM-3.gif\" alt=\"nam-3\" width=\"1024\" height=\"786\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s an outside chance of thundersleet with this system. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>Light accumulations of sleet and snow will be possible across the entire state&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21293\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NAM-2-5.png\" alt=\"nam-2\" width=\"494\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NAM-2-5.png 494w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NAM-2-5-283x300.png 283w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That will combine with a rapid freeze of all the standing water, and create slick travel conditions.<\/li>\n<li>Temperatures drop through the 20s on Sunday with the teens showing up by evening. Lows by Monday morning will be way down there and could bring another round of single digits to the region. Much of that would be thanks, in part, to northwesterly winds coming off the deep snow pack to our northwest. Here&#8217;s the NAM for Monday morning&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=21295\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21295\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21295\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NAM-3-5.png\" alt=\"nam-3\" width=\"856\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NAM-3-5.png 856w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NAM-3-5-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NAM-3-5-768x470.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 856px) 100vw, 856px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian for the same time is even colder&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=21298\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21298\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21298\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Canadian-21.png\" alt=\"canadian\" width=\"890\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Canadian-21.png 890w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Canadian-21-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Canadian-21-768x457.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Funny thing is, the poor GFS sees none of this. The new version of it does, so that&#8217;s a positive sign.<\/p>\n<p>I will hook you up with another update or two later today. Make it a great Friday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Friday, folks. If you&#8217;re a fan of wild weather, this weekend is going to be a fun one to track. Temps are going to spike and crash, winds are going to gust up, we could hear some rumbles of thunder, get in on a nice period of sleet and snow, then end things with [&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-21296","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\/21296","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=21296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}