{"id":21338,"date":"2016-12-18T18:30:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T23:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=21338"},"modified":"2016-12-18T18:30:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T23:30:16","slug":"sunday-evening-update-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=21338","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Evening Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Sunday evening, gang. Some very light snow and flurries continue to fly across parts of central and eastern Kentucky, as we get set for a frigid night ahead. Speaking of ahead, a couple of systems are showing up as we get closer to Christmas. Can we squeeze some snow out of them?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s focus on the cold night before we look at the chance for festive flakes. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>We are likely to see a heck of a temperature contrast from west to east tonight. In the east, skies look to stay cloudy and that may keep temps only 20-25. Areas in the west and north may totally go clear, and with the air coming off a deep snowpack to the northwest, it can get bitterly cold with single digits.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian is likely too cold over the next couple of mornings, but it shows how that snowpack influences temps&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=21334\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21334\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21334\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Canadian-23.png\" alt=\"canadian\" width=\"623\" height=\"762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Canadian-23.png 623w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Canadian-23-245x300.png 245w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Temps moderate as we head into the middle of the week, but a weak system blows into town on Thursday with the potential for some flurries or a snow shower&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=21335\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21335\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21335\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/GFS-2-16.png\" alt=\"gfs-2\" width=\"374\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/GFS-2-16.png 374w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/GFS-2-16-263x300.png 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A much bigger system will impact our Christmas weekend. The exact impact remains to be seen, as we have to find out how strong the storm is and where it goes.<\/p>\n<p>The GFS Parallel shows it right on top of us with a temp spike and rain followed by a temp crash and snow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=21337\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21337\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21337\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/GFS-9.gif\" alt=\"gfs\" width=\"1024\" height=\"786\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The regular GFS is much farther west with that storm and is WARM with rain and maybe a backside snowflake&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=21336\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21336\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21336\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/GFS-GIf-4.gif\" alt=\"gfs-gif\" width=\"1024\" height=\"696\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to track this storm system as we inch closer.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll see you guys back here for a late night update. Until then, enjoy your Sunday evening and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Sunday evening, gang. Some very light snow and flurries continue to fly across parts of central and eastern Kentucky, as we get set for a frigid night ahead. Speaking of ahead, a couple of systems are showing up as we get closer to Christmas. Can we squeeze some snow out of them? Let&#8217;s focus [&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-21338","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\/21338","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=21338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}