{"id":21383,"date":"2016-12-21T02:21:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T07:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=21383"},"modified":"2016-12-21T02:21:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T07:21:22","slug":"tracking-the-christmas-weekend-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=21383","title":{"rendered":"Tracking The Christmas Weekend Setup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Wednesday, everyone. We have slightly milder air coming in here and that&#8217;s a sign of things to come. This mild up will also bring rain into town just as Old Saint Nick arrives in the bluegrass state this weekend. That means no White Christmas again this year. Sorry, Bing.<\/p>\n<p>Before the weekend system rolls in, we have a weak cold front swinging across the region on Thursday. That can kick off some afternoon and evening flurries or even a light snow shower.<\/p>\n<p>From there, we get a healthy slug of moisture streaming in here late Friday into Christmas Eve Saturday. The leading edge of this can start as a touch of sleet in the north&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=21381\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21381\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21381\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/GFS-snow-5.png\" alt=\"gfs-snow\" width=\"586\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/GFS-snow-5.png 586w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/GFS-snow-5-300x165.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Locally heavy rains are likely into the first half of Saturday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=21380\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21380\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21380\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NAM-2.4.gif\" alt=\"nam-2-4\" width=\"1024\" height=\"786\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A half to one inch of rain is possible for some areas before Santa hydroplanes into Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>Scattered showers will then continue into Christmas Day as southerly winds begin to crank. This will blow milder air into the region from the south. Your Christmas weekend temps&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=21382\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21382\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21382\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/GFS-TEMPS-1-1.png\" alt=\"gfs-temps-1\" width=\"587\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/GFS-TEMPS-1-1.png 587w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/GFS-TEMPS-1-1-181x300.png 181w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The actual front doesn&#8217;t swing in here until Monday night and early Tuesday. A weakening band of showers will be along and ahead of it.<\/p>\n<p>The pattern remains very active after this with another storm showing up by the middle of next week. The European Model has a colder look with a deepening trough following it up to close out 2016&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=21388\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21388\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21388\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Euro-2-18.png\" alt=\"euro-2\" width=\"1259\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Euro-2-18.png 1259w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Euro-2-18-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Euro-2-18-768x586.png 768w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Euro-2-18-1024x781.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1259px) 100vw, 1259px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will update things later today. Make it a good one and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Wednesday, everyone. We have slightly milder air coming in here and that&#8217;s a sign of things to come. This mild up will also bring rain into town just as Old Saint Nick arrives in the bluegrass state this weekend. That means no White Christmas again this year. Sorry, Bing. Before the weekend system rolls [&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-21383","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\/21383","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=21383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}