{"id":2157,"date":"2012-01-24T01:41:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T06:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2012-01-24T01:41:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T06:41:24","slug":"heavy-rain-to-usher-in-a-wintry-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=2157","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Rain To Usher In A Wintry Weekend?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good Tuesday everyone. We have some big weather news to share with you guys. Are you sitting down? Today is actually a calm weather day across Kentucky!! I don’t know what to do with myself and am having tweet withdrawal. \ud83d\ude09 Let’s not get too used to the pleasant weather of today as we have a surge of heavy rain coming our way and this should transition into a wintry weekend.<\/p>\n

Before we look ahead… we did have another tornado hit Kentucky Sunday night.\u00a0The NWS in Paducah confirms an\u00a0EF-1 tornado touched down\u00a0in Calloway\u00a0county. It had winds of 95mph and was on the ground for nearly 5.6 miles. This makes the 5th tornado to hit the state in the first 3 weeks and change of 2012. That’s just amazing!<\/p>\n

The weather of today looks good with readings mainly in the 40s under partly sunny skies. This should be the best day of the next week or so.<\/p>\n

A very slow-moving area of low pressure will develop across Texas over the next few days. This will throw an increasing amount of moisture our way from Wednesday through Friday. Light rain will arrive from southwest to northeast on Wednesday. The leading edge of this has the chance to start out as something frozen… especially along and north of the Ohio River. That doesn’t look like a big deal if it happens.<\/p>\n

The bigger issue from late Wednesday into Thursday will be the threat for heavy rainfall. This has the look of a widespread 1″-2″ rain maker, with locally higher amounts. The GFS is looking soggy…<\/p>\n

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This thing is loaded with juice and could cause high water problems for some areas.<\/p>\n

What happens\u00a0behind this storm as it begins to pull away on Friday? The models are still trying to figure that much out, but there should be colder air coming in\u00a0behind it\u00a0with a switch to snow possible. The GFS is advertising this…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The model may be a little too quick with getting the low that far north. The GFS\u00a0Ensembles average is for a slower departing low…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>That will be something for us to keep an eye on as many of the models have advertised a\u00a0switch to snow for a while now.<\/p>\n

That sets us up for a\u00a0wintry weekend\u00a0across the state. An arctic front arrive late Saturday into early Sunday\u00a0and carves out a hefty little trough.\u00a0I like the look of this system as I think it can dive in and try to cause low pressure to develop just to our east. If that were to happen… this would give us a decent shot of snow. That’s a big IF at the moment, but is something to watch for in the coming days.<\/p>\n

The GFS is hinting at that solution and the Canadian is looking the part, too.<\/p>\n

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We have a lot of weather to go through before we get to that point. I will have updates later today. Have a great Tuesday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good Tuesday everyone. We have some big weather news to share with you guys. Are you sitting down? Today is actually a calm weather day across Kentucky!! I don’t know what to do with myself and am having tweet withdrawal. \ud83d\ude09 Let’s not get too used to the pleasant weather of today as we have […]<\/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-2157","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\/2157","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=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}