{"id":22257,"date":"2017-01-25T01:57:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T06:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=22257"},"modified":"2017-01-25T01:57:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T06:57:03","slug":"winter-weather-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=22257","title":{"rendered":"Winter Weather Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good Wednesday to one and all. We have a cold front crossing the bluegrass state later today and this will kick off another round of gusty showers. This just keeps adding to our incredibly soggy setup of late, but winter is going to take the wet and turn it white.<\/p>\n

Temps ahead of today’s front will spike deep into the 50s on a gusty southwesterly wind. Those gusts can reach 30mph at times. A band of showers will zip from west to east across the state later today into the evening…<\/p>\n

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Northwesterly winds blow behind this front by Thursday. That’s when our first snow shower and flurry maker works across the region. This is the first of several expected to swing across the state through the coming weekend.<\/p>\n

The models continue to key on the Sunday system and try to ramp it up just a bit. Here’s the European Model…<\/p>\n

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We will have to watch and see how much that thing can dig. The more it does, the better the chance for snow with it.<\/p>\n

The GFS keeps spitting out a series of light snow makers through Monday. These aren’t overly heavy, but the model does say we get nickeled and dimed by these systems. Here’s the\u00a0Thursday-Monday total snowfall (not snow depth) from the GFS…<\/p>\n

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It has stayed very consistent with prior runs. As I have mentioned many times this week… It’s a little here and a little there from Thursday through Monday. This is not what will be on the ground when it’s all over. It’s cumulative during that 5 day run.<\/p>\n

Down the road, we find the GFS Ensembles continuing to show a very active winter pattern for the Ohio Valley over the next 2 weeks. You can clearly see that by looking at the precipitation totals from each member of the Ensembles…<\/p>\n

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If we then ask those same Ensemble members to narrow it down to what it thinks will just be snow, you get this for the same period…<\/p>\n

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Again, all of that is cumulative over the next 16 days. What can we infer from what the Ensembles have been consistently showing? A.<\/strong> We will likely have a very active storm track across our region. B.<\/strong> That will likely mean a lot of precipitation. C.<\/strong> Snow chances look good\u00a0with the potential for a winter storm or two to really get going.<\/p>\n

This doesn’t mean it’s wall to wall winter weather during this time. It does mean winter weather threats should be common with another winter saving the best threats for the second half of the season. For my taste, that stinks. I want spring, but Mother Nature could care less what I want. I will keep bribing her, though. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I will have a few more updates later today. Enjoy your Wednesday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good Wednesday to one and all. We have a cold front crossing the bluegrass state later today and this will kick off another round of gusty showers. This just keeps adding to our incredibly soggy setup of late, but winter is going to take the wet and turn it white. Temps ahead of today’s front […]<\/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-22257","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\/22257","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=22257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}