{"id":22775,"date":"2017-02-22T02:19:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T07:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=22775"},"modified":"2017-02-22T02:20:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T07:20:00","slug":"record-highs-before-strongstorms-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=22775","title":{"rendered":"Record Highs Before Strong Storms Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Wednesday to one and all. We have a split personality day taking shape across the bluegrass state. Rainy morning will slowly give way to partly sunny skies and much milder temps this afternoon. This is ahead of a setup that can challenge all time February high temps over the next few days, and give us some big storms.<\/p>\n<p>Showers will be likely out there this morning across the central and east, with slow clearing during the afternoon. Temps will be 70 in the west and near 60 in the far southeast, where the clouds linger longer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"full-wide\" src=\"http:\/\/gray.ftp.clickability.com\/wkytwebftp\/WEBTEMPS_STATE_650.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Temperatures on Thursday will rise into the low and middle 70s with a mix of sun and clouds. There is a very small chance for a shower or storm going up.<\/p>\n<p>All-time monthly high temps may be threatened on Friday. If we take Lexington as the focal point, 80 is the all time high from February 23, 1996. Highs on Friday should range from 75-80 degrees. That, my friends, is pretty darn awesome.<\/p>\n<p>This warm air is ahead of a powerhouse of a cold front moving in Friday evening. This may produce a squall line of strong to severe thunderstorms racing from west to east&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=22777\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22777\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22777\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GFS-25.png\" alt=\"GFS\" width=\"417\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GFS-25.png 417w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GFS-25-262x300.png 262w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Much colder air crashes in behind that with temps dropping into the upper 30s and low 40s for a time on Saturday. The GFS keeps showing a few snowflakes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=22776\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22776\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22776\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GFS-snow-3.png\" alt=\"GFS snow\" width=\"645\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GFS-snow-3.png 645w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GFS-snow-3-300x275.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A warm front will then lift northward across the region on Monday and that will touch off showers and thunderstorms&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=22780\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22780\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22780\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GFS-26.png\" alt=\"GFS\" width=\"927\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GFS-26.png 927w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GFS-26-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GFS-26-768x405.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 927px) 100vw, 927px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This will introduce another surge of very warm air that leads us into another potent storm system. This one could bring very heavy rain and strong storms our way by the middle of next week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=22779\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22779\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22779\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GFS-2-9.png\" alt=\"GFS 2\" width=\"1219\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GFS-2-9.png 1219w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GFS-2-9-300x116.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GFS-2-9-768x297.png 768w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GFS-2-9-1024x396.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1219px) 100vw, 1219px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Colder would follow that, with another warm up and storm likely a few days later.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve been saying, this is a very active pattern that will put down a lot of precipitation across our region in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>I will have another update later today. Make it a great day and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Wednesday to one and all. We have a split personality day taking shape across the bluegrass state. Rainy morning will slowly give way to partly sunny skies and much milder temps this afternoon. This is ahead of a setup that can challenge all time February high temps over the next few days, and give [&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-22775","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\/22775","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=22775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}