{"id":22984,"date":"2017-03-08T02:25:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T07:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=22984"},"modified":"2017-03-08T02:25:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T07:25:53","slug":"tracking-the-weekend-winter-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=22984","title":{"rendered":"Tracking The Weekend Winter Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Wednesday, everyone. We have some very windy and mild weather for the next few days, but that&#8217;s not what you guys are looking for. It&#8217;s all about the potential for winter weather as we head into the upcoming weekend and early next week.<\/p>\n<p>Winds will be very gusty out there today with temps in the upper 50s to low 60s. Those gusty winds will help boost temps into the 60s by Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A quick-hitting system moves in here early Friday with gusty showers and a big drop in temps. It&#8217;s possible to see a few flakes as the colder air moves in. That cold air then sets the stage for a potential winter weather maker this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The exact path and strength of this storm system is the determining factor on how much snow, if any, you get outside your house. The models have been jumping around a bit on recent runs, and that&#8217;s to be expected.<\/p>\n<p>The new GFS is back to showing a healthy winter storm for much of the state Saturday and Sunday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=22979\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22979\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22979\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/gfs.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"786\" \/><\/a>The snowfall map for that run shows a healthy hit for Kentucky into the Mid Atlantic states&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=22981\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22981\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22981\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GFS-Snow-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"649\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GFS-Snow-1.png 649w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GFS-Snow-1-300x213.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The European Model does not agree with that and continues to be weaker and farther south with a swath of accumulating snow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=22987\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22987\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22987\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Euro-2-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"659\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Euro-2-3.png 659w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Euro-2-3-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Model continues to be the weakest and farthest south model&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=22983\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22983\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22983\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Canadian-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Canadian-3.png 613w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Canadian-3-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/a>There is another system diving in here early next week. There is a decent chance for this thing to really dig in and amplify into a big system across the eastern half of the country. Here&#8217;s the GFS&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=22980\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22980\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22980\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/gfs-2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"786\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It won&#8217;t be until Thursday that we can finally get a full grasp on what our weekend system should bring our way.<\/p>\n<p>I will have updates later today, so check back. Make it a good one and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Wednesday, everyone. We have some very windy and mild weather for the next few days, but that&#8217;s not what you guys are looking for. It&#8217;s all about the potential for winter weather as we head into the upcoming weekend and early next week. Winds will be very gusty out there today with temps in [&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-22984","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\/22984","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=22984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}