{"id":23153,"date":"2017-03-17T01:58:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T05:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=23153"},"modified":"2017-03-17T01:58:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T05:58:30","slug":"some-ugly-weather-ushers-in-better-temps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=23153","title":{"rendered":"Some Ugly Weather Ushers In Better Temps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Friday, everyone. Today is shaping up to be a pretty ugly weather day across the bluegrass state, but it&#8217;s a day we must sacrifice in order to begin to crank up the temps. Milder air is slowly but surely pushing back in, with the potential for some downright warm spells lurking over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Temps early this morning will be tricky for parts of central and northern Kentucky. This may lead to a brief period of light frozen precipitation before plain old showers take over&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>I-71\/I-75 at Mt. Zion Rd.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Near Covington<br \/>\n<\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"cam-0-img\" title=\"I-71\/I-75 @ Mt. Zion Rd\" src=\"http:\/\/cmhimg01.dot.state.oh.us\/images\/artimis\/CCTV059a.jpg\" alt=\"I-71\/I-75 @ Mt. Zion Rd\" width=\"372\" height=\"259\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>I-275 at Mineola Pike<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Near Covington<br \/>\n<\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"cam-0-img\" title=\"I-275 @ Mineola Pike\" src=\"http:\/\/cmhimg01.dot.state.oh.us\/images\/artimis\/CCTV051a.jpg\" alt=\"I-275 @ Mineola Pike\" width=\"372\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>I-275 approaching KY 20\/Airport<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Near Covington<br \/>\n<\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"cam-0-img\" title=\"I-275 East of KY 20\/Airport Exit\" src=\"http:\/\/cmhimg01.dot.state.oh.us\/images\/artimis\/CCTV052a.jpg\" alt=\"I-275 East of KY 20\/Airport Exit\" width=\"371\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>I-75 @ Newtown Pike<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Lexington<br \/>\n<\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rwis.kytc.ky.gov\/itscams\/D07\/current_I75NEWT.jpg?1455760889888\" alt=\"\" width=\"379\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>US 60 @ US 460<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Frankfort<br \/>\n<\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"cam-0-img\" title=\"US60 @ US460 \" src=\"http:\/\/rwis.kytc.ky.gov\/itscams\/D05\/current_us46005.jpg\" alt=\"US60 @ US460 \" width=\"383\" height=\"275\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Temps will climb pretty much all day and may hit 50 by the evening hours. Winds will be a little gusty as well.<\/p>\n<p>As our front settles through here on Saturday, colder air filters into the region. The NAM afternoon temps show some upper 30s across the north and east&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=23151\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23151\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23151\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/NAM-8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"796\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/NAM-8.png 796w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/NAM-8-300x249.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/NAM-8-768x639.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That may be partly due to some clouds and scattered showers lingering. Can the mountains get in on a snowflake or two? Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday turns much milder with highs in the 50s for many, with low 60s in the west. Monday will see temps deep into the 60s with some low 70s also showing up.<\/p>\n<p>A weak cold front moves in Monday night and Tuesday with a band of showers and thunderstorms. That front never quite clears the region, but does knock the temps down several degrees by the middle of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Warmer air is poised then to surge in here after that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=23150\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23150\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/EURO-2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"696\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Temps can really take off late next week into the following weekend. It may also be complete with\u00a0 some strong thunderstorms during this time.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in temps should also lead to an increase in the thunderstorm action over the next few weeks. The Ensembles continue to show some good rains across our part of the world&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=23152\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23152\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23152\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GFS-Rain-2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"647\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GFS-Rain-2-1.png 647w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GFS-Rain-2-1-300x287.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have a great day and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Friday, everyone. Today is shaping up to be a pretty ugly weather day across the bluegrass state, but it&#8217;s a day we must sacrifice in order to begin to crank up the temps. Milder air is slowly but surely pushing back in, with the potential for some downright warm spells lurking over the next [&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-23153","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\/23153","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=23153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}