Good afternoon, gang. It’s a cloudy and seasonally chilly day in what should turn\u00a0out to be a colder than normal November in our part of the world. It’s all eyes on the big weekend storm system, threatening to bring high winds, strong storms and a few snowflakes our way.<\/p>\n
Folks, my thoughts on this system haven’t changed a whole lot over the past week. The usual timing and intensity issues are being ironed out, but this continues to look like a major storm system working into the Great Lakes on Saturday.<\/p>\n
It drags a cold front across Kentucky Saturday afternoon, with the potential for a line of strong to severe thunderstorms…<\/p>\n
The Storm Prediction Center is highlighting the potential…<\/p>\n Damaging wind is by far and away the number one threat.<\/p>\n Even without thunderstorms, high winds are going to be a player. Gusts of 50mph will be possible late Friday night into Saturday.<\/p>\n As the front slams through here, much colder air surges in, potentially catching the back edge of the departing rain shield. The NAM continues to show a few flakes mixing in Saturday night…<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/GFS-18.png\")
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<\/a>You can see Lake Michigan sending a plume of flakes in here\u00a0on that northwest wind. Doesn’t that look an awful lot like the flakes map the Ensembles have been showing consistently? Yep.<\/p>\n