{"id":26443,"date":"2017-12-07T12:19:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T17:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=26443"},"modified":"2017-12-07T12:19:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T17:19:13","slug":"thursday-afternoon-thoughts-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=26443","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Afternoon Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good afternoon, folks. Flurries and a few snow showers have been dotting the skyline across the region today. These flakes didn’t show up on most models, with only a few picking up on them less than 24 hours ago. There’s a much bigger system the models didn’t pick up on across the south and east.<\/p>\n

This is a system that is ready to bring accumulating snow from the Gulf Coast to New England. Look at the snowfall forecast for the deep south…<\/p>\n

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Again, that wasn’t even a thought on the operational models until a few days ago. The Ensembles suggested\u00a0snow to the Gulf Coast more than\u00a0a week ago, and I talked about that very thing here on this blog.<\/p>\n

I’m talking and showing you this to try and get everyone to stop worrying about each and every operational model run and focus on pattern recognition and trends. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

As far as the clipper diving in here this weekend is concerned, I have no changes to my ideas. The Hi-Res NAM future radar shows our system diving in here, with snow showers filling in behind it on a northwest flow from Lake Michigan…<\/p>\n

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That’s likely underdone with the coverage and it only goes through 7pm Saturday evening. Northwesterly wind coming off Lake Michigan tend to be underdone on models, especially from a few days out.<\/p>\n

Some light accumulations are possible across parts of the state. Here’s the area with the best chance…<\/p>\n

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Light is the operative word, with that potential during the afternoon and evening. Winds will be VERY gusty with a full blown flizzard breaking out at times. \ud83d\ude42 Wind chills by Sunday morning hit the single digits at times.<\/p>\n

Clipper mania kicks in next week with additional snow threats showing up as early as Monday night. It’s also a VERY cold week shaping up.<\/p>\n

I will touch on all that with my next update this evening. Make it a good one and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good afternoon, folks. Flurries and a few snow showers have been dotting the skyline across the region today. These flakes didn’t show up on most models, with only a few picking up on them less than 24 hours ago. There’s a much bigger system the models didn’t pick up on across the south and east. […]<\/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-26443","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\/26443","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=26443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}