{"id":26907,"date":"2017-12-21T19:34:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T00:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=26907"},"modified":"2017-12-21T19:34:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T00:34:56","slug":"thursday-evening-thoughts-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=26907","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Evening Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, everyone. I don&#8217;t have a ton of time, but I wanted to drop by and talk about the wild weather for the upcoming Christmas weekend. From heavy rain and possible flooding, to some light snows, it&#8217;s a busy one.<\/p>\n<p>The high water threat is\u00a0 real and we have a Flash Flood Watch for areas of central and south central Kentucky&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=26904\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26904\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26904\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/special-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"906\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/special-1.png 906w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/special-1-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/special-1-768x414.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 906px) 100vw, 906px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That may be expanded later tonight into Friday as we see where the heaviest axis of rain sets up. Here&#8217;s my current rainfall forecast&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=26905\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26905\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26905\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/special-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"902\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/special-2.png 902w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/special-2-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/special-2-768x415.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 902px) 100vw, 902px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch the creeks and streams, especially Friday night into the first half of Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Cold air sweeps in, leading to a massive drop in temps from northwest to southeast. Some wet snows will try to mix in across the north and northeast late in the day.<\/p>\n<p>I still likely the light snow maker coming in for Christmas Eve into Christmas morning. Can we get this thing to put some snow on the ground? Yep. Here&#8217;s my current &#8220;odds&#8221; map&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=26906\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26906\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26906\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Special-3-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Special-3-1.png 905w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Special-3-1-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Special-3-1-768x429.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The last two runs of the GFS Ensembles show the spread across our region. You can see that well on the individual members&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>12z<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=26910\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26910\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26910\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GFS-snow-2-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GFS-snow-2-4.png 1280w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GFS-snow-2-4-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GFS-snow-2-4-768x614.png 768w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GFS-snow-2-4-1024x819.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>18z<a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=26911\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26911\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26911\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GFS-snow-3-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GFS-snow-3-2.png 1280w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GFS-snow-3-2-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GFS-snow-3-2-768x614.png 768w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GFS-snow-3-2-1024x819.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even the NAM is now picking up on the Christmas Eve light snow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=26909\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26909\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26909\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NAM-15.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"786\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will have another full update later tonight. Have a good evening and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, everyone. I don&#8217;t have a ton of time, but I wanted to drop by and talk about the wild weather for the upcoming Christmas weekend. From heavy rain and possible flooding, to some light snows, it&#8217;s a busy one. The high water threat is\u00a0 real and we have a Flash Flood Watch for [&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-26907","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\/26907","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=26907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}