{"id":27030,"date":"2017-12-26T01:47:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T06:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=27030"},"modified":"2017-12-26T01:47:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T06:47:20","slug":"a-frigid-pattern-as-we-flip-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=27030","title":{"rendered":"A Frigid Pattern As We Flip Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good Tuesday to one and all. Here’s hoping you had the merriest Christmas since Bing Crosby danced with Danny Kaye (That’s the clean version of Christmas Vacation \ud83d\ude42 ). Now, it’s time to focus on the remaining days of 2017, as we track\u00a0a prolonged period of frigid temps and snow chances.<\/p>\n

The first chance for light snow and flurries\u00a0zips across our skyline today and into early Wednesday. Think of these as light snow streaks coming from west to east. In the overall scheme of things, this isn’t a big deal.. I will have your tracking toys in a bit.<\/p>\n

Frigid air takes control behind this for the rest of the week. Lows by Wednesday morning have a shot at reaching singles in the far north. Wind chills may drop to zero or below over the next few mornings. This cold is so stout, it’s basically crushing the end of the week system.<\/p>\n

The weekend is a different story, with a couple of systems potentially impacting our weather.<\/p>\n

The European Model continues to blast an arctic system through the Ohio Valley, with snow developing…<\/p>\n

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The model then brings the arctic into our region, but it’s not quite as cold as what the other models are showing.<\/p>\n

The GFS has a light snow maker to start the weekend, with a bigger system rounding the trough and sliding just to our south to begin the new year…<\/p>\n

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I’m still not exactly sure how all that is going to play out, because there are so many players hitting the court. One of those players could be historic cold taking over parts of the country. That run of the GFS shows these lows for the first few days of the year…<\/p>\n

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Wind chills are borderline obscene on this run…<\/p>\n

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All of that is likely taking things to the extreme, obviously. It’s still amazing to see showing up on occasion.<\/p>\n

The Canadian has a very similar theme to the GFS, and is trying to get more of a system to work through the base of the trough to start the New Year…<\/p>\n

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It also has multiple mornings below zero around here, with brutal cold across the country…<\/p>\n

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We will see how all this shakes out in the coming days.<\/p>\n

Here are the light snow and flurry tracking toys to start things out…<\/p>\n

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