{"id":27066,"date":"2017-12-27T02:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T07:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=27066"},"modified":"2017-12-27T02:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T07:14:00","slug":"a-bitterly-cold-pattern-settles-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=27066","title":{"rendered":"A Bitterly Cold Pattern Settles In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Wednesday, everyone. Temps are in the tank out there today, and this is only the beginning of a bitterly cold period of weather across the region. As a matter of fact, this is a headline making winter pattern developing for much of the country.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the bitter cold, we have several snow chances to track, including the New Year&#8217;s weekend threat.<\/p>\n<p>In the short-term, temps out there today start in the single digits in the north, with low and middle teens elsewhere. Wind chill readings will be below zero for several areas. Afternoon highs may not get out of the teens north, with low and middle 20s south. Those same gusty winds will make it feel much colder.<\/p>\n<p>The weekend setup will feature bitterly cold air coming in here, and likely putting down some snow. The European Model is delayed tonight, so I didn&#8217;t get a chance to look at it before this update. Without seeing the European, it&#8217;s difficult to get too specific.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Model is trending closer to what the Euro has been showing for several days now. It has a swath of arctic snows Friday night into Saturday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=27068\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27068\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27068\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Canadian-21.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"836\" height=\"977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Canadian-21.png 836w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Canadian-21-257x300.png 257w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Canadian-21-768x898.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 836px) 100vw, 836px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Accumulating snows would show up with that,\u00a0complete with 30mph or greater winds.<\/p>\n<p>The GFS is coming around to that, with a stronger system than earlier runs showing up for Friday night&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=27069\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27069\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27069\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GFS-47.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"836\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GFS-47.png 836w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GFS-47-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GFS-47-768x452.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 836px) 100vw, 836px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The GFS still has a system coming behind it, but the cold is crushing it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=27070\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27070\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27070\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GFS-2-37.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1386\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GFS-2-37.png 1386w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GFS-2-37-300x106.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GFS-2-37-768x272.png 768w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GFS-2-37-1024x362.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1386px) 100vw, 1386px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bitter cold is impressive, with the Canadian Model going nuts later this weekend into early in the New Year&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=27072\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27072\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27072\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Canadian-2-8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"849\" height=\"952\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Canadian-2-8.png 849w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Canadian-2-8-268x300.png 268w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Canadian-2-8-768x861.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That is VERY likely too extreme, but, if we just take add 10 degrees to those numbers, it&#8217;s still crazy.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian also is trending toward the European Model having more of a storm coming from the south a few days later&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=27074\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27074\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27074\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/canadian-17.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"786\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regardless, that&#8217;s another bitterly cold air mass coming behind that.<\/p>\n<p>The GFS is wall to wall bitterly cold over the next 2 weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=27075\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27075\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27075\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GFS-GIf-24.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"786\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For instance, this run of the GFS does never cracks the freezing mark in Lexington over the next 2 weeks. That&#8217;s impressive, my friends.<\/p>\n<p>I will update things later today, so check back.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great one and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Wednesday, everyone. Temps are in the tank out there today, and this is only the beginning of a bitterly cold period of weather across the region. As a matter of fact, this is a headline making winter pattern developing for much of the country. In addition to the bitter cold, we have several snow [&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-27066","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\/27066","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=27066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}