{"id":28909,"date":"2018-03-11T12:34:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T16:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=28909"},"modified":"2018-03-11T12:34:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T16:34:03","slug":"winter-storm-alert-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=28909","title":{"rendered":"Winter Storm ALERT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon, everyone. I wanted to get a quick update out to upgrade to a WInter Storm Alert for parts of the region. A corridor of heavy snow will develop from west to east later this evening and carry us through early Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The exact path of this heaviest band is still a bit uncertain, but it&#8217;s put up or shut up time in terms of forecasting. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m likely being conservative with some of the totals in the red, but here ya go&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=28908\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28908\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28908\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Special-2-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"816\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Special-2-5.png 816w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Special-2-5-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Special-2-5-768x430.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 816px) 100vw, 816px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PLEASE read the headlines attached to the map. Notice the wide range I&#8217;m leaving open, because I do expect some &#8220;jump&#8221; spots in there. On the flip side, some &#8220;thumping&#8221; spots will also be in there. All of those are impossible to pinpoint until the event actually starts to unfold. The ALERT does not mean everybody reading this will see a winter storm, but several areas are likely to verify.<\/p>\n<p>That is also NOT the final call. That comes later today.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the models, the NAM continues to be very aggressive, while trending a little north&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=28910\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28910\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28910\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/NAM-11.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"793\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/NAM-11.png 793w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/NAM-11-297x300.png 297w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/NAM-11-768x776.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The GFS is similar, but a hair north&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=28911\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28911\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28911\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/GFS-Snow-7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"804\" height=\"803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/GFS-Snow-7.png 804w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/GFS-Snow-7-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/GFS-Snow-7-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/GFS-Snow-7-768x767.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I like what the GFS is doing with some of the &#8220;jump&#8221; and &#8220;thump&#8221; pockets showing up. Just don&#8217;t expect it to show exactly where those will be.<\/p>\n<p>I expect the Winter Weather Advisory to be upgraded to a Winter Storm Warning soon for parts of the region&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"homepage_map\" src=\"http:\/\/maps8.pivotalweather.com\/maps\/warnings\/nwshaz.us_ov.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s regional radar to track the system&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Updates will come later today. Make it a good one and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon, everyone. I wanted to get a quick update out to upgrade to a WInter Storm Alert for parts of the region. A corridor of heavy snow will develop from west to east later this evening and carry us through early Monday. The exact path of this heaviest band is still a bit uncertain, [&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-28909","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\/28909","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=28909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}