{"id":29442,"date":"2018-04-04T19:37:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T23:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=29442"},"modified":"2018-04-04T19:37:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T23:37:23","slug":"winter-storm-threat-friday-night-and-saturday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=29442","title":{"rendered":"Winter Storm Threat Friday Night and Saturday Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good evening, everyone. I went ahead and put out a Winter Storm THREAT on WKYT earlier today because… Well… Why not? This threat is for Friday night and Saturday morning, with the potential for a swath of several inches of snow.<\/p>\n

I will get to that in a moment, but first we have a few rain and snow showers that may graze the north and northeast this evening…<\/p>\n

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A hard freeze is on the way tonight with readings in the 20s.<\/p>\n

After some decent weather from Thursday into the first half of Friday,<\/p>\n

things begin to change late Friday as a storm system rolls our way. Heavy rains will increase quickly, then we will see much of that going over to snow Friday night and early Saturday.<\/p>\n

Here’s my first “odds” map for the Winter Storm THREAT…<\/p>\n

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Obviously, the track of the low will have the main say in where the heavy snow band sets up. The risk areas can go a little north or south as we get closer.<\/p>\n

The WPC has a similar through process, but is a littler broader with the potential for 4″+ snows…<\/p>\n

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The European Model has a major hit…<\/p>\n

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So does the NAM…<\/p>\n

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The GFS is similar…<\/p>\n

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Temps by Sunday morning may reach the teens for areas that may have snow on the ground.<\/p>\n

For some perspective on how extreme this potential is, let’s use Lexington as the focal point. It will only take 1″ of snow to be a top 10 snowiest April on record and 2.9″ to crack the top 5. The top spot belongs to 1987 with 5.9″. That was from a storm that dumped 30″ in the mountains of eastern Kentucky.<\/p>\n

For temps, Lexington has only reached the teens on 3 days and 2 of those were from April, 1875, when record keeping was a little sketchy.<\/p>\n

Sigh. #temspring continues to be a downer.<\/p>\n

I will update things later tonight. Make it\u00a0a good one and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good evening, everyone. I went ahead and put out a Winter Storm THREAT on WKYT earlier today because… Well… Why not? This threat is for Friday night and Saturday morning, with the potential for a swath of several inches of snow. I will get to that in a moment, but first we have a few […]<\/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-29442","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\/29442","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=29442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}