{"id":29691,"date":"2018-04-21T01:30:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T05:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=29691"},"modified":"2018-04-21T01:30:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T05:30:39","slug":"looking-for-some-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=29691","title":{"rendered":"Looking For Some Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Saturday, everyone. The weekend is off and running with very nice weather across our part of the world. The nice isn&#8217;t going to hang out long, as a series of ugly weather makers roll through Kentucky in the coming week. That means rain chances go up and temps go down.<\/p>\n<p>In the longer term, I&#8217;m seeing signs of hope for Kentucky Derby Week. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Today will feature a mix of sun and clouds with temps hitting the 60s for the entire state. Those clouds will continue to thicken on Sunday, with rain moving in to the west and far south later in the afternoon and evening. That surge of rain is from out slow moving southern storm system and will continue to throw rain at us into Monday. Another system then dives in from the northwest by Tuesday and Wednesday, keeping showers around&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=29695\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29695\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29695\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GFS-GIf-15.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"786\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The heaviest rains during this time will be across the southern half of the state&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=29692\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29692\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29692\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Euro-2-6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"916\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Euro-2-6.png 916w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Euro-2-6-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Euro-2-6-768x556.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gusty winds and below normal temps will be common as both systems roll through.<\/p>\n<p>The setup for the end of the week into the weekend isn&#8217;t looking much better, and\u00a0 at actually look worse. Check out this ugly system showing up on the European&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=29687\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29687\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29687\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Euro-8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"838\" height=\"981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Euro-8.png 838w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Euro-8-256x300.png 256w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Euro-8-768x899.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The GFS is very similar and even some&#8230; Some&#8230; I can&#8217;t even&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=29694\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29694\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29694\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GFS-2-4.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"786\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a very cold look coming from another deep trough across the eastern half of the country&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=29690\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29690\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29690\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GFS-7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"705\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GFS-7.png 705w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GFS-7-300x208.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As that&#8217;s happening, bigger changes are going on in the Northern Hemisphere, leading to the possibility of the pattern flipping to warm as we head into May. Watch how the western ridge comes east, with the jet steam allowing the west to turn chilly for a change&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=29688\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29688\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29688\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GFS-2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"705\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GFS-2-1.png 705w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GFS-2-1-300x209.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A pattern like that could bring 80s in the days leading up to Derby&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=29689\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29689\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29689\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GFS-Temps-7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"469\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GFS-Temps-7.png 469w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GFS-Temps-7-287x300.png 287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keep your fingers crossed on that pattern actually developing!! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Make it a great day and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Saturday, everyone. The weekend is off and running with very nice weather across our part of the world. The nice isn&#8217;t going to hang out long, as a series of ugly weather makers roll through Kentucky in the coming week. That means rain chances go up and temps go down. In the longer term, [&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-29691","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\/29691","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=29691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}