{"id":29720,"date":"2018-04-23T01:08:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T05:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=29720"},"modified":"2018-04-23T01:08:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T05:08:01","slug":"heavy-rain-starts-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=29720","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Rain Starts The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Monday, everyone. Rounds of heavy rain and rolling across the bluegrass state today, as a slow-moving low spins just to our south. This kicks off a very unsettled week, but I&#8217;m tracking a true spring setup as we open the month of May. Can I get a woot? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Let us start with the precious present and then hit the fast forward button.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rain is out there today, especially across the western half of the state. Rain totals since Sunday are greater than 2&#8243;-3&#8243; for some, leading to a local high water threat. Watch for a comma head of heavy rain to slowly work across the rest of the state through Tuesday. That could also put down enough rain to cause some issues. Track away&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/builder.zoomradar.net\/zoomradar_weather_map\/weather_page.php?key=9nNfA2mOMDiJ4LG\" width=\"560\" height=\"462\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"seamless\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gray.ftp.clickability.com\/wkytwebftp\/WEBWATCHES.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gray.ftp.clickability.com\/wkytwebftp\/WEBWARNINGS.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scattered showers may be joined by a few thunderstorms Tuesday into Wednesday. This action is from a second system working across the region.<\/p>\n<p>From there, a big upper level system dives in from the northwest for Friday and Saturday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=29722\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29722\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29722\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GFS-8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GFS-8.png 640w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GFS-8-300x231.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That brings chilly showers our way, to go along with gusty winds. The high ground of the Appalachian Mountains may see some snowflakes out of this setup.<\/p>\n<p>The chilly air will quickly be replaced by a major warm up, and that may start by Sunday. This leads us into Kentucky Derby week, with a big ridge of high pressure controlling our weather&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=29723\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29723\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29723\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GFS-2-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GFS-2-2.png 641w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GFS-2-2-300x229.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Temps can make a run at the 80s, but that trough in the west is going to try and kick east later in the week. That may mean a stormy pattern unfolds by Kentucky Derby weekend.<\/p>\n<p>I will have another update later today, so check back. Make it a good one and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Monday, everyone. Rounds of heavy rain and rolling across the bluegrass state today, as a slow-moving low spins just to our south. This kicks off a very unsettled week, but I&#8217;m tracking a true spring setup as we open the month of May. Can I get a woot? \ud83d\ude42 Let us start with the [&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-29720","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\/29720","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=29720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}