{"id":32157,"date":"2018-11-06T03:25:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T08:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=32157"},"modified":"2018-11-06T03:25:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T08:25:17","slug":"a-cold-pattern-sets-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=32157","title":{"rendered":"A Cold Pattern Sets Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Tuesday and Happy Election Day. Our severe storms are now rolling east of the area, with gusty winds and colder temps settling in. The temps later this week will really begin to drop as early season arctic air invades the country. As a matter of fact, several shots of arctic air are on the way for the next few weeks. These shots may also bring the first snows of the season to some areas.<\/p>\n<p>Winds today remain VERY gusty and may hit 35mph or higher at times. Skies become partly sunny with a leftover shower moving through&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A weak system zips across the Tennessee Valley on Wednesday and may throw some chilly showers into the state. Highs range from the middle 40s to low 50s.<\/p>\n<p>The next system is a stronger one and will move across the area Thursday into Friday. Rain develops ahead of this system, with gusty winds and a temp crash behind it. That may spit out some snowflakes, especially on a northwesterly wind flow by late Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GFS-7.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32168\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GFS-7.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"786\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The GFS does show some flakes getting into the bluegrass state&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GFS-snow.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32167\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GFS-snow.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1100\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GFS-snow.png 1100w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GFS-snow-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GFS-snow-768x559.png 768w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GFS-snow-1024x746.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian does too, but in a different area&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Canadian-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32166\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Canadian-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1100\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Canadian-1.png 1100w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Canadian-1-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Canadian-1-768x562.png 768w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Canadian-1-1024x749.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That sets the stage for a very cold weekend with highs on Saturday struggling to get to 40 in many areas. Gusty winds make it feel even colder.<\/p>\n<p>The next system has even colder air pushing in into early next week. The models go back and forth on just how big of a storm system this push of arctic air can help crank up. The latest GFS is pretty progressive, but shows periods of light snow and flurries&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GFS-2-6.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32169\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GFS-2-6.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"786\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The prior run had a much strong system&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GFS-3-4.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32170\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GFS-3-4.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"786\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The European Model is close to having a big storm, but misses the connecting flight to &#8220;phase&#8221; town. It still brings a snow maker in here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Euro-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32171\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Euro-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"842\" height=\"983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Euro-5.png 842w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Euro-5-257x300.png 257w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Euro-5-768x897.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 842px) 100vw, 842px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s some incredibly cold air for this time of year and it even opens up the lake effect snows all the way into our region!<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t help but think this is a warning shot for the winter ahead. Some major heavyweight winter analogs have been showing up on my set list, but I wanted to see how they looked in November before giving them a serious look. Well, they are serious. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I will have another update later today. Make it a good one and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Tuesday and Happy Election Day. Our severe storms are now rolling east of the area, with gusty winds and colder temps settling in. The temps later this week will really begin to drop as early season arctic air invades the country. As a matter of fact, several shots of arctic air are on 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-32157","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\/32157","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=32157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}