{"id":32916,"date":"2018-12-05T02:24:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T07:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=32916"},"modified":"2018-12-05T02:24:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T07:24:07","slug":"watching-the-weekend-winter-storm-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=32916","title":{"rendered":"Watching The Weekend Winter Storm Potential"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good Wednesday, folks. A light snowfall is greeting many areas of the bluegrass state to start the day and that’s creating some slick spots on area roads. From here, it’s time to start putting all our attention into the weekend winter storm potential that is increasing a bit.<\/p>\n

Let me begin with the rounds of light snow working across Kentucky early today. This is putting down light accumulations from a coating to 1″ in most areas. Local 1″-2″ amounts may show up in some of the heavier streaks, but those are rather localized.<\/p>\n

Here’s a look at the Winter Weather Advisory to start the day…<\/p>\n

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Another weak system dives in here late Thursday into Thursday night. This should have a band of light snow with it, and some light accumulations are possible…<\/p>\n

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As far as the winter storm potential is concerned for the weekend and early next week, with each passing day, confidence increases of some kind of impact on our weather. If you’re a regular reader, this is a storm signal we have been talking about on the blog for more than a week already. The signal is the easy part… pinpointing the details is the hard part.<\/p>\n

Let’s begin with the area of greatest potential. This is a map I put together for WKYT before the latest computer model runs…<\/p>\n

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That’s a rough outline that will be adjusted several times in the coming days.<\/p>\n

As expected, the latest models are beginning to shake off their respective biases and are coming more into line with one another. The European Model is ridding itself of the convective feedback issues and is now showing a farther north and west storm system with a big hit on our region…<\/p>\n

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That’s a slow-moving storm system that would last from Saturday through early Tuesday. The end result…<\/p>\n

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The average snow map from the GFS Ensembles has been hinting at a more widespread and farther north solution for days now. The latest run is no different…<\/p>\n

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The most consistent\u00a0operational model has been the new version of the GFS. It has had this similar solution for days now with very few hiccups…<\/p>\n

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The GFS is finally coming around to this same look…<\/p>\n

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The Canadian has it too…<\/p>\n

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What is the takeaway from where we are right now? It’s looking more and more likely that a winter storm will have an impact on Kentucky’s weather. The extent of that impact remains to be seen and I’m still not sure where that greatest impact winds up. That’s going to be my focus of the next few days.<\/p>\n

I will have updates later today and can hopefully get a little more specific with this weekend system. In the meantime, here are your tracking toys to start the day…<\/p>\n

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Hamburg Area from WKYT Studio
\n<\/strong><\/em>Lexington
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I-75 @ Newtown Pike
\n<\/strong>Lexington
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I-75 MP\u00a0127
\n<\/strong>Georgetown<\/em>
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I-64 at KY-801
\n<\/strong>Near Morehead<\/i>
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I-64\u00a0MP 97<\/strong>
\nWinchester<\/em>
\n\"I-64<\/p>\n

Mountain Parkway @ MP 36<\/strong>
\nNear\u00a0Pine Ridge<\/em>
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Florence<\/p>\n

\"No<\/p>\n

Covington<\/p>\n

\"No<\/p>\n

\"No<\/p>\n

Louisville<\/p>\n

\"No<\/p>\n

\"No<\/p>\n

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\"No<\/p>\n

E-town<\/p>\n

\"No<\/p>\n

I-65 MP 36<\/strong>
\nNear Bowling Green
\n<\/em>\"I-65<\/p>\n

Enjoy the day and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good Wednesday, folks. A light snowfall is greeting many areas of the bluegrass state to start the day and that’s creating some slick spots on area roads. From here, it’s time to start putting all our attention into the weekend winter storm potential that is increasing a bit. Let me begin with the rounds of […]<\/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-32916","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\/32916","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=32916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}