{"id":33349,"date":"2018-12-17T12:19:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T17:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=33349"},"modified":"2018-12-17T12:19:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T17:19:43","slug":"monday-afternoon-update-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=33349","title":{"rendered":"Monday Afternoon Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon, folks. The sun is FINALLY back for much of the bluegrass state, but it&#8217;s all eyes on another big time storm system moving our way later this week. This one brings a lot of rain and wind to the region, with the potential for some backlash snows as it moves by.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The timeline on this storm is Thursday through early Saturday<\/li>\n<li>This storm system is massive in coverage and may impact every state east of the Mississippi River<\/li>\n<li>Rain and wind are likely across Kentucky Thursday into the first half of Friday.<\/li>\n<li>Rainfall amounts of 1&#8243;-3&#8243; appear to be a good bet, especially across central and eastern Kentucky. This may cause flooding issues to develop.<\/li>\n<li>Colder air may get pulled in behind the departing low, setting up a band of rain and snow that ends as snow late Friday through Saturday morning. I&#8217;m not totally sold on this possibility, but I like the chances a little more than I did yesterday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let&#8217;s check on the latest computer models to see what they are offering up. The GFS is similar to prior runs and does show some wraparound snows before this system moves away&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/GFS-43.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33347\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/GFS-43.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"786\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These rain totals would be enough to cause some, at least, local high water issues again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/GFS-Rain-7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33346\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/GFS-Rain-7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1100\" height=\"806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/GFS-Rain-7.png 1100w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/GFS-Rain-7-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/GFS-Rain-7-768x563.png 768w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/GFS-Rain-7-1024x750.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Model is finally consolidating the lows into one main storm. In turn, it&#8217;s seeing the wrap around snow potential&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/canadian-21.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33345\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/canadian-21.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"786\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Icon is similar to the above models&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ICON-8.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33348\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ICON-8.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"786\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll hook you up with an evening update. Make it a good one and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon, folks. The sun is FINALLY back for much of the bluegrass state, but it&#8217;s all eyes on another big time storm system moving our way later this week. This one brings a lot of rain and wind to the region, with the potential for some backlash snows as it moves by. The timeline [&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-33349","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\/33349","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=33349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}