{"id":33799,"date":"2019-01-02T01:40:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T06:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=33799"},"modified":"2019-01-02T01:40:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T06:40:37","slug":"looking-down-the-weather-road-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=33799","title":{"rendered":"Looking Down The Weather Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good Wednesday to one and all. 2019 is off and running on a rather gloomy note with… Wait for it… Wait for it… More rain rolling in. This rain comes in a couple of waves with the first impacting the south and east today and the next one areawide by Friday.<\/p>\n

Where the heck is winter? As you know, my winter forecast was heavily weighted on winter arriving for the second half of the season. I’ll get to all that in a bit.<\/p>\n

Let’s start with today’s rain rolling into parts of the state. This mainly impacts the south and east, but a few showers can’t be ruled out across the rest of the region. Here’s your regional radar to track whatever shows up:<\/p>\n

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Thursday will find just a shower chance across the region as our next system gets ready to roll in. This is the system the models had well off the southeastern seaboard up until a few days ago. Now? It’s so far west that it’s another rain maker for our region…<\/p>\n

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That system misses it’s connecting flight and just cannot get any cold air into it.<\/p>\n

Once that goes by, temps turn mild for the weekend, before a greater change develops. That change means we actually slow down the southern storm brigade, leading to the northern branch to throw some systems our way…<\/p>\n

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That’s more of a back and forth pattern setting up next week, but those initial changes of slowing down the southern storm track are important and a sign of bigger changes ahead.<\/p>\n

For the past few weeks, a\u00a0lot of folks have been asking me about a Sudden Stratospheric Warming over the North Pole. This generally spits the Polar Vortex and sends it toward lower latitudes across the Northern Hemisphere. Much of that talk was based on model forecasts that were still a ways away from happening, so I didn’t even comment on it. Plus, the impact of such a split of the Polar Vortex isn’t even felt until a few weeks or so after it happens.<\/p>\n

Well, that’s now upon us and Dr. Judah Cohen has the illustration…<\/p>\n

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Happy #PolarVortex<\/a> split day! This is looking like the split that keeps on giving, long lived event with three distinct daughter vortices meandering across the mid-latitudes. If you are a #winter<\/a> weather enthusiast I can’t think of a better way to kick off 2019. pic.twitter.com\/KaCdMfb7QF<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Judah Cohen (@judah47) January 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n