{"id":35242,"date":"2019-02-21T19:35:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T00:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=35242"},"modified":"2019-02-21T19:35:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T00:35:11","slug":"thursday-evening-update-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=35242","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Evening Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, folks. We continue to track a big storm system rolling toward Kentucky over the next few days. This will bring the potential for flooding, flash flooding and severe thunderstorms. Buckle up because this is gonna be a wild ride.<\/p>\n<p>As expected, a Flash Flood Watch is now out for much of the region through Saturday night&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled\" src=\"http:\/\/gray.ftp.clickability.com\/wkytwebftp\/WEBWATCHES.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Flood Warnings continue for many of the rivers across the state&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled\" src=\"http:\/\/gray.ftp.clickability.com\/wkytwebftp\/WEBWARNINGS.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My rainfall forecast has not changed with a general 1&#8243;-4&#8243; showing up across the state&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35227 jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Chris-3-2.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 831px) 100vw, 831px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Chris-3-2.png 831w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Chris-3-2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Chris-3-2-768x433.png 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"831\" height=\"468\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new European Model agrees with my area of heaviest rain potential&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Euro-25.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35240\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Euro-25.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"978\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Euro-25.png 978w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Euro-25-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Euro-25-768x521.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 978px) 100vw, 978px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This would be enough to cause significant flooding and flash flooding issues.<\/p>\n<p>The severe weather aspect of this system is also going to show up later Saturday into Saturday evening. Damaging winds, large hail and a few tornadoes will be possible. Here&#8217;s the current outlook from the SPC&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/public\/state\/images\/KY_swody3.png\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition to severe storms, high winds will be a be a big factor and could reach 50-60mph at times. With a wet ground, trees may be uprooted.<\/p>\n<p>We need a colder pattern to take home and that looks to happen later next week and into early March&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GFS-41.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35241\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GFS-41.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"638\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, let&#8217;s track the heavy rain impacting areas of southern Kentucky&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/radar-large.asp?partner=netweather&amp;traveler=0&amp;site=KY_&amp;type=SIR&amp;anim=1&amp;level=state&amp;large=1#\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" alt=\"\" usemap=\"#largemap\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the evening and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, folks. We continue to track a big storm system rolling toward Kentucky over the next few days. This will bring the potential for flooding, flash flooding and severe thunderstorms. Buckle up because this is gonna be a wild ride. As expected, a Flash Flood Watch is now out for much of the region [&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-35242","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\/35242","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=35242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}