{"id":386,"date":"2011-03-11T03:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T03:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.kyweathercenter.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2011-03-11T03:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T03:50:00","slug":"flakes-and-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Flakes and Floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Friday everyone. From flakes to floods&#8230; this is a wild weather pattern that is wrapping up on this Friday. River flooding is going to continue to be a huge deal over the next several days and we will get into that here in a bit.<BR><BR>Winter gave us a little slap in the face late Thursday with snow across much of central and eastern Kentucky. A slushy accumulation was noted and the light snow will wind down across eastern parts of the state early today. You can track the last flakes out of town here&#8230;<BR><BR><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#\" s_oc=\"null\"><IMG class=radar_img_6x4 alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" useMap=#largemap><\/A><BR><BR>High temps today will range from the high 30s to low 40s&nbsp;in the east to the high 40s to low 50s in the west where more in the way of sunshine will be noted.<BR><BR>The weekend system is slowing down a bit and this will allow our Saturday to turn into a very nice day with highs well into the 50s with a 60 possible. Clouds will quickly increase Sunday with a few showers breaking out as a cold front swings in. This will knock temps down several degrees and there is a shot the showers end with a flake of snow by Sunday night.<BR><BR>A MUCH milder pattern is taking shape for the middle and end of next week and our temps should respond quite well. 70? <IMG border=0 src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/emoticons\/smile.png\"><BR><BR>As we mentioned earlier&#8230; river flooding is going to continue to be a big issue for the next several days. The Ohio River will continue to see significant rises with moderate flooding likely at most locations.<BR><BR>&nbsp;Here is a look at the forecast for the river at various points&#8230;<BR><BR><IMG style=\"BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px solid; BORDER-LEFT: 0px solid; WIDTH: 500px; HEIGHT: 400px; BORDER-TOP: 0px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px solid\" alt=\"Ohio River at Ashland\" src=\"http:\/\/water.weather.gov\/resources\/hydrographs\/ashk2_hg.png\" useMap=#AHPSmap><BR><BR><IMG style=\"BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px solid; BORDER-LEFT: 0px solid; WIDTH: 500px; HEIGHT: 400px; BORDER-TOP: 0px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px solid\" alt=\"Ohio River at Maysville\" src=\"http:\/\/water.weather.gov\/resources\/hydrographs\/myvk2_hg.png\" useMap=#AHPSmap><BR><BR><IMG style=\"BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px solid; BORDER-LEFT: 0px solid; WIDTH: 500px; HEIGHT: 400px; BORDER-TOP: 0px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px solid\" alt=\"Ohio River at Cincinnati\" src=\"http:\/\/water.weather.gov\/resources\/hydrographs\/ccno1_hg.png\" useMap=#AHPSmap><BR><BR><IMG style=\"BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px solid; BORDER-LEFT: 0px solid; WIDTH: 500px; HEIGHT: 400px; BORDER-TOP: 0px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px solid\" alt=\"Ohio River at McAlpine Lock and Dam\" src=\"http:\/\/water.weather.gov\/resources\/hydrographs\/mlpk2_hg.png\" useMap=#AHPSmap><BR><BR><IMG style=\"BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px solid; BORDER-LEFT: 0px solid; WIDTH: 500px; HEIGHT: 400px; BORDER-TOP: 0px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px solid\" alt=\"Ohio River at Owensboro\" src=\"http:\/\/water.weather.gov\/resources\/hydrographs\/owbk2_hg.png\" useMap=#AHPSmap><BR><BR><IMG style=\"BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px solid; BORDER-LEFT: 0px solid; WIDTH: 500px; HEIGHT: 400px; BORDER-TOP: 0px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px solid\" alt=\"Ohio River at Paducah\" src=\"http:\/\/water.weather.gov\/resources\/hydrographs\/pahk2_hg.png\" useMap=#AHPSmap><BR><BR>Check out this graphic to see just how much rain has fallen over the past few weeks&#8230;<BR><BR><IMG style=\"BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px solid; BORDER-LEFT: 0px solid; WIDTH: 630px; HEIGHT: 379px; BORDER-TOP: 0px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px solid\" src=\"http:\/\/images.quickblogcast.com\/0\/4\/8\/0\/3\/139967-130840\/RainArchive.jpg?a=11\"><BR><BR>It&#8217;s amazing at how quickly mother nature can balance things out. The problem we face is possible going too far the other way as I foresee a VERY active severe weather season around here.<BR><BR>I will update things as needed so check back. Have a great Friday and take care.<BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Friday everyone. From flakes to floods&#8230; this is a wild weather pattern that is wrapping up on this Friday. River flooding is going to continue to be a huge deal over the next several days and we will get into that here in a bit.Winter gave us a little slap in the face late [&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-386","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\/386","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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}