{"id":39806,"date":"2020-01-08T12:17:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T17:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=39806"},"modified":"2020-01-08T12:17:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T17:17:05","slug":"wednesday-afternoon-update-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=39806","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Afternoon Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon, folks. It&#8217;s a good looking day in the Commonwealth, but it&#8217;s all eyes on the wild weekend weather ride. Our potent storm system continues to look on track to bring a big time impact on the our weather and the weather of millions of people.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s recap:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scattered showers and storms develop Thursday evening and this action will increase into Friday, especially across central and western Kentucky.<\/li>\n<li>Rounds of showers and storms then work in from Friday night through Saturday night, bringing a flood and flash flood risk.<\/li>\n<li>The greatest high water risk continues to be across western and parts of central Kentucky.<\/li>\n<li>A few strong to severe storms will be possible on Saturday.<\/li>\n<li>High winds of greater than 50mph will be possible Saturday and Saturday night.<\/li>\n<li>Near record high temps are possible on Saturday, especially across eastern Kentucky. That\u2019s where temps can reach 70-75.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The winds are likely to be a major issue with this setup. Gusts of 40mph or higher are possible Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/GFS-6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39811\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/GFS-6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"971\" height=\"761\" \/><\/a>That&#8217;s nothing compared to the gusts coming Saturday into Saturday evening. The models are going for 60mph+ gusts for some areas&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>GFS<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/GFS-2-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39810\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/GFS-2-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"974\" height=\"759\" \/><\/a>NAM<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NAM-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39812\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NAM-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"977\" height=\"761\" \/><\/a>The Storm Prediction Center already has a low-end severe storms threat across western Kentucky on Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/SPC-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39808\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/SPC-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/SPC-3.png 814w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/SPC-3-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/SPC-3-768x524.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 814px) 100vw, 814px\" \/><\/a>The Saturday risk is just outside their traditional 3 day forecast period, but it edges the risk area into southern parts of the state&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/SPC-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39807\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/SPC-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"815\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/SPC-2.png 815w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/SPC-2-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/SPC-2-768x523.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will have the latest on WKYT starting at 4pm and then with another update on KWC later this evening. Enjoy the day and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon, folks. It&#8217;s a good looking day in the Commonwealth, but it&#8217;s all eyes on the wild weekend weather ride. Our potent storm system continues to look on track to bring a big time impact on the our weather and the weather of millions of people. Let&#8217;s recap: Scattered showers and storms develop Thursday [&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-39806","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\/39806","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=39806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}