{"id":39839,"date":"2020-01-09T12:12:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T17:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=39839"},"modified":"2020-01-09T12:12:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T17:12:05","slug":"thursday-afternoon-update-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=39839","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Afternoon Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon, folks. It&#8217;s a pleasant day in the bluegrass state as we get ready for our high impact system to blow into town for the next few days. This is going to be a big time wind maker that will also deliver strong storms and record high temps.<\/p>\n<p>Scattered showers and storms develop tonight and work across areas of western and central Kentucky. This will continue through Friday. The east and southeast looks to stay mainly dry. Winds through Friday afternoon can gust to 40mph or greater at times&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NAM-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39838\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NAM-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"972\" height=\"760\" \/><\/a>Those increase in a hurry Friday night through Saturday evening as gusts reach close to 60mph for some&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>NAM<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NAM-2-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39836\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NAM-2-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"971\" height=\"757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NAM-2-2.png 971w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NAM-2-2-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NAM-2-2-768x599.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 971px) 100vw, 971px\" \/><\/a>EURO<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Euro-2-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39834\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Euro-2-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"959\" height=\"760\" \/><\/a>High winds may cause damage with or without thunderstorms rolling through. But, it continues to look like a line of thunderstorms will develop and roll west to east across the state. The Hi Res NAM only goes through 7pm Saturday, but shows what I&#8217;m talking about&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NAM-1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39837\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NAM-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a>Strong to severe storms are possible with this line. It won&#8217;t take much for the line to bring even stronger winds down to the surface from above.<\/p>\n<p>Record high temps from 70-75 will be possible for many on Saturday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Euro-15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39835\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Euro-15.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"959\" height=\"758\" \/><\/a>This may go down as one of the warmest January days ever recorded in Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>Looking toward the end of next week, there is a growing signal for arctic air coming our way. Will that be the beginning of a pattern change?<\/p>\n<p>I will have the latest on WKYT-TV starting at 4pm then with another KWC update this evening. Make it a good one and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon, folks. It&#8217;s a pleasant day in the bluegrass state as we get ready for our high impact system to blow into town for the next few days. This is going to be a big time wind maker that will also deliver strong storms and record high temps. Scattered showers and storms develop tonight [&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-39839","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\/39839","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=39839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}