{"id":41168,"date":"2020-03-05T01:25:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T06:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=41168"},"modified":"2020-03-05T01:25:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T06:25:42","slug":"a-quick-shot-of-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=41168","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Shot Of Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Thursday, everyone. It&#8217;s another windy and fairly mild day, but a cold front looks to take care of that later tonight. That will bring a shot of cold air in here for Friday and it could even bring some flakes across the eastern half of the state. This will be followed by a milder pattern for the weekend, with more wet weather next week.<\/p>\n<p>5 years ago today, we were still getting slammed by the second of back to back historic snowstorms. Take a trip down memory lane&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?m=20150303\">The Day Before The Big Storm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?m=20150302\">Time To Get Excited<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today finds a mix of sun and clouds with temps making a run at 60 once again. A mix of sun and clouds will be noted as winds increase ahead of our evening front. There may be a broken line of showers along this front, especially across central and eastern Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s regional radar&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled\" src=\"http:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" alt=\"\" usemap=\"#largemap\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A strong northwest flow sets up behind this front late tonight into Friday. That&#8217;s likely to crank out some flurries and snow showers across central and eastern Kentucky. We may even see some light accumulations in the east with a lot of snow falling across the high ground of the West Virginia mountains&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GFS-Snow-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41172\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GFS-Snow-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"959\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GFS-Snow-1.png 959w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GFS-Snow-1-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GFS-Snow-1-768x608.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\" \/><\/a>Saturday looks much better with a cold start and better afternoon. Temps make a run at the low 50s with a mostly sunny sky. Sunday looks even better with highs reaching the 60s with more sunshine. Overall, the weather looks awesome!<\/p>\n<p>Rain and some thunderstorms work back in here by Monday, setting us up with another pretty wet looking setup. It&#8217;s also a milder than normal look, too.<\/p>\n<p>The GFS rain numbers for the next 2 weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GFS-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41173\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GFS-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"967\" height=\"762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GFS-1.png 967w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GFS-1-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GFS-1-768x605.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 967px) 100vw, 967px\" \/><\/a>As mentioned, temps average above normal during this time. Check out the 7 day temp anomalies for next week from the GFS Ensembles&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GFS-Temps.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41175\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GFS-Temps.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"970\" height=\"761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GFS-Temps.png 970w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GFS-Temps-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GFS-Temps-768x603.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/a>The 7 day anomaly average for the following week is even warmer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GFS-Temps-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41174\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GFS-Temps-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"970\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GFS-Temps-2.png 970w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GFS-Temps-2-300x238.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GFS-Temps-2-768x608.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/a>That&#8217;s a warm and stormy pattern taking for much of March.<\/p>\n<p>I will update things later today. Until then, make it a good one and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Thursday, everyone. It&#8217;s another windy and fairly mild day, but a cold front looks to take care of that later tonight. That will bring a shot of cold air in here for Friday and it could even bring some flakes across the eastern half of the state. This will be followed by a milder [&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-41168","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\/41168","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=41168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}