{"id":46588,"date":"2021-01-06T18:55:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T23:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=46588"},"modified":"2021-01-06T18:55:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T23:55:52","slug":"a-light-snow-maker-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=46588","title":{"rendered":"A Light Snow Maker Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, folks. It&#8217;s another cold and dreary day across the Commonwealth as we watch a storm system rolling into the region over the next few days. This likely brings some snow to the state, but how much depends on the exact track of our low. The longer range continues to look much colder with snow chances ramping up.<\/p>\n<p>Before we look to the future, let&#8217;s take a look back at 25 years ago on this very day. Who remembers the Blizzard of 1996?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/ErEALOmW4AAqC4y?format=jpg&amp;name=medium\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That was a doozy and part of the great winter of 1995\/96, which is wound up as one of my secondary analogs for this winter.<\/p>\n<p>I have no changes on the system coming in here later Thursday into Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The HI RES NAM is showing our offshoot band of snow setting up farther north into the state, almost detached from the main snow across the southern and southeastern parts of the state&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NAM-2-3.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46593\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NAM-2-3.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The NAM doesn&#8217;t see that offshoot band, but is farther north with the main snow shield&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NAM-11.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46596\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NAM-11.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Model has been the most consistent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Canadian-2-7.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46591\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Canadian-2-7.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Short Range Canadian builds a couple of offshoot bands of light snow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Canadian-12.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46583\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Canadian-12.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The EURO&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/EURO-13.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46595\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/EURO-13.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The GFS continues to better see the snow band setting up across the state, but is still too fast and far south with the main low&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GFS-12.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46585\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GFS-12.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The GFS is now back to bringing the Monday system much farther north and west&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GFS-2-5.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46584\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GFS-2-5.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next system rolling in early next week continues to be one to watch, but the models will flip around a lot. Here&#8217;s the new EURO&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/EURO-2-9.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46594\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/EURO-2-9.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The long range continues to look like one that can unleash an arctic attack as we get into the middle and end of the month&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GFS-TEMPS-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46599\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GFS-TEMPS-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"702\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GFS-TEMPS-3.png 702w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GFS-TEMPS-3-300x211.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your evening and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, folks. It&#8217;s another cold and dreary day across the Commonwealth as we watch a storm system rolling into the region over the next few days. This likely brings some snow to the state, but how much depends on the exact track of our low. The longer range continues to look much colder with [&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-46588","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\/46588","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=46588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}