{"id":47132,"date":"2021-01-26T12:04:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T17:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=47132"},"modified":"2021-01-26T12:04:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T17:04:28","slug":"first-call-for-snowfall-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=47132","title":{"rendered":"First Call For Snowfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon, everyone. I wanted to go ahead and drop by a little earlier than normal to talk about tomorrow&#8217;s snow system and to throw out a First Call For Snowfall map. Our system seems to be pretty well behaved, but there are some signs this may end up a little stronger before all is said and done.<\/p>\n<p>Snow develops across western Kentucky and moves east Wednesday into Wednesday night. This looks to increase in coverage and intensity the farther east it gets. Here&#8217;s my First Call For Snowfall&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SPECIAL-MAP-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47130\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SPECIAL-MAP-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"971\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SPECIAL-MAP-4.png 971w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SPECIAL-MAP-4-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SPECIAL-MAP-4-768x450.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 971px) 100vw, 971px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, this is the First Call and I&#8217;m sure I will have to modify this later in the day as our system comes into better focus. If anything, the potential is there to expand that 2&#8243;-4&#8243; farther north and west into the state.<\/p>\n<p>This is something the GFS is really hinting at&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GFS-SNOW-34.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47127\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GFS-SNOW-34.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"963\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GFS-SNOW-34.png 963w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GFS-SNOW-34-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GFS-SNOW-34-768x605.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 963px) 100vw, 963px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The average of the 21 member GFS Ensembles are even more emphatic about this potential&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GFS-SNOW-2-11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47131\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GFS-SNOW-2-11.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"961\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GFS-SNOW-2-11.png 961w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GFS-SNOW-2-11-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GFS-SNOW-2-11-768x607.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 961px) 100vw, 961px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian is also on it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Canadian-2-6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47125\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Canadian-2-6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"959\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Canadian-2-6.png 959w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Canadian-2-6-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Canadian-2-6-768x608.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Short Range Canadian&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Canadian-24.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47126\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Canadian-24.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Canadian-24.png 960w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Canadian-24-300x238.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Canadian-24-768x609.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The NAM Fam is a little more blotchy looking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NAM-24.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47129\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NAM-24.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"965\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NAM-24.png 965w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NAM-24-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NAM-24-768x605.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 965px) 100vw, 965px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NAM-2-12.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47128\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NAM-2-12.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"972\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NAM-2-12.png 972w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NAM-2-12-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NAM-2-12-768x600.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 972px) 100vw, 972px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This will likely become a high impact system for travel. Even if we get melting flakes on roads to start, a rapid drop in temps will cause a quick freeze up of all that water on roads.<\/li>\n<li>Some areas may have snow covered roads for a while.<\/li>\n<li>Temps drop through the 20s as the snow starts and wind up in the teens by Thursday morning.<\/li>\n<li>Single digit wind chills are a good bet by Thursday morning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The weekend setup continues to look like a snow\/mess maker to rain then back to snow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>GFS<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GFS-51.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47133\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GFS-51.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not fully sold on the front end snow later Saturday, but I&#8217;m loving the look from Sunday night through Tuesday. That setup can produce some big time northwest flow snows across central and eastern Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>I will have the latest on WKYT-TV starting at 4pm and will update the snow map as needed on air through the evening. I will also have another full KWC update this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Have a good one and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon, everyone. I wanted to go ahead and drop by a little earlier than normal to talk about tomorrow&#8217;s snow system and to throw out a First Call For Snowfall map. Our system seems to be pretty well behaved, but there are some signs this may end up a little stronger before all is [&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-47132","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\/47132","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=47132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}