{"id":48181,"date":"2021-03-04T01:17:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T06:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=48181"},"modified":"2021-03-04T01:17:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T06:17:33","slug":"typical-march-temp-swings-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=48181","title":{"rendered":"Typical March Temp Swings Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Thursday to one and all. It&#8217;s another dry day in the bluegrass state as a weak cold front drops in from the northeast. This has zero moisture to work with, but it will bring a seasonable brand of chill over the next few days. This will be followed by a case of spring fever and highlights some big temp swings setting up into the middle of the month.<\/p>\n<p>The forecast through the weekend hasn&#8217;t changed, so let&#8217;s look beyond that.<\/p>\n<p>Next week features a big ridge of high pressure flexing across the eastern half of the country, bringing much milder air into Kentucky. Temps can make a run at 70 on a few occasions. By the second half of the week, we are likely to see a bowling ball looking upper low work across the Mississippi Valley with potential severe weather into the region.<\/p>\n<p>Is this a true start to spring? No.<\/p>\n<p>We may very well see a mid-month return of winter in this part of the world.<\/p>\n<p>The EURO Ensembles are certainly trending in that direction. Watch how next week&#8217;s ridge gets replaced by a trough into the following week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/EURO-1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48176\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/EURO-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The control run of the EURO Ensembles is even stronger with the trough&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/EURO-2-1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48175\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/EURO-2-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pattern may then turn wetter again by from late next week into the following week. The EURO Ensembles rainfall over the next 2 weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Euro-2-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48178\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Euro-2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"966\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Euro-2-1.png 966w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Euro-2-1-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Euro-2-1-768x603.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 966px) 100vw, 966px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you consider it doesn&#8217;t rain around here for the first week of that, those are some big numbers for week two.<\/p>\n<p>The same can be said of the GFS Ensembles&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GFS-Rain.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48180\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GFS-Rain.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"970\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GFS-Rain.png 970w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GFS-Rain-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GFS-Rain-768x602.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Ensembles are also indicating the potential for some flake action in that second week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>EURO<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GFS-snow.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48179\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GFS-snow.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GFS-snow.png 962w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GFS-snow-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GFS-snow-768x605.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GFS<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Euro-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48177\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Euro-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"956\" height=\"761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Euro-1.png 956w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Euro-1-300x239.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Euro-1-768x611.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 956px) 100vw, 956px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>#TeamSpring says no thanks. &#x1f60e;<\/p>\n<p>Have a great day and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Thursday to one and all. It&#8217;s another dry day in the bluegrass state as a weak cold front drops in from the northeast. This has zero moisture to work with, but it will bring a seasonable brand of chill over the next few days. This will be followed by a case of spring fever [&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-48181","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\/48181","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=48181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}