{"id":53343,"date":"2022-02-28T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T05:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=53343"},"modified":"2022-02-27T22:28:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T03:28:13","slug":"another-active-period-starts-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=53343","title":{"rendered":"Another Active Period Starts This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Monday to one and all. It&#8217;s the final day of February and that means it&#8217;s the last day of Meteorological Winter. With the first day of Meteorological Spring almost here, things look to be in pretty good shape as March comes in like a lamb. The lion part of it may be waiting to start this coming weekend.<\/p>\n<p>As we wrap up winter, let&#8217;s take a look back at one wild ride:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One of the worst tornado outbreaks hit the state on December 10th and 11th. 80 people lost their lives.<\/li>\n<li>Record warmth was common for December as the month turned into one of the warmest Decembers ever.<\/li>\n<li>Record highs were common, including Christmas day.<\/li>\n<li>Another severe storms and tornado outbreak hit New Year&#8217;s Eve and Day.<\/li>\n<li>Historic snowstorm hit the state January 6th. Lexington had it&#8217;s 4th highest single day snowfall with nearly 10&#8243;.<\/li>\n<li>January was the 7th snowiest January ever in Lexington and the 12th snowiest month on record.<\/li>\n<li>February started with an ice storm and brought several winter weather makers, flood makers and severe weather makers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been at this for a long time now, and this was the most active winter of my career.<\/p>\n<p>So, the quiet weather of right now is certainly needed and it looks to continue through the end of the week. Temps will be very pleasant for early March, so let&#8217;s carve out some time to get out and enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>The only drawback comes from a weak front that may briefly split the state with colder weather getting into the north for a time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FMpx-v0XIAM5kb3?format=png&amp;name=medium\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This calm pattern looks to flip back into a very active one starting this weekend and this may roll on for a while. I made this map Saturday, and it looks to be in good shape&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FMi7n5FXoAk5xVy?format=png&amp;name=900x900\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A big battle will be brewing during this time as the seasonal change to spring will run into a lot of resistance coming in from the north and northwest. That&#8217;s where winter will be looking to regain control. This pattern puts our region in the battle zone with several systems rolling through here and that&#8217;s how we can get in on a lot of precipitation. Check out how far above normal the GFS sees precipitation totals from March 5-15&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FMnwpxxXMAQzeUb?format=png&amp;name=medium\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The GFS Ensembles for the same 10 day stretch&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FMpx-v1XEAEMIkc?format=png&amp;name=medium\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The control run of the EURO Ensembles are WET&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FMpx-v0XEAEk2RG?format=png&amp;name=medium\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Come on, March. You can do better than that.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your final day of February and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Monday to one and all. It&#8217;s the final day of February and that means it&#8217;s the last day of Meteorological Winter. With the first day of Meteorological Spring almost here, things look to be in pretty good shape as March comes in like a lamb. The lion part of it may be waiting to [&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-53343","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\/53343","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=53343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}