{"id":57344,"date":"2023-01-03T11:57:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T16:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=57344"},"modified":"2023-01-03T11:57:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T16:57:46","slug":"flash-flood-threat-continues-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=57344","title":{"rendered":"Flash Flood Threat Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon, folks. Flooding rains and strong storms are slowly winding down out there this afternoon with only one more line to go through tonight. Beyond this, we find a more typical looking January pattern taking shape with another storm system blowing in for the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s talk about the current system before we get to that.<\/p>\n<p>Storms lined up from southwest to northeast across the state last night and this morning, putting down a tremendous amount of rain. Flash flooding has been fairly extensive across areas of western and central Kentucky. That&#8217;s going to happen with rainfall numbers like these from the Kentucky Mesonet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Mesonet.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57347\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Mesonet.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1021\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Mesonet.png 1021w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Mesonet-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Mesonet-768x390.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We did all of this without a Flood Watch being issued until well after the heavy rains had already settled in. This simply cannot continue to happen from our local NWS offices. It just can&#8217;t. Please change the culture, folks.<\/p>\n<p>The heaviest rain this afternoon will focus on the southeast with a broken line of storms developing across the west and rolling east this evening. There&#8217;s a low end risk for a few more strong storms&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/public\/state\/images\/KY_swody1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Colder air works in behind this for Thursday with some rain and snow showers possible for some.<\/p>\n<p>The next system for the weekend continues to show up stronger as we get closer, but the models are still trying to figure out where to put the rain and snow with this. The GFS offers a flatter solution with another system coming in behind it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GFS-4.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57345\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GFS-4.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Candian Model has a more wrapped up storm over the weekend&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Canadian-3.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57346\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Canadian-3.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will have the latest on WKYT-TV starting at 4pm and will drop by for another update this evening. Here are your storm tracking tools to keep you company&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/builder.zoomradar.net\/zoomradar_weather_map\/weather_page.php?key=dlFZs5IY4VCw7bK\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"seamless\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/radar-large.asp?partner=netweather&amp;traveler=0&amp;site=KY_&amp;type=SIR&amp;anim=1&amp;level=state&amp;large=1#\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" alt=\"\" usemap=\"#largemap\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Current watches<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/watch\/\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/watch\/validww.png\" alt=\"Current Watches\" width=\"582\" height=\"408\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/watch\/validww.png\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Possible Watch Areas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/md\/\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/md\/validmd.png\" alt=\"Current MDs\" width=\"582\" height=\"408\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/md\/validmd.png\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have a great day and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon, folks. Flooding rains and strong storms are slowly winding down out there this afternoon with only one more line to go through tonight. Beyond this, we find a more typical looking January pattern taking shape with another storm system blowing in for the weekend. Let&#8217;s talk about the current system before we get [&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-57344","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\/57344","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=57344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}