{"id":62574,"date":"2023-12-19T01:54:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T06:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=62574"},"modified":"2023-12-19T01:54:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T06:54:40","slug":"dreaming-of-a-wet-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=62574","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming Of A Wet Christmas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Tuesday, folks. A sharp blast of winter weather is in and out of town fairly quickly, but it did give us snow and frigid temps. As we look ahead, we will be dealing with an increase in temps ahead of what may very well be a wet, not white, Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>The snowfall forecast map I put out Saturday night worked out pretty darn well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/SPECIAL-MAP-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62542\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/SPECIAL-MAP-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/SPECIAL-MAP-1.png 1000w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/SPECIAL-MAP-1-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/SPECIAL-MAP-1-768x461.png 768w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/SPECIAL-MAP-1-627x376.png 627w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/SPECIAL-MAP-1-440x264.png 440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Twitter feed has all kinds of snow pics and videos for your viewing pleasure: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kentuckyweather\">KentuckyWeather<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some lingering light snow showers and a few flurries are possible across the east and southeast, creating slick roads for several areas. Here are your radars to follow along\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-wrap\">\n<div class=\"post-content entry-content\">\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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Temps this morning range from the upper teens to low 20s with a wind chill near 10 degrees for some areas. Brr.<\/p>\n<p>Highs this afternoon reach the low and middle 30s in central and eastern Kentucky with 40 in the west.<\/p>\n<p>The focus then turns toward the next system moving in late this week a few showers rolling in to start the Christmas weekend Friday into Saturday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GFS-28.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62577\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GFS-28.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Temps are above normal during this time as we see an overall pattern change settling in. The long range models like the EURO Weeklies first suggested it was around this time we started to see this change take place. Then the ensembles jumped in with the operational models following.<\/p>\n<p>This change sends the greatest height anomalies well northward into Canada with an undercutting jet across the USA. This can fire up some hefty storm systems courtesy of some big cut off systems between Christmas and New Year&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GFS-12.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62581\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GFS-12.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"951\" height=\"723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GFS-12.png 951w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GFS-12-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GFS-12-768x584.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 951px) 100vw, 951px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The models will spit out some wild solutions with that kind of an upper level look so don&#8217;t get to excited with any particular run because I assure you it will change with the next run.<\/p>\n<p>Big cut off upper lows can create some big slow moving storm systems like the ones showing up on the GFS&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GFS-29.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62580\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GFS-29.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Christmas looks wet and windy with the chance for winter weather coming a day or two after that. This is the beginning of what may turn into a fun winter pattern into January. The GFS Ensembles certainly look the part&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GFS-2-16.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62583\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GFS-2-16.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll see you guys back here for another update later today. Have a terrific Tuesday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Tuesday, folks. A sharp blast of winter weather is in and out of town fairly quickly, but it did give us snow and frigid temps. As we look ahead, we will be dealing with an increase in temps ahead of what may very well be a wet, not white, Christmas. The snowfall forecast map [&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-62574","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\/62574","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=62574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}