{"id":62704,"date":"2023-12-26T00:49:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T05:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=62704"},"modified":"2023-12-26T00:49:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T05:49:25","slug":"winter-weather-later-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=62704","title":{"rendered":"Winter Weather Later This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning, everyone. Christmas is in the rear view mirror and today is usually a down day for those of us who love this time of year, but let&#8217;s put a positive spin on things by talking about some snow. &#x1f601;&#x2744;&#xfe0f;Some of us may even see some snow on the ground before the week is over.<\/p>\n<p>Before we get to all that, let&#8217;s talk about today&#8217;s weather.<\/p>\n<p>We continue to see showers spiralling around low pressure to our west. These showers are mainly impacting central and eastern Kentucky today and it&#8217;s the east seeing the heaviest. As a matter of fact, some areas in the east may pick up another inch of rain today. That could cause some jumps on creeks and streams.<\/p>\n<p>Here are your radars to follow today&#8217;s rain\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 are deep into the 50s in the east today with the 40s showing up out west.<\/p>\n<p>This colder air then spreads east on Wednesday, but it&#8217;s nothing out of the ordinary. At the same time, the upper low to our west slowly begins to spin east and should bring some light rain and light snow mix into western Kentucky before the day is over.<\/p>\n<p>The exact track of this upper low is the key to our snow chances in terms of location and intensity. The NAM shows this potent upper level system spinning right on top of us Thursday through 7am Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/NAM-2-4.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62707\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/NAM-2-4.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the surface, you can see how the NAM focuses the snow across the western half of the state during this time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/NAM-3-1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62708\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/NAM-3-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Hi Res NAM only goes through 7AM Thursday and is picking up on this spiraling band setting up&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/NAM-19.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62709\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/NAM-19.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A corridor of thumper wet snows has a chance to show up along the track of this upper low, so we have to keep a close eye on that. Outside of the heavier bands of precipitation, we may see a mix of light rain and light snow as temps will be above freezing.<\/p>\n<p>This system will likely require a First Call For Snowfall at some point on Wednesday, but I have to get a better handle on how this evolves.<\/p>\n<p>Additional snow showers and areas of light snow should follow behind this upper low later Friday into Saturday with the potential for a New Year&#8217;s Eve and Day clipper with some light snow.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Model continues to be pretty steady with the overall look of things from Thursday through the start of the new year&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Canadian-29.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62712\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Canadian-29.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The GFS continues to have issues. That&#8217;s an evergreen sentence, btw. &#x1f61c; The model is giving us a completely different solution with each of its 4 runs a day. Here&#8217;s the latest version&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GFS-40.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62713\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GFS-40.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have some interesting analogs showing based on the model forecasts for the first week of January. The numbers in the bottom right hand corner of this image shows the top matching analogs for this time period. The top ten has a lot of late 1970s winters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Analog-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62715\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Analog-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"671\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Analog-1.png 671w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Analog-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Analog-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Analog-1-440x440.png 440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 671px) 100vw, 671px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>January 1978 shows up twice on that list as does January 1979 with January 1977 also making an appearance. Those January&#8217;s were as harsh as you will ever see here. Of course, that doesn&#8217;t mean this January will be anywhere close to those, but the fact they&#8217;re on the best match list is interesting.<\/p>\n<p>The pattern next week could feature a southern storm system that may impact our weather by the middle of the week.<\/p>\n<p>I will have additional updates later today. Make it a good one and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning, everyone. Christmas is in the rear view mirror and today is usually a down day for those of us who love this time of year, but let&#8217;s put a positive spin on things by talking about some snow. &#x1f601;&#x2744;&#xfe0f;Some of us may even see some snow on the ground before the week 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-62704","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\/62704","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=62704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}