{"id":62820,"date":"2023-12-31T01:51:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T06:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=62820"},"modified":"2023-12-31T01:51:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T06:51:16","slug":"a-few-flakes-to-start-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=62820","title":{"rendered":"A Few Flakes To Start 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Sunday and Happy New Year! It&#8217;s the final day of 2023 and we are tracking a cold front into the region. This blows in with colder air and a few snow showers and flurries for New Year&#8217;s Eve and New Year&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Before this front arrives from the northwest, temps spike into the 40s across central and eastern Kentucky through early afternoon. 50 is possible in the south and east. This cold front then sweeps in here this afternoon and evening and may have a broken band of rain and snow showers ahead of it. Behind it comes a few snow showers and flurries that will linger into New Year&#8217;s Day across central and eastern Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the HRRR Future Radar from 4pm today through 7pm Monday&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/HRRR-10.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62821\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/HRRR-10.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your friendly Kentucky weather radars are her and on duty for the closing hours of the day\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>Gusty winds will combine with crashing temps through the 30s to create cold wind chills with upper teens showing up as the clock hits midnight and we usher in 2024&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/NAM-28.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62822\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/NAM-28.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have to watch the setup from Wednesday through next weekend as we follow two southern stream storm systems and how they may or may not interact with the northern branch of the jet stream. The firsts system to watch is Wednesday into Thursday with the second one coming next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian is back to showing a little better connection on the first one and a farther south and east tracking second system&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Canadian-38.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62824\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Canadian-38.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The GFS has a much colder push with this first system, keeping the storm system far to the south. That cold air brings some light snow in here. The second system on the GFS looks all kinds of funky with the bias of the GFS putting too much emphasis on the northern low. Watch for the model to trend weaker with that and stronger with the southern system&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GFS-47.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62825\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GFS-47.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pattern after this is one that can turn rather nasty for much of the country as arctic air gets involved. Don&#8217;t pay attention to individual runs showing storm tracks as they will all trend east in time.<\/p>\n<p>This is a full blown trough with arctic air at showing up on the Canadian&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Canadian-2-9.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62827\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Canadian-2-9.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And on the GFS&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GFS-2-26.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62828\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GFS-2-26.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a pattern that can go to the extreme with arctic air and an active southern storm track.<\/p>\n<p>I will have another update later today, so check back. Have a Happy New Year&#8217;s Eve and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Sunday and Happy New Year! It&#8217;s the final day of 2023 and we are tracking a cold front into the region. This blows in with colder air and a few snow showers and flurries for New Year&#8217;s Eve and New Year&#8217;s Day. Before this front arrives from the northwest, temps spike into the 40s [&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-62820","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\/62820","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=62820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}