{"id":64583,"date":"2024-03-27T01:06:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T05:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=64583"},"modified":"2024-03-27T01:06:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T05:06:09","slug":"looking-toward-an-active-easter-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=64583","title":{"rendered":"Looking Toward An Active Easter Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Wednesday to one and all. It&#8217;s a much cooler and calmer day across Kentucky as a cold front continues to push to our east. This calm weather lasts through the rest of the week before we see rounds of storms and a surge of spring temps arrive for Easter Weekend.<\/p>\n<p>We are seeing a mix of sun and clouds out there today with temps in the 50s for most of the state. Areas of the southeast may climb toward the low 60s for a few hours.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday starts with upper 20s and low 30s with afternoon temps in the 55-60 degree range for many. This comes with a mostly sunny sky, making for a really nice overall day.<\/p>\n<p>Good Friday looks even better with partly sunny skies and winds flipping around from the southwest and boosting temps into the 60s. This is ahead of a a surge of springtime temps arriving just in time for Easter Weekend.<\/p>\n<p>This is also when a weak boundary drops in from the north and slows down across the Ohio Valley. This allows for rounds of showers and storms to slip in from the northwest&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1-MAP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64585\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1-MAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"866\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1-MAP.jpg 866w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1-MAP-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1-MAP-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 866px) 100vw, 866px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Temps make a run at 70 degrees during the holiday weekend then surge a little more by Monday. That&#8217;s when another potent system sweeps into the region with more in the way of widespread showers and storms.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the GFS from Saturday through Tuesday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/GFS-21.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64586\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/GFS-21.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That could lead to strong to severe storms from late weekend into early next week and could also put down a lot of rain.<\/p>\n<p>The heavy rain potential is showing up in national hazards outlook from the Weather Prediction Center&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"shrinkToFit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/threats\/final\/hazards_d3_7_contours.png\" alt=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/threats\/final\/hazards_d3_7_contours.png\" width=\"1189\" height=\"919\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your Wednesday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Wednesday to one and all. It&#8217;s a much cooler and calmer day across Kentucky as a cold front continues to push to our east. This calm weather lasts through the rest of the week before we see rounds of storms and a surge of spring temps arrive for Easter Weekend. We are seeing a [&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-64583","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\/64583","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=64583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64588,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64583\/revisions\/64588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}