{"id":68109,"date":"2024-12-17T11:50:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T16:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=68109"},"modified":"2024-12-17T11:50:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T16:50:04","slug":"models-finally-seeing-fridays-snow-showers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=68109","title":{"rendered":"Models FINALLY Seeing Friday&#8217;s Snow Showers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon, everyone. The forecast models are slowly seeing more and more of the light snow and snow showers on the way late this week into the weekend as a cold pattern settles in for the days leading up to Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Before we get to the winter portion of the forecast, we have another big time rainmaker set to roll across Kentucky. Another 1&#8243;-2&#8243; of rain is on the way later tonight into Wednesday as showers and storms race through the region.<\/p>\n<p>The future radar from the Hi Res NAM shows this well and also shows a few blue specks behind it all Wednesday night and early Thursday. Those specks would be some snowflakes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/NAM-2-5.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68112\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/NAM-2-5.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thursday morning flurries then taper off as we watch a clipper diving into the region from the northwest on Friday. Light snow and snow showers drop into central and eastern Kentucky from the northwest Friday and Friday night with lingering snow showers and flurries into the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The NAM only goes through 8pm Friday but it&#8217;s showing a nice swath of light snow and snow showers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/NAM-18.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68111\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/NAM-18.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The GFS is doing exactly what we said it would do and is now beginning to show some light snow and snow showers from this setup&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GFS-27.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68113\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GFS-27.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian has been well ahead of the other models in seeing this and it continues to see it well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Canadian-28.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68115\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Canadian-28.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some light accumulations should show up across parts of central and eastern Kentucky during this time.<\/p>\n<p>Winds are frigid over the weekend as this round of arctic air takes a swipe at us.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll throw you another update later today and I&#8217;ll be on WKYT-TV starting at 4pm. As always, I leave you with the tools you need to track the rain and storms in from t<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/x-hv1.pivotalweather.com\/maps\/warnings\/nwshaz.us_ov.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/x-hv1.pivotalweather.com\/maps\/warnings\/nwshaz.us_ov.png\" \/><\/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>Have a great afternoon and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon, everyone. The forecast models are slowly seeing more and more of the light snow and snow showers on the way late this week into the weekend as a cold pattern settles in for the days leading up to Christmas. Before we get to the winter portion of the forecast, we have another big [&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-68109","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\/68109","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=68109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68116,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68109\/revisions\/68116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}