{"id":70937,"date":"2025-04-12T01:32:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T05:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=70937"},"modified":"2025-04-12T01:32:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T05:32:48","slug":"much-better-weather-rolls-in-for-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=70937","title":{"rendered":"Much Better Weather Rolls in for the Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Saturday, everyone. Much better weather is taking control of the weather for the weekend and that&#8217;s MUCH needed as many folks continue to put their lives back together after devestating flooding. This calm weather will only take us into Monday when the chance for a few storms shows back up.<\/p>\n<p>Temps today hit the 50s for many under skies becoming mostly sunny. 60 is possible in the west and south.<\/p>\n<p>Temps surge into the 60s for the entire state Sunday as milder winds kick in. There&#8217;s even the chance for a 70 in the west. I could see a small shower or storm going up on the leading edge of this mild wind, but most areas stay dry.<\/p>\n<p>Highs surge into the 70s for Monday as a cold front gets set to drop in from the northwest by Monday night. This may bring a broken line of showers and thunderstorms along and ahead of it and some of these may be strong or locally severe.<\/p>\n<p>The Storm Prediction Center shows this potential&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/partners\/outlooks\/state\/images\/KY_swody3.png?1744399385\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Much colder winds then crash in behind this system with a few chilly showers on Tuesday. The EURO shows this setup well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/EURO-4-2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70941\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/EURO-4-2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Temps should really surge later next week into Easter Weekend as we watch an overall milder pattern taking shape. Can we keep thunderstorms away for Easter Weekend? That may be a bit of a challenge, but we will continue to fine tune that forecast in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>The EURO Ensembles show more ridging in the eastern half of the country with troughs sweeping into the west&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/EURO-3-4.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70940\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/EURO-3-4.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That setup takes us into the start of the final weekend of the month and you can see how the temps on those same ensembles skew above normal&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/EURO-2-5.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70939\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/EURO-2-5.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a>The operational EURO shows some pretty big positive temp anomalies during this same time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/EURO-8.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70938\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/EURO-8.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Make it a great Saturday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Saturday, everyone. Much better weather is taking control of the weather for the weekend and that&#8217;s MUCH needed as many folks continue to put their lives back together after devestating flooding. This calm weather will only take us into Monday when the chance for a few storms shows back up. Temps today hit the [&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-70937","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\/70937","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=70937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70942,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70937\/revisions\/70942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}