{"id":722,"date":"2011-01-07T05:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.kyweathercenter.com\/?p=722"},"modified":"2011-01-07T05:54:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T22:54:00","slug":"rounds-of-light-snow-before-a-bigger-deal-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=722","title":{"rendered":"Rounds Of Light Snow Before A Bigger Deal Next Week?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good Friday everyone and welcome to the beginning of what is going to be a very harsh period that should carry us through the rest of the month. We are getting the party started with a few rounds of light snow that will be moving across the state into the first half of the weekend. This will lead us into early next week when our ideas of a big storm impacting much of the eastern half of the country are looking better and better.

Let’s deal with what we have going on in the short term first as it is looking rather active today and Saturday. Systems will continue to dive from the northwest and a fairly strong one will work across the state today with a streak of accumulating snows. This continues to show up very well and will likely drop a covering of 1″-2″ along it’s path. This is likely to impact travel today as untreated roads will become snow covered for some areas. Yet another nice little system will dive into the region overnight into early Saturday and could put down another inch or two for some. Follow the flakes here…

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Temps today will stay in the mid and upper 20s across the entire area. The system that moves through here early Saturday will be pushed by a blast of arctic air. Readings on Saturday may start in the low 20s then fall into the upper teens during the afternoon. Winds will be rather gusty today into Sunday leading to a much colder feel than what your thermometer is showing.

The storm early next week continues to evolve toward the ideas we have been throwing out. I continue to say the overall pattern argues for for a bigger deal than what the models are suggesting for the first half of the new week. The upper levels on the models are looking better and better and that is slowly transitioning to what they are showing at the surface.

Low pressure should develop across Texas Sunday and slowly roll eastward across the deep south. This is likely to be a weaker solution than the models are showing as much of the 500mb energy is likely to be well back to the west. This energy is likely to show up deeper and stronger on future model runs and we are already seeing this happen. As the first low skirts by to our south… it is likely to throw up enough moisture for the threat of snow to break out in the south Monday. This first low will slowly work eastward toward the Carolinas. The upper level energy to the west will begin to push through the midwest toward our part of the world and will likely spawn another low that works into the Tennessee Valley then into the eastern Ohio Valley by late Tuesday and Wednesday. Those two lows may then meet up somewhere along the east coast.

The GFS Ensemble Mean shows a similar solution…


This is something the Canadian Model has been repeatedly showing with each run for the past several days…


Once the low goes by to our northeast Tuesday night… the middle and end of the week looks to be a nice period of frequent snows as arctic temps settle back in here.

The exact impact the early week storm will have on this region won’t be known for another day or two. I am confident we will get accumulating snows from this… but I simply cannot say if it will be a few inches or several inches. Both options are still on the table and I am not going to make knee jerk reactions to each model run that comes out. I have in my head what I think will happen out of all this… but I won’t share it until I get more confidence it will actually play out.

Regardless… the POTENTIAL is there for some decent snows next week if things work out according to plan.

Let’s not forget about the shots of snow over the next few days as these may cause a few travel concerns. I will have more updates through the day so be sure to check back. Have a great Friday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good Friday everyone and welcome to the beginning of what is going to be a very harsh period that should carry us through the rest of the month. We are getting the party started with a few rounds of light snow that will be moving across the state into the first half of the weekend. […]<\/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-722","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\/722","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=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}