{"id":74605,"date":"2025-12-11T19:19:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=74605"},"modified":"2025-12-11T19:19:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:19:20","slug":"winter-storm-warning-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=74605","title":{"rendered":"Winter Storm Warning Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, everyone. A Winter Storm Warning is out for parts of central and northern Kentucky with a Winter Weather Advisory out for many areas. This is the first of two winter storms to impact our region over the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at the current Winter Weather Alerts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/webpubcontent.gray.tv\/wkyt\/WEBWATCHES.jpg\" alt=\"Watches\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still concerned about this thing coming in a bit farther south as that high pressure to the north is just a tad stronger than the models have been thinking. Given that, I tightened up the band of best snows and gave more wiggle room for some snows farther south. Here&#8217;s the Latest Call for Snowfall&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2-MAP-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74614\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2-MAP-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"806\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2-MAP-5.jpg 806w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2-MAP-5-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2-MAP-5-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many of the forecast models are picking up on this southward trend&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EURO-8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74609\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EURO-8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"961\" height=\"756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EURO-8.png 961w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EURO-8-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EURO-8-768x604.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 961px) 100vw, 961px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GFS-18.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74612\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GFS-18.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"965\" height=\"755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GFS-18.png 965w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GFS-18-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GFS-18-768x601.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 965px) 100vw, 965px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The area from Covington to Ashland may wind up with lighter snows as the best banding sets up to your south.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t a major winter storm by any means, but roads will be a mess tonight and early Friday for many. That goes for areas getting an inch of snow or the local areas that push the higher end of the envelope.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also out with a First Call for Snowfall on the weekend system&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1-MAP-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74613\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1-MAP-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1-MAP-5.jpg 802w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1-MAP-5-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1-MAP-5-768x428.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The north and northeast should do the best in this scenario with lighter amounts the farther south and southwest you go. I like what the Euro is doing with this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EURO-2-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74610\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EURO-2-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"965\" height=\"753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EURO-2-4.png 965w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EURO-2-4-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EURO-2-4-768x599.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 965px) 100vw, 965px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bitterly cold temps follow that up Saturday evening as arctic air surges in. This wind chill animation starts at 7pm Saturday and goes through Sunday morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EURO-20.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74607\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EURO-20.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s brutal and those brutal wind chills hang around the rest of Sunday into Monday morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EURO-2-13.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74608\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EURO-2-13.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Actual low temps Sunday and Monday can drop to -5 to 5 above. Highs Sunday are mainly in the teens.<\/p>\n<p>Updates will come your way throughout the day, so keep checking back. We will have full team coverage on WKYT-TV starting at 10pm tonight. I\u2019ll also have a few updates on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChrisBaileyWKYT\">Meteorologist Chris Bailey Facebook Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Until then, here are your tracking tools for the day\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/webpubcontent.gray.tv\/wkyt\/WEBWATCHES.jpg\" alt=\"Watches\" data-src=\"https:\/\/webpubcontent.gray.tv\/wkyt\/WEBWATCHES.jpg\" \/><\/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>Make it a great evening and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, everyone. A Winter Storm Warning is out for parts of central and northern Kentucky with a Winter Weather Advisory out for many areas. This is the first of two winter storms to impact our region over the next few days. Here&#8217;s a look at the current Winter Weather Alerts&#8230; I&#8217;m still concerned about [&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-74605","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\/74605","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=74605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74615,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74605\/revisions\/74615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}