{"id":74785,"date":"2025-12-18T18:53:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=74785"},"modified":"2025-12-18T18:53:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:53:39","slug":"strong-storms-to-snow-showers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=74785","title":{"rendered":"Strong Storms to Snow Showers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, everyone. A potent cold front is racing into the region, bringing showers and thunderstorms through the area. Once that moves through, it&#8217;s a quick-hitting blast of cold and snow showers late tonight and Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Storm Prediction Center is back to having a Marginal Risk for severe storms with the action out there this evening&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/partners\/outlooks\/state\/images\/KY_swody1.png?1766088185\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Local wind damage is possible, but this isn&#8217;t anything that&#8217;s overly concerning to me.<\/p>\n<p>As the squall line races through, temps tank with a second front racing through in the middle of the night. Snow showers and a few snow squalls then roll through here into the first part of Friday. The future radar from the HRRR shows this action well. Our animation goes from 7 this evening through Friday afternoon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hrrr-6.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74787\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hrrr-6.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Light accumulations will be possible and there&#8217;s the chance for slick roads into Friday morning. Some of the short-range models are seeing the light accumulations&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hrrr-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74788\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hrrr-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"966\" height=\"757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hrrr-2.png 966w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hrrr-2-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hrrr-2-768x602.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 966px) 100vw, 966px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nam-15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74789\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nam-15.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"964\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nam-15.png 964w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nam-15-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nam-15-768x605.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wind chills turn brutally cold by Friday morning with some single digit wind chills showing up. This animation takes us through 7pm today through 9am Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EURO-30.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74792\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EURO-30.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have the full breakdown later tonight. Until then, here are all the storm tracking tools you need to start the week\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><strong>Current watches<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/watch\/\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/watch\/validww.png\" alt=\"Current Watches\" width=\"582\" height=\"408\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/watch\/validww.png\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Possible Watch Areas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/md\/\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/md\/validmd.png\" alt=\"Current MDs\" width=\"582\" height=\"408\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/md\/validmd.png\" 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 potent cold front is racing into the region, bringing showers and thunderstorms through the area. Once that moves through, it&#8217;s a quick-hitting blast of cold and snow showers late tonight and Friday. The Storm Prediction Center is back to having a Marginal Risk for severe storms with the action out there [&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-74785","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\/74785","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=74785"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74794,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74785\/revisions\/74794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}