{"id":74891,"date":"2025-12-23T15:10:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=74891"},"modified":"2025-12-23T15:10:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:10:04","slug":"merry-christmas-eve-eve-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=74891","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas Eve Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon, everyone. It&#8217;s Merry Christmas Eve Eve or, for those who celebrate, Happy Festivus! It&#8217;s a warm day out there and that&#8217;s a sign of what&#8217;s to come through Christmas into the start of Christmas Weekend. Two big arctic blasts are still on target to impact us starting late Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HappyFestivusGIF.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74900\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HappyFestivusGIF.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"278\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are no changes to the overall forecast as a boundary hangs across the region through Friday. This sets up a healthy temperature swing from north to south as scattered showers remain.<\/p>\n<p>I still maintain that Saturday is the warmest day of the bunch with 70 a possibility on a strong southwest wind ahead of an arctic front dropping in late Sunday into Monday. This will have a wave of low pressure along it, but I&#8217;m not too jazzed up about much in the way of snow with this.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian continues to show the chance for some light snow and snow showers behind the front and I think that&#8217;s a possibility&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Canadian-36.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74893\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Canadian-36.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The AI version of the GFS doesn&#8217;t show precipitation types, but is trying to do the same&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GFS-45.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74896\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GFS-45.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Temps tank behind this boundary with wind chills pushing zero or below by Monday morning. That&#8217;s going to be a shock to the system.<\/p>\n<p>Another arctic shot blows in by New Year&#8217;s Eve and Day and this one has the chance to produce some snow around here.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian has some&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Canadian-2-16.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74892\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Canadian-2-16.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So does the EURO&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EURO-37.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74898\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EURO-37.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a strong blast of arctic air behind it that should be able to open up the Great Lakes for some snows reaching all the way into the southern Appalachian Mountains.<\/p>\n<p>Barney shows up behind each of these blasts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Canadian-3-6.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74894\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Canadian-3-6.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To those who doubt and troll&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SeinfeldFestivusGIF.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74901\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SeinfeldFestivusGIF.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The full update comes your way later 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:\/\/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 terrific Tuesday and take care.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon, everyone. It&#8217;s Merry Christmas Eve Eve or, for those who celebrate, Happy Festivus! It&#8217;s a warm day out there and that&#8217;s a sign of what&#8217;s to come through Christmas into the start of Christmas Weekend. Two big arctic blasts are still on target to impact us starting late Sunday. There are no changes [&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-74891","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\/74891","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=74891"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74902,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74891\/revisions\/74902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}