{"id":75081,"date":"2025-12-30T19:09:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=75081"},"modified":"2025-12-30T19:09:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:09:22","slug":"watching-the-new-years-light-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=75081","title":{"rendered":"Watching the New Year&#8217;s Light Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, everyone. A few flurries are passing through the region this evening as we watch for the New Year&#8217;s Eve light snow maker that impacts parts of the state. This may cause a few travel issues for the north and east.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a light snowmaker that impacts the far northeast later tonight and I can&#8217;t rule out some coatings. The slightly bigger system arrives New Year&#8217;s Eve with a band of snow that drops in from northwest to southeast.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the future radar from the HRRR showing this&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hrrr-12.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75083\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hrrr-12.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your First Call For Snowfall highlights the best chance for accumulating snows in the north and east with a very sharp cutoff on the western edge&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1-MAP-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75082\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1-MAP-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"868\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1-MAP-7.jpg 868w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1-MAP-7-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1-MAP-7-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I generally agree with what then HRRR and Canadian are doing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hrrr-6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75084\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hrrr-6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"964\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hrrr-6.png 964w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hrrr-6-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hrrr-6-768x605.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Canadian-22.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75087\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Canadian-22.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"964\" height=\"756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Canadian-22.png 964w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Canadian-22-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Canadian-22-768x602.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Temps drop for New Year&#8217;s Day then bounce back for Friday then drop again over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The big change to a harsh winter pattern might come just a few days after what I&#8217;ve been thinking. Instead of later next week, it may be a few days after that before the pattern turns harsh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GFS-56.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75088\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GFS-56.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The main 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:\/\/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 few flurries are passing through the region this evening as we watch for the New Year&#8217;s Eve light snow maker that impacts parts of the state. This may cause a few travel issues for the north and east. There&#8217;s a light snowmaker that impacts the far northeast later tonight and I [&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-75081","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\/75081","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=75081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75089,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75081\/revisions\/75089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}