{"id":76069,"date":"2026-01-30T19:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=76069"},"modified":"2026-01-30T19:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:38:15","slug":"a-quick-friday-evening-look-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=76069","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Friday Evening Look Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, everyone. Snow continues to impact southeastern Kentucky as bitterly cold temps settle back into the Commonwealth. I wanted to drop by for a super quick update as we look head to the weekend and the first week of February.<\/p>\n<p>A Winter Storm Warning is now out for far southeastern Kentucky with a Winter Weather Advisory for a few areas surrounding that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/webpubcontent.gray.tv\/wkyt\/WEBWATCHES.jpg\" alt=\"Watches\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Snow continues to spin across the very high mountains along the Virginia border, bringing several inches to those areas.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the state will see snow showers and a few snow squalls kicking in on Saturday as brutally cold air returns. Temps tonight reach 5 below to 5 above in many areas with wind chill temps hitting -10 to -20 at times for parts of central and northern Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday will be another brutally cold day.<\/p>\n<p>The pattern next week will throw a system at us with snow and\/or a mix Tuesday and Wednesday. That will be followed up by another arctic front by the end of the week and weekend&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>GFS<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GFS-66.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76070\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GFS-66.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CANADIAN<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Canadian-75.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76071\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Canadian-75.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The full update comes your way later tonight.\u00a0 I\u2019ll also have 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 Friday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, everyone. Snow continues to impact southeastern Kentucky as bitterly cold temps settle back into the Commonwealth. I wanted to drop by for a super quick update as we look head to the weekend and the first week of February. A Winter Storm Warning is now out for far southeastern Kentucky with a Winter [&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-76069","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\/76069","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=76069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76072,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76069\/revisions\/76072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}