{"id":77230,"date":"2026-04-20T01:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T05:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=77230"},"modified":"2026-04-20T01:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T05:15:10","slug":"a-more-active-pattern-taking-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=77230","title":{"rendered":"A More Active Pattern Taking Shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Monday to one and all. It&#8217;s another chilly day across the Commonwealth with a kiss of frost for some. As the week wears on, temps start to surge as we head into a more active setup to end April and roll into the month of May.<\/p>\n<p>Temps today range from the 50s in the north and east to the 60s in the west.<\/p>\n<p>Lows tonight can reach freezing or below in a few spots in the north and east, so green thumbs are on alert.<\/p>\n<p>Temps hit the 70s by Tuesday then will make a run at 80 from Wednesday through Friday. This leads us into a setup likely to throw rounds of showers and storms at us over te weekend into Kentucky Derby Week. This animation starts Friday and runs through Kentucky Derby Day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GFS-3-2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77239\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GFS-3-2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The GFS Ensembles are showing this more active setup on the average rainfall amounts over the next 2 weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GFS-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77232\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GFS-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"959\" height=\"755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GFS-3.png 959w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GFS-3-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GFS-3-768x605.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This comes with a below normal temperature pattern showing up on both the GFS Ensembles and the EURO Ensembles&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>GFS ENSEMBLES<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GFS-2-2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77233\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GFS-2-2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EURO ENSEMBLES<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/EURO-19.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77234\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/EURO-19.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The EURO Weeklies have been running too cool for the spring so far, but they are showing a below normal temperature May&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/EURO-2-10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77235\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/EURO-2-10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"964\" height=\"758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/EURO-2-10.png 964w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/EURO-2-10-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/EURO-2-10-768x604.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those below normal temps also come with above normal rainfall&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/EURO-3-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77236\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/EURO-3-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"957\" height=\"808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/EURO-3-5.png 957w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/EURO-3-5-300x253.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/EURO-3-5-768x648.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 957px) 100vw, 957px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d settle for that!<\/p>\n<p>Have a magnificent Monday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Monday to one and all. It&#8217;s another chilly day across the Commonwealth with a kiss of frost for some. As the week wears on, temps start to surge as we head into a more active setup to end April and roll into the month of May. Temps today range from the 50s in the [&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-77230","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\/77230","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=77230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77240,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77230\/revisions\/77240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}