{"id":79496,"date":"2026-11-12T01:15:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T06:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=79496"},"modified":"2026-11-12T01:15:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T06:15:52","slug":"a-few-first-flakes-for-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=79496","title":{"rendered":"A Few First Flakes for Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Thursday, everyone. Our change is underway as seasonable air presses in today with our first taste of winter set to follow for Friday. That&#8217;s when some of us see the first festive flakes of the season to go along with cold temps.<\/p>\n<p>A strong northwest flow is kicking in out there today with a few showers early on then again during the afternoon and evening. Temps will spike into the upper 40s to low 50s ahead of this next boundary dropping in.<\/p>\n<p>From there, we find rain showers and a few snow showers and flurries cranking for Friday into Friday night. The best chance is across the east and southeast. The future radar from the HRRR from late tonight through 7pm Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/hrrr.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79497\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/hrrr.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t get a future radar produce from the Short Range Canadian, but you can clearly see the pockets of blow indicating some flakes. This animation starts late tonight and runs through Saturday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/CANADIAN-8.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79500\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/CANADIAN-8.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at what I&#8217;m expecting in terms of flakes. Light accumulations will show up in the high mountains of the southeast&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1-MAP-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79501\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1-MAP-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"617\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1-MAP-1.jpg 617w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1-MAP-1-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seasonably cold temps will be with us throughout the weekend. Highs on Friday range from the upper 30s to low 40s for much of central and eastern Kentucky. Highs over the weekend are mainly in the 40s with overnight lows that can reach the low and middle 20s.<\/p>\n<p>Temps slowly moderate next week and should go back to above normal later in the week into next weekend. That&#8217;s ahead of what should be a big storm system early Thanksgiving week. This one unleashes colder air and this is showing up on the ensembles and operational models. The GFS sees some Barney for Thanksgiving week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/GFS-16.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79503\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/GFS-16.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The longer range continues to feature the Thanksgiving Week changes leading to a more sustained winter setup into December. The blocking showing up from Canada toward the Arctic continues to show up leading to a likely stormy and colder than normal pattern for our region.<\/p>\n<p>This animation from the Euro Weeklies starts just before Thanksgiving and goes just beyond Christmas&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/EURO-14.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79498\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/EURO-14.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That is one consistent signal, folks.<\/p>\n<p>With this colder than normal setup that likely features several hefty storm systems, the EURO Weeklies are still spitting out above normal snowfall during this same time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/EURO-9.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79499\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/EURO-9.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"965\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/EURO-9.png 965w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/EURO-9-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/EURO-9-768x604.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 965px) 100vw, 965px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have another update later today. Until then, here are your chilly shower tracking tools&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-wrap\">\n<div class=\"post-content entry-content\">\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 Thursday and take care.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Thursday, everyone. Our change is underway as seasonable air presses in today with our first taste of winter set to follow for Friday. That&#8217;s when some of us see the first festive flakes of the season to go along with cold temps. A strong northwest flow is kicking in out there today with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79496","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\/79496","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=79496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79504,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79496\/revisions\/79504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}