{"id":8658,"date":"2014-01-07T01:03:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T06:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=8658"},"modified":"2014-01-07T01:03:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T06:03:44","slug":"arctic-cold-continues-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=8658","title":{"rendered":"Arctic Cold Continues Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Tuesday to one and all. Kentucky continues to be under the influence of a brutally cold air mass today. It&#8217;s one that may produce record lows to start the day. The good news is that thermometers start to warm up over the next several days. The bad news for mild weather fans&#8230; it&#8217;s not going to last very long.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start with today and roll ahead. Lows this morning should range from 0 to -10 and some records may fall. Track it all\u00a0courtesy of the good folks at the Kentucky Mesonet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Lows<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kymesonet.org\/wxmaps\/dtmn_large.png?nowtime=1325915733\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Current Temperatures<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kymesonet.org\/wxmaps\/tair_f_large.png?nowtime=1325915126\" width=\"479\" height=\"208\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wind chill readings from -20 to -25 to begin the day and will head closer to 0 later in the afternoon. That&#8217;s when high temperatures warm into the upper single digits to low teens.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday will see the barbaric cold give way to a more seasonal brand of cold with upper 20s to low 30s. Clouds will increase later in the day and we will see the possibility of a touch of light snow by Thursday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GFS11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8661\" alt=\"GFS\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GFS11.png\" width=\"268\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s on the nose of some milder air that moves in for Friday and Saturday. Temps should warm into the\u00a040s as our pattern becomes rather unsettled. This should mean some rain over the weekend and any\u00a0warm up that starts with rain is usually one that&#8217;s short lived.<\/p>\n<p>The models are trying their best to\u00a0crank a bigger storm system by Saturday and Sunday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GFS-27.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8662\" alt=\"GFS 2\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GFS-27.png\" width=\"538\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GFS-27.png 538w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GFS-27-300x220.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u00a0isn&#8217;t a ton of cold available by that time, but it will be worth watching to see if\u00a0we can phase the streams.<\/p>\n<p>From there&#8230; watch how the\u00a0upper level pattern reverts back to a deep trough in the east&#8230;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GFS-32.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8663\" alt=\"GFS 3\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GFS-32.png\" width=\"454\" height=\"1576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GFS-32.png 454w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GFS-32-86x300.png 86w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The GFS Ensembles are\u00a0all over this, too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GFS-26.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8659\" alt=\"GFS 2\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GFS-26.png\" width=\"530\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GFS-26.png 530w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GFS-26-300x143.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What does that mean? A lot of cold and many snow chances are ahead of us for the second half of January and into February. I don&#8217;t think we are done with the extreme events and I have NO doubt the biggest snows are still ahead of us.<\/p>\n<p>Make it a great Tuesday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Tuesday to one and all. Kentucky continues to be under the influence of a brutally cold air mass today. It&#8217;s one that may produce record lows to start the day. The good news is that thermometers start to warm up over the next several days. The bad news for mild weather fans&#8230; it&#8217;s not [&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-8658","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\/8658","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=8658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}