Friday, December 19, 2008

Friday/Early Afternoon

WEATHER CODE: YELLOW ***High winds will continue through the evening hours***


After some heavy rain this morning, the precipitation is now well to the north and now it's just windy! The National Weather Services in Louisville and Indianapolis have posted WIND ADVISORIES for the rest of today. Some of the winds later this afternoon could gust up to 50 MPH, so make sure you pick up any loose objects outside! Next storm system will enter the region Saturday night into Sunday. Right now it looks like mainly a rain maker changing over to a few snow showers or snow flurries Sunday morning. This front may not bring much snow, but it will bring the colder weather. Temperatures will plummet into the lower 20's for highs and lower teens for lows region wide on Moday. Some models don't go this low with the temperatures, but decided to go with a colder solution due to the intensity of the cold front.

CHRISTMAS STORM UPDATE: Alright many are wanting to know...will their be a white Christmas? Well I am by no means giving up yet, but it's not looking good.
Models are really beginning to pull some warm air in here Tuesday into Wednesday and you would think that the cold air would hang on, but it's not going to according to the latest models...
The GFS now takes this storm nearly into the Great Lakes which means heavy rain for us. If the GFS is correct, places like Chicago would even see rain out of this system. Other models are beginning to trend westward with the storm as well. All in all, today has been another dissapointment, and I am getting close to jumping on the NO snow bandwagon. I won't do it yet though, because models will still change the next several days, and let's hope it's for the better. The GFS will nearly have to flip flop about 400 miles to the south and 200 miles to the east for it to be a good snow for us. We'll see...don't give up yet...

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Patrick,
I am going to go outside and do my snow dance for snow on Wed/Thurs!!!!

Carl said...

john belski says that the canadian model still shows cold air.

Anonymous said...

Well, I've asked many a person and no one seems to even want to give an answer... but WHY does the weather/storms here ALWAYS seem to go to the north, south, dissapate over us only to form back up to the east of us... What is it about this area ( Louisville ) ? Is it the sea level, the river. what? Your thoughts?

Tnx

Patrick Sumner said...

Tnx...This is hard to explain. Honestly I think it just may be plain ole' bad luck...PS