Good evening, gang. Snow showers and squalls continue across the region and these are putting down enough accumulation to cause slick travel. Temps will continue to tumble toward record lows with below zero wind chills possible.
It stays cold through the week with another front bringing a band of light snow and flurries by Wednesday night. That takes us toward a mild up for the weekend as a big storm develops in the plains and lifts to the north. This could be a big wind and rain maker in our region later in the weekend. The European Model then crushes the mild up with colder air returning by Monday…
Colder than normal air returns for Thanksgiving week with this type of a setup…
If the European Model is correct with that setup… more wintry weather would be possible over the long holiday period.
Take care.
Well, my own forecast of 0.5″ to 1.5″ panned out here in Lexington with 1″ recorded at BGA and my house. The transition to snow took awfully long. Didn’t transition ’till about 7am. Woke up at 6:45 with rain and sleet out my window, then BOOM 7am heavy snow! Curious to see if low temps pan out tonight. The past several days have been colder than what models have been showing. (with the exception of the rain to snow event last night) If the same thing happens, the we could be talking about single digit temps tonight! If not and a cloud deck holds, upper teens.
Yes, although Lexington didn’t get much, the ground is at least white and we just had some heavy flurries just now. And an inch of snow Nov 17th and this kind of cold is insane.
Last winter was L O N G, but it didn’t start nearly this soon. Imagine how long this will be if it keeps this pattern up all winter.
All Richmond got was a rock.
Bubba, we barely got a pebble! I feel your pain my friend.
🙂 ………… 🙁
Must admit I prefer being missed since would have had to deal with 75 to Lexington and then Richmond Rd on way to work. Slick stuff last year!
I-75 from Lexington to Richmond is a gamble any time of the year. I’ve been in more bottlenecks between those 2 exits than I care to think about and I dont live or work in either place.
Pretty steady snow in Laurel County over the last 30 minutes or so. Roads white in the neighborhood and sticking very well to everything else. If this keeps up, we may have a surprise snow day tomorrow. Interested to see who else is just far enough away from the radar signals that nowcasting is the norm when it comes to fluffy snow.
A solid 3 inches in east Frankfort today, I guess I was in a pretty heavy snow band at some point, roads have turned white again tonight , be safe travelers!
🙁 got a lousy inch in Lexington… roads are clear but any snow from snow showers that would fall would now stick. But it’s really hard to think positive when you know the county north of you got 2-3″ more than you do. South Lex has like half an inch.
Re the last map, now whoever dropped that big ice cube on canada needs to melt it now!! Sheesh /sarc
LOL!
Thanks CB!