Good Sunday evening, everyone. Heavy rain and high winds are arriving right on cue. Gusts to 50mph will be possible overnight into Monday as a powerful storm works into the Great Lakes.

I continue to be focused on the Wednesday through Thanksgiving period for the potential for winter weather. We continue to see the models cranking up a big east coast winter storm. Each run edges this bad boy a little farther west and that’s a trend we may see some more of over the next few days.

The European Model shows the snow shield with this storm crossing eastern Kentucky…

Euro

That’s a monster storm rolling up the east coast and will cause travel nightmares on the busiest travel day of the year. You can also see the second system diving at us from the northwest with some light snow. Here’s the European Model snow forecast…

Euro 2

The late day GFS is continues to run straight toward the European Model…

GFS

It is also bringing the accumulating snows from that storm across southeastern Kentucky…

GFS Snow

As I said a few days ago, the setup was there for a much bigger storm system and it wouldn’t take much to get it to impact Kentucky.

Now… does the infamous northwest trend on storms kick in at this point? If so, it’s a much bigger impact on our weather. That is a big IF at this point, but it is certainly something to watch.

I will have another update later tonight. Take care.