Good Tuesday afternoon. We’re seeing a nice temperature contrast from northwest to southeast this afternoon and that’s probably telling us something about the upcoming east coast storm. It’s arguing for a slightly farther west track and precipitation shield.

Right on cue, the 12z runs of the NAM and GFS did show the precipitation shield much farther west into Kentucky. This all begins later tonight as a surge of rain coming into southeastern parts of the state. As the storm cranks, temps fall and allow for rain and snow and just plain old snow.

The new GFS snow map shows accumulating snows…

GFS Snow

You can also see the Wednesday night and Thanksgiving light snow maker impacting the west and southern parts of the state.

The NAM isn’t too far away from that…

NAM

Temps with both systems are marginal for much in the way of accumulations, so we will have to wait and see how that shakes out.

Regardless, the potential for accumulating snow from the east coast storm has increased for parts of eastern Kentucky.

I will have another update later. Take care.