Good afternoon, everyone. It’s another cold, dreary December day in the bluegrass state. Some flurries are flying around and that’s not a bad thing to see a week before Christmas. Something else that’s not bad to see… snow chances ahead.

The first chance arrives late Tonight into Thursday with a streaking area of light snow. This looks to put down light accumulations across western Kentucky. That area could even see some sleet and freezing rain mixing in. That NAM is picking up on the possible sticking snow in the west…

NAM 2 That streak of snow will then weaken the farther east that it gets, but most areas should see a some flakes.

The Friday night and Saturday system continues to look about the same as it did with the last update. The storm is now within the time range of the NAM…

NAM 3

That would deliver a swath of winter weather across the state. We still have to fine tune just how big of a swath that is and exactly where it sets up.

Christmas week keeps yelling “PAY ATTENTION TO ME”. The GFS continues to point toward the Christmas Eve and Day bomb…

GFS

GFS 2Just look at how much of the country being impacted by that type of a system. If that works out like what the models are strongly hinting at, a travel nightmare would ensue for millions of Americans. We shall see.

On a related note, the models are back to busting way too warm with the temps.  The GFS is the prime culprit as usual, but the numbers from that model are even trending down for the rest of the week.

I will have another update later today. Take care.