Good Thursday, everyone. A developing storm system will impact Kentucky over the next few days. The extent of that impact is still a bit uncertain, but the overnight models did push the deepest moisture a little farther to the east.

Here’s a look at who has the best shot at picking up some sticking snow from this…

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That isn’t too different from what I was showing yesterday. The question I will have to tackle today is… how much snow falls? As of this writing… I do not see this becoming a significant snow maker across our region.

Here’s a brief breakdown…

– Light rain and a light mix will develop from southwest to northeast Friday afternoon. As the precipitation moves in the temps will drop.

– It gets cold enough from Friday evening through Saturday morning for a band of snow to develop. The “best chance” area obviously has the greatest chance of seeing that.

– A sharp cutoff is likely to be noted on the north and western sides of the precipitation shield.

– Odds favor this being a light snowfall across our region, but that could change depending on the exact track of the low.

– The snow will quickly taper off from west to east Saturday morning.

From this point, we focus on a clipper diving in from the northwest late Sunday into Monday…

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Temps ahead of that will spike a bit on Sunday and then crash Sunday night as light snow tries to fly across the area. Another clipper will follow that up a few days later.

While the snow chances remain somewhat of a mystery with this pattern… the same can’t be said about the potentially for arctic cold. Nothing has changed with this situation as we end January and say hello to February…

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If you’re like me, you have ZERO use for bitterly cold temps if snow isn’t involved. If it does indeed get that cold… let’s hope it’s not with a bare ground like we had a few weeks ago. That’s just miserable.

I will have updates later today. Take care.