Good Sunday afternoon, gang. A clipper is diving into the bluegrass state and will zip across the state tonight. This will bring rain into our region into the evening. That rain will then change to a period of snow tonight into Monday. This means some slick travel could develop in time for the morning rush hour.

The change from rain to snow will first happen in the west and north into this evening. That change will then slowly work toward the east and southeast overnight into Monday morning. The GFS is trying to show a small enhanced band of precipitation just behind the departing low…

GFS

You can also see how moisture lingers across central and eastern Kentucky into Monday as the low bombs out to our east. That’s a setup that can put down some light accumulations of snow around here. The GFS is seeing that possibility…

GFS Snow

As the light snow settles in and the clipper moves east, temps will quickly crash into the low and mid 20s. Let’s do the math here… wet roads followed by some light accumulating snow and temps in the 20s. That can sometimes be a nice recipe for icy roads to develop. We will see if that’s the case late tonight and early Monday.

Another little disturbance dives in from the northwest Monday night and early Tuesday and could bring a swath of light snow with it.

As we go through all this… the possibility of an historic blizzard is increasing across the northeast. Look at the snow forecast from the European for areas around NYC and Boston…

Euro 6

40mph-70mph winds with that? The NWS in Boston thinks it’s possible…

Boston

That would be unreal to experience. Out of curiosity, if I organized a blizzard chase one day… would any of you be interested in going?

Back to our weather… another clipper will move in here late Thursday into Friday with rain to light snow.

What happens with next weekend is still to be determined. Today’s model runs have backed off the big storm idea, but they can’t show something each and every day. The problem we’re seeing with them is how they handle energy coming out of the southwest. They are leaving that energy behind, missing the deep trough digging in from the northwest…

Euro

Of course, the models were doing something similar with the Friday storm and the one getting ready to slam the northeast. We still have plenty of time to watch it. Storm or not… that’s a lot of arctic air coming next weekend into the first week of February.

I have you set to do some clipper tracking…

I will update things again this evening. Take care.