Good Sunday and happy Super Bowl. A developing winter storm is sweeping across the Ohio Valley and is bringing a lot of nasty weather with it. We’re on the rainy side of things today, but a rapid temp drop tonight may combine with light snow to produce slick roads early Monday.

January is in the books and temps averaged 1 to 2 degrees below normal for most of the state. Snowfall for many came in under the normal value, but Lexington did finish 2″ above normal.  With December showing up milder and January colder, February will be the deciding month for the winter as a whole. As far as snow goes… a little over a week ago, Boston folks were totally bumming because they had very little snow all winter. They picked up 2 feet this past week and will get another foot or so the next few days. Things can change in a hurry.

This first day of the month offers changeable weather conditions with our storm system rolling right on top of us. Rain and gusty winds will carry us through much of the day as temps increase. That increase will go the other way VERY quickly tonight as the low passes through here. Check out this drop…

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That takes place as soon as the low slides to our east…

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Let’s review… we have a lot of wet roads as temps drop from the 40s into the upper teens and low 20s in just a few hours. Throw in a band of light snow during that drop and you can get roads to ice up pretty darn fast.

Snow showers and flurries would take us through midday Monday.

From there, we watch the middle and end of the week to see if a system working in from the northwest can pick up a storm developing in the gulf…

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I will have updates later today. I leave you with your tracking tools…

Have a great day and take care.