Good Friday, folks. If you’re a fan of wild weather, this weekend is going to be a fun one to track. Temps are going to spike and crash, winds are going to gust up, we could hear some rumbles of thunder, get in on a nice period of sleet and snow, then end things with another arctic blast moving in.
Clouds will continue to thicken today as temps slowly climb from west to east. Light precipitation breaks out this evening and could be in the form of a mix at the beginning. With a frozen ground, we will need to be on guard for some local icy spots… especially in the colder valleys…
Here’s a breakdown of where we go from here…
- Temps on Saturday will really take off with many areas surging into the 60s.
- Showers and some thunderstorms develop, with the potential for a line of weak storms during the evening.
- Arctic air then surges into the back of that line and switches it over to sleet, some snow and freezing rain. That happens from west to east starting late Saturday evening…
- There’s an outside chance of thundersleet with this system. 🙂
- Light accumulations of sleet and snow will be possible across the entire state…
- That will combine with a rapid freeze of all the standing water, and create slick travel conditions.
- Temperatures drop through the 20s on Sunday with the teens showing up by evening. Lows by Monday morning will be way down there and could bring another round of single digits to the region. Much of that would be thanks, in part, to northwesterly winds coming off the deep snow pack to our northwest. Here’s the NAM for Monday morning…
The Canadian for the same time is even colder…
Funny thing is, the poor GFS sees none of this. The new version of it does, so that’s a positive sign.
I will hook you up with another update or two later today. Make it a great Friday and take care.
Great weekend if you’re a duck.
Thundersleet sounds great.
My old trolling buddy. How goes it?
Not a troll. Stop lying.
Looking forward to the wild weather this weekend!
A good part of you will probably see some winter precipitation this weekend but this has cold rain written all over it for those of us in extreme southern KY. Seen this kind of setup fall apart too many times over the years
I am here in the same part of KY and understand how you feel; however, I will take this active weather any day compared to the prior several months of boring we endured!
So after this the SE ridge takes over around Christmas and will carry us through most of the winter. Better get your boots ready, Rain boots that is. Thanks for the update CB. I hope this on is an overachiever.
This is not – and never was going to be – a big snow event. I see some folks acting like the whole winter’s a bust already … true it’s been an exceptionally ordinary December weather-wise, but there’s 2 more months of winter to go, so don’t write it off yet.
Jamie, I agree with you. people talk so negative and gotta be thankful to be alive weather we get snow or not. life goes on!!!