Good Sunday evening, gang. Some very light snow and flurries continue to fly across parts of central and eastern Kentucky, as we get set for a frigid night ahead. Speaking of ahead, a couple of systems are showing up as we get closer to Christmas. Can we squeeze some snow out of them?
Let’s focus on the cold night before we look at the chance for festive flakes. 🙂
We are likely to see a heck of a temperature contrast from west to east tonight. In the east, skies look to stay cloudy and that may keep temps only 20-25. Areas in the west and north may totally go clear, and with the air coming off a deep snowpack to the northwest, it can get bitterly cold with single digits.
The Canadian is likely too cold over the next couple of mornings, but it shows how that snowpack influences temps…
Temps moderate as we head into the middle of the week, but a weak system blows into town on Thursday with the potential for some flurries or a snow shower…
A much bigger system will impact our Christmas weekend. The exact impact remains to be seen, as we have to find out how strong the storm is and where it goes.
The GFS Parallel shows it right on top of us with a temp spike and rain followed by a temp crash and snow…
The regular GFS is much farther west with that storm and is WARM with rain and maybe a backside snowflake…
It will be interesting to track this storm system as we inch closer.
I’ll see you guys back here for a late night update. Until then, enjoy your Sunday evening and take care.
More rain, yay :/
Thanks Chris. You’re the best!
Need that low to track to our south
Let’s hope the storm does go to our south. A white Christmas would be awesome! Thank you Chris for all you do for us weather geeks. You are the best!
I am not seeing the potential for snow. I want to though. My family would love a white Christmas. Someone show me the details. I must be missing a detail on the forecast. Thanks.
Thanks, CB! Not your fault on our big fence 🙂 BTW, I am placing odds on the warmer with rain model version for the weekend 😉
Yeah I’m going with the liquid sunshine for the weekend too.
Well we we’ll see if the new improve GFS model is just as terrible as the old one.
Glad someone else said it first.
Just like today’s Bengals game! It looks good for a little bit. But we all knew what the outcome was going to be, this next storm is the 3rd in a row, the same look, we don’t have to wait, it’s going to rain. Its just the trend for now, hopefully it will change in Jan!
Wow, more disappointment for the weekend. A lot can change blah blah blah. Rodger in Dodger
Good stuff, Chris! Thanks so much.
That second model the older GFS looks just like last nights system. I think we are on pace in my area (of WV) to have less snow this December than last year. Which is saying a lot, since last December was the warmest of all time and we somehow managed to get .4 inch of snow. Two weeks to go, still time for a daybreak dusting of a half inch to beat out last year.
Still a trace here in Harlan for the month-to-date also…not seeing snow this week…sorry GFS, GFS-2, NAM and the rest of you terrible models as of late!