Good Friday, everyone. Much colder air continues to pour into the region and this can lead to a few periods of freezing rain in the north and west. This is all part of a big time battle between winter and spring that will continue to bring very active weather our way.
We will continue to see a huge temperature gradient from north to south out there today. The cold air meeting up with precipitation can put down some freezing rain today across parts of the west…
There is a smaller threat across northern Kentucky, but we may see a break in the precipitation in that region until later this evening.
That leads me to the overnight and Saturday freezing rain threat. The best chance is across the north…
Areas just to our west are in line for a catastrophic ice storm. While not as bad, areas to our north are also in line for a healthy amount of ice.
Here’s regional radar for the day…
Additional showers are likely on Sunday as warmer air gets ready to surge back in from the south. This will set the stage for a week of weather straight out of March. Highs can reach the 60s with rounds of showers and thunderstorms possible. Heavy rainfall will be a safe bet with this repeat action.
In typical March fashion, winds will also be gusty.
As I have been yapping about the past few days, the pattern of the last 3 winters looms large for the rest of this winter. Each of those were back loaded with snow and cold, and it’s looking more and more like this one will be as well.
The GFS shows a quick return to winter after our upcoming week of Mach weather…
The new CFS monthly forecasts looks pretty awful for anyone wanting an early start to Spring. Here’s the February temperature departure in Celsius…
March…
Snow fun over the next 45 days…
My winter forecast is not happy about this potential. 🙁
I will have updates later today. Make it a good one and take care.
Cue the haters and their armchair forecasting plus “yawn meters”.
My yawn meter is way high from the lack of sleep I’m getting.
Still no one picking up on ice for southern Ohio. Weather channel says 41* and rain. Local metal barely even speaking of it. Am I missing something ?
Because we not really going to get much
doesn’t take much, to make things a mess
That is true, I guess just not enough to be news worthy
It is the TWC after all don’t expect to much.
We have a freezing rain advisory in cincinnati area through Saturday 1pm.
Perhaps a glimmer of hope for us snow lovers.
Here in Southern Ohio 34 degrees and getting colder. Snow and Ice already showing up on radar in Southern Indiana and Illinois.
all this warm weather sure makes me want an early spring. but at the same time the snow lover in me is longing for a blizzard….oh so torn.
Fun with typos…. Chris wrote:
“The GFS shows a quick return to winter after our upcoming week of Mach weather…”
This is where people freak out–“Mach weather? Like weather at the speed of sound? What do we get at the grocery store for that???”
Maybe they should coin wind storms, Mach weather 😉 🙂
We have the Polar Vortex now, so why not? 🙂
Looking forward to more snow chances, however, the snow chart is nice to look at but is also quite ridiculous in what it shows, even to be just “potential”.
Yeah, the images show everything from 30 inches to 10 in SE KY but rarely pans out…they are mostly good only to look at for trends but some out there try to take them as forecasted snow accumulation.
Especially the frame top left…it highly unlikely that accumulating snow will reach all the way to Orlando FL but indicates some cold for sure!
And 10 inches in 45 days isn’t anything to get excited about
That works out to about ten drive-by snows 😉
Agreed! Maybe we will luck up with one surprise storm before March is over…
Thanks Chris. Glad to see we’ve got some snow chances down the road!
Can we just fast forward to the end of next week. Get your duck boots out as you are going to need them. Hope them 45 day snow maps pan out and blows CB’s winter forecast out of the water and into the snow.
34 degrees in Jackson Ohio. Was 37 at 6am.
Yes it was 34 degrees. It is now 35.7 on the side of the house. I live on the edge of town in open country.
Sleet right now in southern IN.
*freezing rain
You do know they are not the same, right?
Sorry, you could have been making a radar observation…thought it was a surface observation you were making.
Yes, I know they are not the same. Thanks.
I remember seeing a set of snow maps like those back in early December prior to our 3 day cold snap then. And we all know how that turned out.
I get where you are coming from but December cold compared to February cold just not the same. This cold snap will sustain itself well into Feb and possibly March. Also, those December snow maps were correct, the snow just came in the form of rain. LOL.
URGENT – WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
333 AM EST FRI JAN 13 2017
OHZ066-067-075-076-083>085-WVZ009>011-017-019-020-031-032-131645-
/O.NEW.KRLX.ZR.Y.0003.170114T0400Z-170114T2100Z/
PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-JACKSON OH-VINTON-MEIGS-WOOD-
PLEASANTS-TYLER-WIRT-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-HARRISON-TAYLOR-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF NEW LEXINGTON, CROOKSVILLE, SOMERSET,
MCCONNELSVILLE, STOCKPORT, ATHENS, MARIETTA, BELPRE, JACKSON,
WELLSTON, OAK HILL, MCARTHUR, HAMDEN, POMEROY, PARKERSBURG,
VIENNA, ST. MARYS, BELMONT, PADEN CITY, SISTERSVILLE,
MIDDLEBOURNE, ELIZABETH, HARRISVILLE, PENNSBORO, WEST UNION,
CLARKSBURG, BRIDGEPORT, AND GRAFTON
333 AM EST FRI JAN 13 2017
…FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO
4 PM EST SATURDAY…
Stay frosty, CB. Don’t fall for Lucy’s football forecasts 😉
Come on BubbaG, you know you want an old skool thumping.
I think we have permanently lost him to the dark side.
anyone have a link to most recent model runs showing ice accumulation. Thinking we may still have some cause for concern in southeast Ohio.
FISHHOOK! Who’s going to get reeled in?
I love that it is going to be cold well into spring. It should not be 70 in January. Most people complain about cold weather and I love it to stay colder longer so I can here them complain