Good Tuesday, everyone. We have the potential for strong to, locally, severe thunderstorms to impact the bluegrass state today. This action is part of a very active weather pattern that continues to feature a nice little fight between winter and spring.

Today’s storms will come at us from southwest to northeast and bring the potential for damaging winds and hail. Can we get a brief tornado spin up? Yes, but the odds are pretty low. Here are the tracking toys for the day…

Current Watches
Current Watches

Possible Watch Areas
Current MDs

Wednesday will feature a much different setup with colder air surging in from northwest to southeast. That sets the stage for a mega temp gradient along this boundary with 60s southeast and 30s west. The colder air wins the battle as another area of low pressure works through here with rain and the chance for snow.

There could be a stripe of snow showing up by Wednesday night. Depending on how strong the wave is, some of that could stick…

Canadian

After a cold day on Thursday, a massive warm up moves in for Friday into the weekend. Temps surge again ahead of another cold front. That front will bring the threat for showers and thunderstorms to our region as a trough digs in behind it. That trough leaves a big piece of upper level energy in the southwest.

The models continue to eject that out next week and merge it with a system diving in from the northwest. The GFS does this…

GFS GIf

We shall see.

I will update things later today. Make it a good one and take care.