Good Monday, everyone. This week of weather looks to be as busy as advertised with several systems impacting our weather. A few days ago, several models showed more of a winter look, only to lose it. Those same models are now bringing that look back at us this weekend and early next week.
Showers are working across the state today and these will keep many thermometers in the 50s…
A cold front moves in Tuesday with a line of showers and thunderstorms whipping eastward through the day…
That line moving into western Kentucky early Tuesday can be on the strong side. Gusty winds will be common across the entire region over the next few days. 40mph gusts will be possible.
Seasonal temps come in behind that, leading us toward another system shooing in here by Friday. Winds will be gusty with this system as another round of showers move through.
The pattern behind this looks interesting with cold air taking up residence across the northern half of the country and trying to press toward the south. How far south does this press?
The GFS is sinking farther south with each run, but still shows a mainly rain maker ending as some snow later this weekend and early next week…
The Canadian Model is full blown winter…
The Model then follows that up with another winter weather maker…
The European Model has also been showing a similar winter look from time to time.
I will hook you up with more updates later today. Have a great Monday and take care.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Thomas said that too.
Spring weather is a meteorologist nightmare.
Last week’s severe t-storms included an EF4 tornado that covered a roughly 50 mile path from Perryville, Missouri well into southern Illinois – not far from western Kentucky. A small handful of much weaker twisters also occurred in southern Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee, along with many reports of strong damaging straight line winds.
But the potential for severe wx for the next few days is forecast to be considerably less compared to last week, at least in our general part of the country. Far western parts of Kentucky and Tennessee will have some severe risk tonight, including a rather low tornado threat. At this time, the Storm Prediction Center is generally expecting Tuesday’s t-storms to be below severe limits for all of Kentucky and only a marginal risk along the Tennessee-Mississippi line. So we might let our guard down a little bit…….for the time being anyway.
Could be a fun week of model watching! Thanks for the updates CB.
Hmm, maybe even a long shot of a few flakes during the SEC mens basketball tournament in Nashville?? 😉
At least if the Canadian model has its way.
Oh, oh are we getting tease again as far snow possibility.
NOOOOO!
I still say spring wins.
I’m still holding out for a March bruiser!
Thanks Chris, and good Monday to all my fellow weather lovers, winter, spring and summer. I like something about each of them so I won’t fuss. But I prefer that they come when they are normally supposed to. It’s
March now, time for temps to start warming and for kite flying days leading to some April showers. Let me say here that I LOVE a good snowstorm….but I don’t want it in the middle of March! But I guess we will take whatever we get and make the best of it. Enjoy Monday, everyone, and stay dry. Thanks again Chris for all you do.
Agreed on all counts and no need to type my own message!
not falling for it LOL
Atleast if any snow falls the march sun will eat it in no time.
Ready for spring!
I’m no meteorologist, but the 12z GFS looks very, very interesting for Sunday. I keep seeing these bruisers form 2 weeks out only to disappear, so take it with a grain of salt.
12z model run is calling for an ice storm for next Sat-Sun. Each run has trended colder than the one before it and the ice is dropped further and further south. A couple days ago, the rain/ice line was predicted to be near the great lakes. Yesterday it dropped to south-central OH. Today, KY is in the bulls-eye. Hopefully we’ll see things trend warmer going forward.