Good afternoon, everyone. It’s a windy and cold day in the bluegrass state, as we continue to focus on additional rounds of light snow for the week ahead.
There’s nothing to change about my overall thoughts on the pattern. We have several light snow chances lined up from Monday night through Friday.
The clipper moving in Monday night and Tuesday will likely be able to get a true northwesterly wind going behind it, leading to widespread snow showers and squalls across central and eastern Kentucky. The HI-RES NAM shows some help from Lake Michigan…
There’s a chance this outperforms what we just went through on Saturday. Pockets of 1″+ snows are possible with that scenario.
Winds will be super gusty as temps crash all day long on Tuesday. The same HI RES NAM has single digit wind chills by evening…
Another system rolls in here late Wednesday into early Thursday, bringing the potential for some light snow…
That is being pushed by a potent upper level system that takes on a bit of a negative tilt by Friday. Watch how the trough axis leans backward by Friday…
That suggest this system has room to grow stronger in future runs. As it stands now, light snows and snow showers look common Thursday and Friday…
With the evening update, I will look deeper into these snow chances and the overall pattern in the run up to Christmas.. Make it a good one and take care.
Thanks for the update Chris! Last night’s event shows just how even a small amount of snow can cause major problems. Your forecast was spot on and people who listened to you were much more prepared than if they listen to others, including the NWS.
Looking forward to hearing about any activity from the southern jet getting involved into our wintry pattern. I know from history that leads to our most fun and games Looking forward to the evening update!
Thanks Chris. Last nights snow was a very nice decoration for the outdoor Christmas lights. But today’s temps solidify the fact that “Baby, it’s COLD outside! Thanks for the great reporting and tweeting yesterday and last night. Stay warm everyone’s!
Still hoping someday west Ky will get some much needed snow….
The Snow Bowl near Buffalo for the Colts/Bills game…man, what a mess
“Take a look at the five and dime”.
Anyone been noticing on the gfs runs for the past 2 to 3 days showing a major storm affecting the Ohio and TN valley on Dec 22-26. Snow,rain and ice keep showing up…
Well Tim you know that rain is a sure bet then 😉
I second that Andy
I mentioned that over a week ago. Said that the week leading up to xmas will be very interesting. The warm has to battle back and with that will be a southern system to work over the cold. Come on Andy give winter a chance. LOL.
Officially 0.2 inches on snow in Lexington yesterday. I can tell you from my drive home from the very northern edge of Jessamine County to the Lansdowne area of Lexington I have NEVER seen as many wrecks as I saw yesterday around 6:00 P.M. U.S. 27 was a solid sheet of ice.