Good Friday, everyone. We have made it to our much anticipated Christmas weekend and Mother Nature and Old Man Winter are ready to steal the show. We have the potential for flooding rains into early Saturday, then the flakes start to fly. We even have the potential to put a little snow on the ground just in time for Santa.
Rain increases from southwest to northeast today and will become heavy at times by the evening…
A general 1″-3″ of rain is likely for much of the state, with locally higher amounts possible in the south and southeast. This is where we will see the greatest potential for high water. A Flash Flood Watch is out for many areas today into Saturday.
The trend to colder continues for Saturday, with the increasing potential for a mix of rain and snow showing up across the north as temps drop…
Some models are laying down a little slush in these areas. Let’s see if that colder, quicker, look continues as we get closer.
A light snow maker then works in here for Christmas Eve, with the GFS continuing to see this a little better…
That may begin as a bit of a mix.
Here’s the current GFS snowfall map from now through Christmas Day…
Here’s a little closer look at the same model…
That’s just the model talking and not a forecast from me, but it does match up well with my earlier thoughts on the best chance for light accumulations…
The individual members of the GFS Ensembles continue to be a little more aggressive with the snow chance…
If worthy, I will put together a first call map later today.
The models continue to advertise another little light snow or flake makers zipping in here Christmas Night into Tuesday…
The pattern remains very active after that, with arctic air teaming up several systems rolling underneath the coldest air.. That means a lot of winter action across the country, as evidenced on the individual runs of the GFS Ensembles through the first few days of the New Year…
Your usual updates coming later today. Make it a great Friday and take care.
Death, taxes, and heavy rain with backside flurries..
These are the days of our Kentucky lives.
Come on now!
Why be so down, look at those tremendous GFS Esembles. (LOL)
New false hype begins again after xmas.
Please Christmas not Xmas.
Happy Xmas Schroeder!
Schroeder since you’ve made a stink about it a few times here is a history lesson for you on using X-mas, so maybe you won’t be so offended since it’s not offensive at all. Please educate yourself:
http://www.ligonier.org/blog/why-is-x-used-when-it-replaces-christ-in-christmas/
Jeff, Thanks and Merry XMAS to you. Schroeder sorry bud and a Merry Christmas to you as well.
When I was growing up in 1950’s we were prohibited to say Xmas. You say what you want to say. I can’t believe that you think that Merry Xmas sounds right. What you sent me was internet garbage. I think you all would feel better saying Merry Christmas. You never leave Christ out of Christmas. Please Peace and Merry Christmas to All.
Nobody ‘says’ Xmas they only type it. If you’re offended by Xmas and Happy Holidays, imagine how non-christians feel when people try to force them to celebrate Christmas.
Schroeder did you even read what I sent or since it’s opposite of what you want you immediately dismissed it? I say Merry Christmas all the time, but I find it funny that people get all upset with using Xmas. It’s not taking Christ out of it because X is the Greek word for Christ. What I sent even came directly from a minister, so for you to simply dismiss it as internet garage says a lot about your thought process. So since X means Christ, Merry Xmas to you Schroeder!!!
Here is what it said in case you simply dismissed it without even reading it.
There’s no X in Christmas
First of all, you have to understand that it is not the letter X that is put into Christmas. We see the English letter X there, but actually what it involves is the first letter of the Greek name for Christ. Christos is the New Testament Greek for Christ. The first letter of the Greek word Christos is transliterated into our alphabet as an X. That X has come through church history to be a shorthand symbol for the name of Christ.
We don’t see people protesting the use of the Greek letter theta, which is an O with a line across the middle. We use that as a shorthand abbreviation for God because it is the first letter of the word Theos, the Greek word for God.
X has a long and sacred history
The idea of X as an abbreviation for the name of Christ came into use in our culture with no intent to show any disrespect for Jesus. The church has used the symbol of the fish historically because it is an acronym. Fish in Greek (ichthus) involved the use of the first letters for the Greek phrase “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior.” So the early Christians would take the first letter of those words and put those letters together to spell the Greek word for fish. That’s how the symbol of the fish became the universal symbol of Christendom. There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect.
Jeff, thank you for explaining the article to me. Your right I didn’t read any of it because there are two things I don’t discuss and that’s religion an politics. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Amen, Schroeder.
Merry Christmas.
haha! anyone here that buys the GFS ensemble hype deserves the letdown they will inevitably be stricken with!
Just like the let down for this weekend.
Chris has never hyped anything. Your comment is utterly foolish.
Choo-choo
Zzzzzzz…..if you want snow move North, South, East, and West of this time known as Kentucky.
Time=the dome lol
Thanks Chris, I just want to say Merry Christmas to you and your family and Merry Christmas to all at wkyt in Lexington, Kentucky. Thanking you and all others for keeping everyone informed. God Bless and Peace for all.
I second this message! Merry Christmas and thank you for ALL that you do for us, Chris!
Schroeder~If you insist on punctilious correctness then YOU are falling short of the standards you set for others. Christmas starts on the 25th of December and ends with Epiphany on the 6th of January. Yep. Those are the 12 days of Christmas. So my wish/Greeting to you is: ‘Blessed Advent’.
Festive flakes are better than nothing. As someone stated the other day, the models for outlooking snow have become boys that cry wolf.
Once again…you guys can be so annoying…the most negative people I have ever seen…some flakes are better than no flakes…who let all the scrooges in here?
Thank you Corey and Merry Christmas to you and your family.
So everyone seems to be let down about the little snow we may or may not get over the CHRIStmas Holiday, I for one am not. I like the thought that we may have some festive flakes flying around for the big holiday. For those of you that get excited about the models two weeks and a week out you need to stop. They are just models and have always, and I mean always, been overdone with the amount of precipitation to fall. Only one to really trust is the NAM and that is due to the fact that it is a loop of only 84 hrs. and by that time all the other models have come around. With all that being said, has anyone looked at the models and the late week Blizzard heading through Southern Indiana and part of KY. I am 100% sure we will be slipping and sliding come next Weekend and that we will have a White New Year.
This probably will happen, as the only time we get a winter storm is when I need to travel North. I’m leaving the 29th for Chicago. So, yea, here we go! Blame it on me winter weather haters.
12z GFS showing more moisture and wider coverage of the light snow for Christmas.
Not sure why my comment got attached with the c-BIV/Bjenks comments, but it did.
With all this rain and then it turning cold the roads could be an icy mess. Stay safe everyone and Merry Christmas!
I know we have some snow chances showing but I am curious if the second half of winter is still thought to be warmer. I remember reading that around that the first half would be colder than normal and then warmer the second half.
Happy Saturnalia everyone!
No thanks
Christmas traditions are a ripoff of numerous pagan celebrations, Saturnalia included.
Tomorrow, on the 23rd of December 2004, all of southern Indiana was in the path of a major snowstorm, which accumulated to thirty three inches in Salem, Indiana. Salem holds the state record for the most snowfall in any one storm. I was living in Evansville at that time where twenty two inches was recorded at Dress Regional Airport. Great White Christmas that I will never forget. Maybe this year Kentucky will enjoy the same.