Good evening and welcome to the Christmas weekend. Rounds of heavy rain continue to press across the region, bringing the potential for local high water issues. That will be followed by the increasing potential for light snow on Christmas Eve.
Let’s begin with the rain train and the potential for heavy rain totals. A general 1″-3″ of rain is likely, with the potential for higher amounts in the south…
The rain slowly tapers off from west to east on Saturday and it may end as a bit of a mix across parts of the region. Some wet snow tries to mix in with the rain across northern and western parts of the state…
A little slush is possible across the far north.
Our next system rolling in here on Sunday into Christmas eve continues to show up a little stronger. The GFS continues to bring light snow to the entire region…
That begins a mix, but quickly goes over to light snow and flurries from west to east. The GFS is showing the light accumulations in our region…
With a wet ground, we should see some initial melting, with that changing once the sun sets and temps drop. Given the wet roads and temps dropping quickly into the upper 20s, icy roads are a possibility late Christmas Eve into Christmas morning.
A few flurries are left in the east for Christmas morning, with the potential for another light snow or flake maker arriving by Christmas night. The NAM shows this pushing in…
The Euro has it too…
All of this will be followed up by a bigger system rolling in a few days later…
A full update comes your way tonight, so check back. Make it a good evening and take care.
Thanks CB! Festive flakes FTW! Better than warm and rain 🙂
Exciting!
So far the heavy rain has missed my area thankfully we still have a half inch of rain.
Hardly any rain in Richmond yet. Just some light stuff.
I was in Richmond earlier this evening
Bubba you are wrong.
Light rain is all I saw when I was up there.
Heavy rain in J town
Wow, nws just drastically changed the precip map, moved the heaviest rain several counties north.
Radar looks to be a little north if the original path for heavy rain. Snow and cold didn’t work out for December.. Hopefully get most of snow in January and move on to warmer days. Did the analog years have a cold December?
Thankful the rain has pushed north of Knox County at least for now.
The 00z GFS run for next week shows about 18 hours of light freezing rain for southern KY. Bleh.
Expect plain rain
Can you explain your reasoning why just “Plain Rain”..Give us a little detail with maps and explain to us common folk’s what’s going on in the next 6 days to become just “plain Rain”..Would like to know your reasoning or your understanding of what the mode’s are showing..