Happy New Year, everyone. It’s a bitterly cold day, with a light snow blanketing the ground in many areas. Those northwesterly flow snow showers we talked about, certainly did the trick. As temps continue to run bitterly cold, this pattern is threatening to lock in for the long haul.

I have no changes in the temperature department tonight or through the rest of the week. Vanceburg hit -4 this morning and areas of northern Kentucky can approach -10 in a few spots tonight. The rest of the state ranges from -5 to +5. Wind chills go from -5 to -15 at times.

Wednesday is the “warmest” day of the week with temps only upper single digits and low teens to start. Highs range from the low 20s north to near 30 south. This is ahead of a strong upper level trough digging in here, helping develop a winter storm across the southeast coast…

That storm becomes a monster and rides the east coast, pulling down another bitterly cold at mass into our region. Northwesterly winds will then bring snow showers and squalls for Wednesday night into Thursday. Just like with this past weekend’s snows, I’m riding the Canadian…

The American models like the GFS and NAM just cannot figure out these systems on a northwesterly flow. The same run of the Canadian Model puts some snow down all the way into Tennessee…

With such bitterly cold air in place, we would be looking at a much higher ratio than what is shown above.

A disturbance behind that will then dive in here, potentially bringing a swath of light snow by Friday.

Temps from Thursday through the weekend can be similar to what we are seeing out there early this week. Wind chills may be even colder.

The models continue to trend colder with the setup from late weekend into early next week, with another brutal shot of air coming in. I expect these runs to keep sinking south with the precipitation lines…

I will have another update later today, so check back. Happy New Year and take care.