Good afternoon, folks. As a major winter storm blasts the southeast and turns into a blizzard by the time it reaches the northeast, we are watching an arctic front and snow showers moving into Kentucky. This front will reinforce our bitterly cold air, with a possible mess lurking by late in the weekend.

The short term models are beginning to pick up on the northwesterly flow snow showers from tonight through Thursday. Even though the models cannot fully capture the extent of the coverage, they have an idea…

NAM

Hi Res NAM

You will also notice the band of light snow streaking from the northwest by Thursday night and Friday. The models are finally seeing the little sneaky system. I’ve been showing you that on the upper level charts for several days now. That could very well bring a period of light snow and flurries across parts of the state to end the week on Friday.

For the short-term snow showers, I have no changes to my ideas…

A lot of the overnight and Thursday snow showers may not show up on radar, given the very low water content of the flakes. Here’s regional radar to track the action in from the northwest…

Bitterly cold temps crash back in for Thursday through Saturday. Lows will generally be from 0 to +10 on Thursday morning, then drop to -5 to +5 by Friday and Saturday. Wind chills during this time will be solidly below zero and into the danger category.

Our late weekend system is likely to create travel issues across the region. The GFS has come in on the colder side, taking the low just to our south. That brings a messy mix of precipitation…

Snow

Freezing rain

Let me once again talk about the frozen ground. It does not matter what type of precipitation us actually falling from the sky, you can get icy roads to develop because of the cold ground temp. The low-level cold air is going to be tough to move out to begin with, but even if temps do go above freezing, the ground won’t

I will have an update on WKYT starting at 4pm and back here on KWC later this evening. Make it a good one and take care.