Good afternoon, everyone. Winter weather is moving back into the region tonight, bringing the potential for a slushy snowfall to parts of the region. This kicks off a weekend where we will also be on guard for another potential winter weather maker on Sunday.
Let’s take the first system and concentrate on it out of the gate. Rain develops by early evening, with a band of wet snow developing along the northern and eastern edge of this. A narrow corridor of heavy wet snow will show up, but the exact placement of this is still tough to hone in on.
Here’s my call for snowfall…
You will notice I’ve added some notes to the snow map. I’m going to start doing this will all future snow maps to avoid confusion.
Not everyone in the forecast areas will actually reach the totals, and a few may exceed them.
A Winter Weather Advisory is out for much of central and eastern Kentucky…
The NAM continues to be at the high end of the snow forecast…
The Hi Res isn’t too far behind…
The GFS is similar, but has MUCH more narrow snow band…
With all of the above maps, you can clearly see the sharp cutoff on the northern and southern edges of this thing.
Whomever gets the snow will be dealing with a very wet snow which can cover roads for a time. This action will quickly move away early Saturday, with a lot of melting ensuing.
Our next system on Sunday is not being handled well by the models. The new GFS is more spread out with the system…
The Canadian Model came north and is stronger than earlier runs…
The Hi Res NAM only goes out far enough to capture the early stages of this system, but it’s pretty far north with the low into southeastern Kentucky…
My concern is, all of a sudden on Saturday, we see the models show converge on a stronger system into southeastern Kentucky.
The south option is very much on the table, but the north option has better odds at the moment. Stay tuned!
I will update things again later today, so check back. Make it a good one and take care.
Nope, just bring on the spring…
Give me mid 90s in July. >:)
Thanks Chris. Hope this doesn’t totally scare the young foliage back into hiding, nor freeze it out either! But spring would just be best. I know you are on that bandwagon too.
Could be a interesting weather weekend here in Northeastern Pike County. I’ve been in spring mode for a few weeks now so here’s too hoping the winter weather potential doesn’t play out.
Joe bastardi just said expect that storm to go much further north than what models are showing. Kentucky heavy rain ohio heavy snow.
Sorry, but I don’t believe a word that comes out of Joe Bastard’s mouth. His reasoning for everything is that just because a certain setup in the weather now that is similar to a certain setup years ago…it’s going to do the same thing now that it did then. He usually is dead wrong…
The famous northwest shift. the hi res is right looks like we could get a decent snow here in nw ky be alright with me then I’ll be ready for spring
It’s a fast moving disturbance moving from the northwest to combined with a low pressure system along the east coast to form another Nor’Easter. These systems are weak and are moving around a trough which is currently over the Ohio River Valley. When the Nor’Easter forms it will likely deposit one to two feet of heavy snow from northeast Pennsylvania to Maine. I was hoping that we, here in Kentucky would get at lease one major snowstorm before spring or summer sets in. It just doesn’t snow anymore as much as it did when I was a child.
I hate Joe.
But his probably correct.
GFS still hits eastern Ky pretty good..6-10 heavy wet snow with limbs popping onto power lines maybe..lol..Euro looks further east into North Carolina..Hard to believe this close and models still have different outcomes..