Good afternoon, everyone. Our spring snowmaker is looking a little better organized and a touch slower. This should bring a swath of history making snows across much of the state tonight into Saturday.

As mentioned before, the bar is low for historic snows for the month of April. If we use Lexington as our baseline, it only takes 1″ to become one of the top 10 snowiest Aprils of all time. My updated call for snowfall shows many areas with the potential to eclipse that…

I’ve opened up by range to include much more real estate, because the swath of snow looks healthier and will last deeper into Saturday. I’ve also tried to highlight the southeastern mountains, where some higher amounts may occur. Instead of ending early, the snow band may linger into the afternoon, especially across the east…

As we inch closer to this, you can see how the storm is just a little strung out. This is turning out to be a much closer call with a crusher than it looked like yesterday. Gotta watch for last minute trends tonight.

A Winter Weather Advisory is out for much of central and eastern Kentucky…

Obviously, I think those should be expanded to include much of the state.

I will be updating the forecast on WKYT-TV starting at 4pm. This will include a new call for snowfall, that will be constantly updated as I see new information.

In the meantime, let’s track some showers into parts of the region…

I will have another update this evening. Have a good one and take care.