Good afternoon, everyone. I wanted to drop by for a very quick update on the blast of winter rolling across the state to start the week. Frigid northwesterly winds are howling as snow showers continue to increase. This action will wind up causing some slick spots later tonight.
Watch how the strong northwesterly wind flow keeps snow showers developing through Tuesday for many, and into Wednesday AM across the southeast…
The models continue to spit out light accumulations…
NAM
Canadian
Even the GFS is FINALLY seeing the wraparound snow showers…
Those models match up with the map I put out last night…
As mentioned, some slick travel may develop after dark and carry us into Tuesday. It doesn’t take a lot of snow to cause slick spots when temps drop into the low and middle 20s like they will tonight. Highs on Tuesday may stay in the 20s for the central and east. Wind chills will be rather brutal by November standards.
The serious cold lifts out by Thursday as a weak system moves in. We are on guard for some sleet or freezing rain on the leading edge of this…
That will be followed by a big wind and rain maker this weekend as temps rebound for a few days. After that… Look out. A very harsh winter pattern will try to take shape next week and take us through the middle of December.
I will have the latest on the cold and snow coming up at 4pm on WKYT-TV. I will also throw you an update later this evening. Until then, here are your tracking tools…
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Hamburg Area from WKYT Studio
Lexington
I-75 @ Newtown Pike
Lexington
I-75 MP 127
Georgetown
I-64 at KY-801
Near Morehead
I-64 MP 97
Winchester
Mountain Parkway @ MP 36
Near Pine Ridge
Florence
Covington
Louisville
E-town
I-65 MP 36
Near Bowling Green
Enjoy the day and take care.
Weather has a way of evening itself out a lot times…would be about right for a rough December patch of weather up til about the 20th, then the week of Christmas we get the blowtorch for a few days.
That’s exactly what Rodger is expecting to happen. He’d rather have the cold and snowy during Christmas. Oh well, beggars can’t be choosers. Rodger in Dodger
Probably not going to happen exactly like that.
While I am a warm weather person, even I like a little snow Christmas day even if it’s uncommon. Christmas 2010 comes to mind as Bowling Green, Nashville TN, Huntsville AL got a few inches snow. I recall the roads were mainly wet so one could enjoy the festive flakes with minimal travel issues.
Parts of Arkansas including Little Rock had a foot of wet heavy snow Christmas day 2012. Widespread power outages and collapsed structures perhaps made it a bit too much of a White Christmas!
Not trying to be all negitive but if you look at all models everyone consistently shows warm up rain then cold flurries all the way thru the long term.
My Thoughts exactly. It has mostly been that way since 2010 in my area. We did have one big storm in 2016 but that was it for year. These clipper/northwest flow systems are all bark and no bite.
I was having similar thoughts. Maybe Chris is only comfortable mentioning up to the middle of December then as we get closer hopefully he will continue to forecast a winter pattern through the end of the year?!?!
Chris,
Do you foresee these artic blasts all winter long or are we just in a period of them right now? I shudder to think what January will bring when November has been cold, damp, rainy, and flurries. Is this a pattern you expect us to be in all winter?
I am probably going to get slammed to the ground with this comment, and I really don’t care. I’ll make it short.
Last Winter, the models ALL went totally NUTS when it came to snowstorms. I know that I was REALLY hyped, although I, and everyone else, KNEW it was a shot in the dark for most of them…
I’m kinda thinking this year might be a BIT different??! (Never know, though…)
Nothing wrong with your comment☺. I agree and think we get a lot more than last year as the atmosphere appears more favorable with a Modoki El Nino and blocky pattern….fingers crossed moving forward, especially for far SE KY!
No need to slam you for stating fact. Most of us got sucked into the model hype and 9 out of 10 times the models were dead wrong. Don’t think this year will be any different…if and when we get slapped with a big one, it’s quite likely no model will see it until a day or 2 out.
If you were to take the GFS for gospel when it comes to snow. Then every year Kentucky should average 70 inches of snow.
Looks like just the northern part of Ky is going to get the snow, nothing for central ky
600% chance of a trace of snow. Another hyped up forecast….first with the worst. Going to be a long winter with all this hype. Better head back to Twitter to get the answers…