Good afternoon, everyone. Today is about as rough and tumble of a winter day as you can possibly get around here this early in the season. Snow is on the ground, snow showers and squalls are flying, temps are in the teens as 20s as of this writing with wind chills approaching 0 in some areas.
Where do we go the rest of the day into tonight? Let’s break it down:
- Snow showers and squalls will increase this afternoon across the eastern half of the state.These are arctic snows that won’t show up very well on radar. Light accumulations and reduced visibility will be possible. This could cause some new travel issues.
- Temps this afternoon are in for one heck of a struggle to get beyond the low 20s for much of the state. Wind chills stay in the single digits for much of the day.
- With snow on the ground and clearing overnight skies… LOOK OUT. Record cold temps will be possible and there’s the chance for the earliest single digit temps ever recorded.
- Wind chills tonight may drop to around zero at times.
Folks, this is one of the greatest early season winter weather events on record for this region. I can’t stress enough how hard it is to get any one particular event of 2″-3″ snow, record lows or bitterly cold wind chills this early in November, let alone getting all 3 at the same time.
A couple of those September analogs I threw out are really showing themselves right now. I’ll revisit those at some point this week.
I’ll have the latest on WKYT starting at 4pm and here on KWC later this evening. I’m also cutting a quick podcast that will be out this afternoon.
Until then, let’s track the wicked winter weather…
Lexington
Georgetown
Frankfort
Florence
Covington area
Louisville
Mountain Parkway near Slade
Pine Mountain
Morehead
Winchester
Maysville
London
Mt. Vernon
Have a good one and take care.
So, Who was the most left out? I listed the “usual”suspects yesterday, those being: the tri-state (one of the seven tri-states areas), south central KY, Knox county, My part of Richmond, Harlan, Lexington or Louisville.
Well, I was not disappointing. Seems old man winter is still carrying a grudge (He does that, doesn’t he?) for Lexington, Knox County and Harlan.
I am still trying to figure out how everyone can be below average. Kind of the Anti-“Lake Wobegon”. (LW is the land where all the women are strong all the men are good looking and all the children are above average.)
Who was who said, “Enjoy the weather, after all, its all the weather your going to get”?
I don’t recall anyone from Harlan commenting being left out of this event, unless I over looked someone else. I received near an inch and within Chris’s forecast. Interesting you keep posting on this topic.
Someone is just trying to stir the pot. The best thing to do is ignore.
Good point… It was an attempt at humor – probably not a good one. I stand corrected…. (This is a serious reply – not sarcastic or cynical.)
Richmond definitely not. Bubba was accurate in his previous post.
Looks like a little over 2″ with the squalls falling on snow and in the 20’s. This good be our better snow in two years. Nice snow too- Pretty to look at and not much on the road. or to shovel 🙂
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Well, I’m in Bardstown, a long-time member/commentator/fan of CB’s blog. I had right at 2″ here just outside of town. I am not complaining, being a major snow-baby for life! 🙂 Very happy to see it this early on, hoping for a snow-filled Winter season.
We’ve had light snow since 3:45pm in the Clifton area near Cherokee park. Accuweather has been extremely… accurate in forecasting even the most intricate details where other sites and models haven’t. I’m new to the area but not new to snow tracking/meteorology etc. (lived in the Seattle area for quite awhile and survived many ups and downs with snow there). I am wondering where this continuous cloud of flurries is coming from and why it’s just staying put, not complaining at all though love the white stuff.
It’s cold, there’s snow on…..but the roads are clear just about everywhere here. The weather could be a lot worse. I’m happy with what we received here.
Bundle up this evening and in the morning!
And here is to a warm up next week which hopefully lasts at least til mid December