Good Friday, everyone. As the shopping world goes crazy today, we are turning our attention toward another big ticket storm system rolling our way for the weekend. This is going to being a lot of different weather at us, with everything from thunderstorms to snow possible.
Before that system full arrives, it’s going to throw clouds and some rain at us today. Temps will continue to run seasonally chilly with showers developing from west to east from late afternoon into the evening. Here are your trackers to start things out…
Let’s give you a little breakdown of how I expect the rest of the weekend to play out…
- Occasional rain is likely from tonight through Saturday night. Some thunder and lightning could join the party from time to time.
- Rainfall totals of 1″-2″ will be possible.
- Temps will be all over the place on Saturday, but the trend will be to go from chilly early in the day, to milder in the evening. Highs may occur a little before midnight.
- Winds will be a big player this weekend and could top 40mph or a little higher.
- Sunday will be an interesting day as high temps come very early in the morning. We may even see a period of sunshine. Once into the afternoon, temps crash and clouds increase from northwest to southeast.
- Rain and snow will quickly develop by evening and then switch to wet snow Sunday night. As our winds turn northwesterly on Monday, snow showers could be fairly widespread across the central and east.
- Light snow accumulations are a good bet during this time.
The NAM only goes through Monday morning at 7am, but continues to show what I’m talking about…
This is another big wind maker and could produce 40mph+ winds…
Here’s the snow map from that run…
This continues to match what the Canadian has been saying for days and days now. The latest run is no different…
The ICON continues to see the potential for some light accumulating snows…
The GFS is still too progressive with the whole setup and that impacts the thermal profile. Still, the model is beginning to see some snow…
I will have updates later today, so check back. Have a good one and take care.
This storm coming doesn’t look much different from the last for my county. Still no signs of any Arctic air moving south. Huge high pressure ridge continues to hold in the Gulf of Mexico. Next weeks weather is forecast to be uneventful for my county. Hopefully, the high pressure in the gulf will move to the west and allow colder Arctic air to flow southward into the Ohio Valley region giving us the chance for a well defined snow system for the entire Ohio Valley by Christmas. Wouldn’t that be great snow lovers ? ! Keeping hope for the above change.
One more thing. I just looked at last years weather on this date. Folks, it is almost identical to what we are having now. One would think that by now we would have a different weather pattern with all the long range weather forecasters out there predicting so. Looks like a long term weather cycle probably cause by what is going on with our sun. I don’t know what to think about the weather the way it is anymore.
Despite all of the fuss about November’s crazy cold start, Lexington will not finish in the top ten coldest Novembers (doggone thermometer). In fact, Lexington will be closer to last November’s average than cracking the top ten. Louisville will come close to top ten, but any warmth well into the 50’s might just kill the deal.
The more things change the more they stay the same.