Good Wednesday, everyone. The snow has ended across southeastern Kentucky and things look calm ofr  afew days, but don’t get used to it. We have a pretty loaded pattern on tap from late this week through next week and it’s likely to bring additional winter weather threats to Kentucky.

Our day is starting with quite a bit of snow on the ground in southeastern Kentucky. Several areas reported 4″ amounts and road crews were actually plowing some roads and several accidents were also reported. Numerous schools are also closed today because of the poor travel conditions, yet a Winter Weather Advisory was never issued by the NWS in Jackson.

The first system we are tracking arrives late Thursday night into Friday morning. It’s mainly a rain event, but temps will be around freezing as it arrives and that could lead to a touch of freezing rain…

Temps go above freezing pretty quickly, so rain will then take over on what looks like a gloomy day.

That system likely blows up as it works up the east coast Friday night into Saturday. That’s when a weak system dives in here behind it on Saturday and brings another round of rain and some snow…

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GFS

That gets pushed to our east by a much bigger storm coming in behind it later Sunday into Monday. This is likely a significant winter storm for the Ohio Valley into early next week. The storm can bring all modes of winter precipitation to our region…

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The Canadian looks similar to the Euro…

As usual, the GFS lives in a different world and wraps this storm up and takes it into the Great Lakes…

Right now, a lakes cutter isn’t the most viable solution. If anything, I would watch for a storm that moves more west-east than the models currently show.

I will have your usual updates later today. Make it a good one and take care.