Good afternoon, folks. After a frigid morning, the sun is helping boost temps into the 30s this afternoon. As we roll ahead, we are dealing with a very active setup later this week through next week. It’s one that will likely bring all forms of precipitation to Kentucky.

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In terms of the weather, things pick up late Thursday night into early Friday as a system moves in from the south. This will bring rain in here on Friday and this could begin as a touch of freezing rain, especially in the valleys. That system then turns into a big storm along the east coast as a weaker system moves in here from the northwest on Saturday. That would bring rain and some snow through Saturday night.

Here’s how the GFS is seeing this…

A bigger system will quickly follow that up from Sunday afternoon through early next week. This should bring all modes of precipitation to the bluegrass state and looks like an Ohio Valley winter storm.

The GFS continues to be on an island in how it handles this system…

The low is likely to be much more west to east compared to what the GFS shows. This looks like a setup where one low runs toward West Virginia or the southern Appalachian Mountains, with another low forming just east of it. The Canadian is trying to show this. Here’s what that model looks like with the weekend system and the one following it…

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