Good afternoon, everyone. It’s a much better weather day taking shape across the region, but we are still tracking a shower chance. The big news is the return of winter weather for the rest of February and a big switch to mild and stormy for early March.

Temps today are deep into the 50s and may reach the low 60s in the south. That’s especially true if we can get a few rays of sunshine to show up.

Here are your tracking toys for any shower going up…

The fun part of the program begins Wednesday as low pressure works through the region, dragging a strong cold front across Kentucky. Temps crash behind this front with rain changing to a period of light snow during the evening. From there, a strong northwest wind touches off snow showers for central and eastern Kentucky through early Thursday. With temps in the 20s, light accumulations and slick spots on area roads will be possible.

A clipper then moves quickly in behind this for Thursday night into Friday. Light accumulations are a good bet with this.

Another, albeit weaker, clipper then moves in late Friday night into Saturday with more light snow. Once again, light accumulations will be possible for some.

Here’s how the GFS sees this…

The GFS is actually pretty aggressive with the upslope snow potential in the mountains of southeastern Kentucky. Here’s the snow map from that run through Saturday…

The Canadian is actually pretty similar looking…

As March arrives Sunday, temps take off and may spike into the 50s. By early next week, MUCH milder air is pushing in here and I wouldn’t be surprised to see temps make a run at 70 at some point. This mild air may help fire up some pretty good thunderstorms as a system approaches from the west. The heavy rain potential looks to return. Here’s the GFS rainfall forecast through next week…

Ugh!

I will have the latest on WKYT-TV starting at 4pm then again on KWC this evening. Make it a good one and take care.