Good Tuesday everyone. It’s an honest to goodness cold day out there across Kentucky with temps in the 30s and some morning flurries for some. We’ve finally kicked the warm pattern on outta town and replaced it with a seasonal brand of chill. So, where do we go from here? Let’s talk about that.

The short term part of the program will find a lot of clouds around the state early today and you may see a few flurries. The clouds may be very stubborn today and that’s something to watch for. Readings will be in the 30s for highs and feel even colder than that with a gusty wind blowing.

Wednesday through Friday looks pretty calm and quiet. Highs Wednesday will range from the upper 30s to low 40s and warm well into the 40s for Thursday and Friday with a 50 possible. Lows through the period will be in the upper 20s.

That brings us to the weekend and our next system moving in. An area of low pressure will work eastward into the region. Rain will overspread the state Saturday into early Sunday. That’s when cold air settles in from the northwest and our temps drop into the 30s by the end of the day. The GFS actually looks ok with this solution…

The low across the northern Ohio Valley will try to transfer energy to a coastal storm. That helps deepen the trough over us and gives us the chance for a change to light snow late Sunday into Sunday night.

There is likely to be a follow up storm diving into the lower Mississippi Valley early next week. Any storm that forms next week may deepen and be a very slow mover because it would be running into a road block. That comes in the form of a massive block across eastern Canada and Greenland…

That setup has been well advertised on the models for some time now. The European Model has been all over this for a while now and continues to show a monster setup…

Even the GFS has the idea of a big storm, but is too far southeast with it…

This is a pattern that is going to try to produce some big storms every 3 or 4 days through Christmas week. Let’s sit back and behave ourselves and maybe Santa will reward us! 😉

Have a great day and take care.