Good Tuesday everyone. We’re getting set for a taste of winter today as rain switches to snow from west to east. This should be enough to put down light accumulations for many areas as colder air rushes in. I have you set to track the transition from drops to flakes.
Here are a few thoughts on this system…
– Rain will be heavy at times early today. Some areas will pick up better than a half inch of water before the switch to snow. Today’s rain may be enough to push Lexington’s 2011 rainfall into the top spot for the wettest year on record.
– Rain will mix with and change to snow across the west this morning and that transition will reach eastern Kentucky by early evening as temps fall into the low and mid 30s.
– A lot of the snow that falls during the daylight hours will have to fight a wet ground, so expect a lot of melting. There will be some bands of snow that will be able to produce rates to overcome the wet ground and will give light accumulations to some.
– Keep an eye on areas along and near the Ohio River from Owensboro toward Covington. I wouldn’t be surprised to see some folks here get in on a slushy inch or two on elevated surfaces. The rest of the state could get a grassy coating to MAYBE a slushy inch today.
– Northwesterly winds this evening and overnight will produce widespread snow showers across central and eastern Kentucky. Another coating to MAYBE an inch would be possible during this time. Temps hitting the 20s will mean some slick spots will develop on area roads.
Let’s track today’s weather…
Current Temps
Rainfall Since Midnight
I will have updates later today and will send out some quick thoughts via twitter. Help us out by posting the weather conditions where you live.
Have a great Tuesday and take care.
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today will make 2011 the wettest year on record for lexington.
It’s official — wettest year ever for Lexington.
I recorded many inches of rain on days the airport got zilch, so areas surrounding Lex probably topped 70 inches. In the summer of 2010, we were dry as a bone. The pattern sure changed!
You’re right KP
If you look on the NOAA observed precip map since Jan 1 until now, you see parts of Fayette are in the 70 to 80 inch color bar while the airport area is in the 60 to 70 inch color bar.
to wet for snow, by time the back end get to 1 75 it be wimpy anytway. ohh whgat happen to the NEW YEARS STORM it went KAA PUFF. 50s for saturday/sunday. sunny.lol
love those models
todays song
much to young to feel this damn old by GARTH that what watching winter weather does to me.lol
Well west ky has been the spot for snow thus far this season. No different with this storm either paducah reporting HUGE SNOWflakes falling with 2.5″ on the ground. According to TWC.
I believe starting toward the end of next week will be our best shot at getting some decent snow…Euro shows a deep trough over Ohio valley with much colder air…Teleconnections looks a little better with a +PNA,NAO trying to get near neutral,AO not off the charts…Nothing too brag about but better…Of course per the norm other Models disagree…I hope the Euro stays consistent..Could get interesting for a few weeks..
reason as i posted yesterday they be no storm this weekjend NEW YEARS is the NAO is positive and it look to stay thatway well into and most JANURAY.
so all u can hold fopr what u see now a slucky coating at best. winter is a best, except for last year its been a bust for 10 years now.
For most of Central KY, last winter was a bust too, as far as big snow. A dozen mini snow events doth not maketh much snoweth funneth. 😉
We’ll take your ten years and add four more. Our five and six inch snows are now our “big ones”, but those are rare too.
The freezing line at 850mb just west of Louisville as of 9:00am.
Winds have just shifted to the west and north here in Valley Station (not quite 10 miles sw of Louisville Int’l Airport.
Evansville now reporting snow…
How much snow is on the ground in Murray/Benton/Paducah? Anyone live up that way?
u BUBBA that what meant we ghad several 5-6 inchers and alot youngster thing that winter, but as u know that aint fits.
Seems the heating of the day is fighting back some, as earlier the radar showed the snow closing in on Louisville, but now the snow line has pushed back west. Not a good sign. I think we all have seen this before, all rain, and a brief change right at the tail end that does not last more than 15-20 mins.
well here in se ky we are on the se flank of this storm at the moment with gusty sw winds temps. have made it up to almost 50*!! sitting at 47* with occasional light rain…
Suddenly the GFS is not so warm on new years, and now the nws is talking about the potential for blocking showing up at the first of the year, You know the things that Chris has been talking about for a week now. Looks like you whipped them again Chris.
I’m visiting family in Paducah right now. Finally got to see some snow, but sure isn’t any great amount. Just enough snow to put a good coating on the ground and roofs. Whatever station said we had 2.5″ must have had the decimal place wrong; closer to .25″ ha. At least the big flakes coming down hard was pretty to watch for a little while.
“eye of the storm”..lol..lol..sun poking out and thermometer is at 50!
Not expecting to see many flakes out of this. Looks like the the low will be too far north with the moisture by the time the cold air wraps in. What else is new?
Yep, moisture is fading on back edge as it moves east, same old stuff as usual for CKY! Old school track, new school results. Ky is having a north Georgia winter so far.
still rain here on my hilltop just out of Flatwoods, KY and temp 40 deg at 12:30! Hope we will see some flakes out of this!!!!!!!
Snowing in E-Town!!
Only .25″? Radar this AM looked impressive that way. How odd! Guess the ground was too warm. Looked like by radar perspective, you guys got several inches. If that was the case…I would have driven up there to see it 🙂
Some encouragement for the faint of heart, which is evident by some of the posts on here lately:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=ohx&storyid=76767&source=0
I can’t help but miss the snow. It always brightens my spirits. I hope we get some soon!!!
Christ! For those who missed out this AM, could we possibly see some “lake effect” snow showers convecting this evening. Hrrr has been hinting at it…
ya know that song: run,run rudolph!..well here ya go…lol
run,run raindrops,
hurry up and get outta town,
cause the cold air is coming,
and it wants to catch up with you now!!
so run,run raindrops,
the snowflakes just never seem to be found…lol…
Cold light rain in Morehead right now, looking at the radar, it looks to me that by the time the air is cold enough to change to snow the moisture will be gone. I just want it to freeze, tired of having muddy dogs every evening! ha
It’s been snowing here in Shelbyville for about 40 minutes now. No accumulation though.
Sorry, meant to say ‘Chris’ from earlier, not Christ! Momma raised me good not to take the good Lord’s name in vain! 😀
So glad you replied before I read it 😉
Been snowing down here in E-town for a couple of hours now. Temperatures only dropped to 36 and there has been no accumulation whatsoever.
It was pretty to look at though 🙂
No deformation zone love for southcentral-southeastern ky 🙁
Frankfort now seeing a mix, seems to snow everywhere in ky before it does in Frankfort, must be all the hot air from the politicians :)!
Whoa! And this just in! The warm-loving Joe Lundberg is siding with the EURO for next week…go figure!
Yeah even the NWS in Jackson are starting to change their tune for next week.
Snow mixing in, in Lexington.
If you looked out the window for the first time today. You would not even know it had snowed.
No signs of it sticking though. Temps dropping all afternoon.
I hope Chris brings the snow showers tonight because the central Ky radar is drying fast with the southern stream rain hose?
Sure was. Nice to see some snow during the Holidays again.
Darn! Doesn’t even look like we will even get a chance to see any snow fall let alone stick on gracy surfaces. There won’t be any precip left. Oh well.
Well the Euro is still saying a big snowstorm is in the making for somewhere in the East coast for next week..Building a big ridge out west,deep trough in the southeast with cold temps down into Flordia..Showing a cut-off in the tenn. valley moving into North georgia…If this jogs to the west(They usually do)then rolo will be hollering OLD SCHOOL…Of course this is one model so take it with a grain of salt..GO EURO KING
light flurries in Walton now. Looks like we missed the accumulation.
Snow has stopped in Shelbyville. No accumulation after 2.5 hours of snow.
Boyle County: Light mixed precip since about noon 38*
Looks like this one will go down in the record books as another T for snowfall for the LEX area, bringing our grand total for the season thus far to…a T. Meanwhile, Madison, IN is reporting 3″ for the day…
Some think of Chris that way…..
Yea, just saw on “snow-day.org” that next week the 12z Euro is showing what they call a “blizzard of biblical proportions” for somewhere in this vicinity.
I said it would be biblical in the sense that it would be a miracle. LOL! 🙂
I keep getting T’s! I’m predicting a season total of 10T 😉
i am only 15 miles southwest of madison and nothing stuck here
Louisville received 14 flakes. I counted them.
Light snow flurries in London and 37 degrees.
Light snow in London and 37 degrees.
That’s funny, but you beat us here in Nichvegas we only had 10 flakes, I counted them, all of them.
Well, you both still beat Bardstown-we had 3, maybe 4 flakes, but I’m still thinking it might be my meds….lol! 🙂
Wind is gusting to near 40MPH here in Lburg now. It’s horrible outside.
No fair, I only saw 9.
Well this definitely isn’t fair…..i haven’t seen a single flake yet!!!
A whole lot of nothing here in Morehead. Looks like the deformation zone turned out to be a non-formation zone. If it’s a rain to snow event here in KY, might as well write it off as a rain event. Unfortunately, the snowless winter rolls on! :/
LOL at the GFS at hour 264…The stuff dreams are made of..
http://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/GemPakTier/MagGemPakImages/gfs/18/gfs_namer_264_850_temp_mslp_precip.gif