Good Saturday, everyone. A check of the calendar proves today to be the first day of November, but it sure feels and looks more like day one of December. Our wintry blast moved into the bluegrass state on Halloween and some snows continue to fly into part of our Saturday.
Areas across southeastern Kentucky will continue to pick up on the bulk of the snows with light accumulations a good bet. The higher elevations will pick up several inches in some cases. As expected, the rest of the region got in brief coatings and a lot of melting.
Overall, I’m a happy camper since we first talked about the potential for some flakes about a week ago. Halloween snows are VERY rare across our part of the world. Seems like we’ve been talking about a lot of rare weather events locally over the past couple of years, doesn’t it?
Let’s look ahead and see what trouble we can find in our near future.
Temps today will likely stay in the 30s across the eastern half of the state with the west reaching the 40s. Winds will make it feel even colder. Lows by Sunday morning will drop to the lowest readings of the season, so far…
High Sunday will reach the 40s under sunny skies.
Warmer air moves in for Monday into Tuesday. That’s when we watch our next weather maker roll our way with some showers late on Election Day into Wednesday…
That should be followed up by another push of colder air by the end of next week…
The pattern setting up over the next few weeks has the look of one that is just itching to send cold shots and storm systems our way…
Don’t be surprised if we aren’t talking about additional shots of winter weather before we make it to Thanksgiving. Similar to last year, Old Man Winter is showing us he’s here to play.
Have a great day and take care.
On a wetter note, Jackson and London set October monthly rainfall records
Same in Nashville and Crossville TN. But Crossville started record keeping only in the 1950s. The new October record in Nashville (8.43 inches) is impressive considering record keeping started way back in 1871.
Oct 2013 was a somewhat more typical October in Tennessee as it was fairy dry; glad my wife and I got married then instead of Oct 2014 😉 .
No accumulation in carrie of knott co over night, spitting a rain and snow mix at the moment
Even for a little bit of a dusting here in Lexington, this is way early for snow and these kind of temps. It’s awfully raw and dark/windy and yucky outside… Crazy. I keep my heat on 65 I like it cool, but I forgot to turn it on last night and when I got up it was 57 in my house!!
Additionally, my internet is usually rock solid fast with hardly any problems, but I’m noticing surfing is SLOW this morning!! I wonder if it’s the rain/wind, but anytime it has rained/stormed in the past I haven’t noticed a slow down.
That’s cold Mark…burr. I have done the same thing and when I woke up I could see my breath in the air.
Dusting on my car in Richmond overnight. I have nothing to complain about so I will just enjoy this weather.
Nothing here in Greenup co, maybe a few frozen rain drops didn’t even really look like snow! Was looking forward to seeing that dusting this morn but woke up to nothing! Oh well maybe next time! Ready for SNOW!
Maybe some little snowflake will fall here sometime today…just not yet. Plenty of cold and wind so maybe we will see. We are pretty close to Flatwoods so I guess here in the n.e. section of our state we will have to wait a while. Glad some snow fell on some people. Hope we won’t have a dome over us this winter. Steer it this way Chris!
Looking more and more like a cold & wet opening of deer season next weekend. 🙁
Some decent snows on the Tennessee Plateau; up to three inches at Crossville TN. But hard to beat the higher elevations of east TN; 16 inches at Mt. Le Conte!
The snows have stayed to the east of Nashville. According to historical records from NWS Nashville, the Music City has had 13 days in past Octobers with snow – including two days having measurable snow (including Halloween 1993). Oct 6 1952 is the earliest trace snow.
Lexington had a trace of snow officially on October 31. The only other years that had snow on 31 October were 1930, 1954, 1993, and now 2014. Will be interesting to see the climate report for 1 November as 0.1 inches is the record for the date.
Berea dome off to a strong start. Only a low of 34 degrees here in Madison last night the likely culprit. Mesonet showing none of the state went into the 20s as expected.
Friends in neighboring local areas had yard coverage and consistent car coverage. Just 10 miles south in Rockcastle and there was white on almost everything. I left my garbage cans in the middle of the driveway last night and they had zilch on them this morning. “Coating” on the house roof though, which was odd given the trash can result, so technically everything went as predicted.
Still waiting on that first actual frost. Maybe in the morning?
Truly enjoyed the snow flying in Lextown! Hard to believe it was what, close to 80 on Monday? You gotta love the variety we get around here.
looking forward to the Winter Forecast.
Thanks, Chris for all you do!
Nothing with a capital N
Got a consistent light rainfall.At times there were a few flakes mixed in but nothing that stuck on anything.Temp is at 30 right now.Everything is covered in leaves so that will be a job for me to clean up next week on the days the weather is nicer.
Not really disappointed because there is still plenty of time for snow.
Thanks Chris for all the updates.
“Seems like we’ve been talking about a lot of rare weather events locally over the past couple of years, doesn’t it?”
I DEFINATLY agree with that.