Good Wednesday everyone and thanks for all you do for the blog. Snow showers and squalls have been going strong all day across central and eastern Kentucky. These have put down a ton of snow in some areas. Parts of eastern and southeastern Kentucky are already nearing 5 or 6 inches of fresh snow. These areas will pick up several more inches through tonight and this may bring snow totals in a few spots to near 10 inches!
Farther west and north… snows will not be as heavy with additional totals of 1- 3 inches through tonight. Track the snows here…
Gusty winds are creating blowing and drifting snows and reducing visibilities to near 0 at times. This is a wild weather day for a lot of people across the state. Travel is flat out nasty across much of the region.
Snows will taper off to lighter snow showers and flurries overnight and a few of these will hang tough into Thursday in the east.
Looking down the road… a light snow and flurry maker moves in late Friday into Saturday. The blog has been talking up the late weekend and early next week snow threat for several days now and my confidence is growing. A prolonged winter storm is possible from Sunday through Tuesday as an arctic wave/low pressure moves through. It is possible I ramp this up to THREAT mode later today or tonight.
I told ya this winter was gonna be fun! 
Keep posting your weather and take care.
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There’s nothing in Woodford but a few small flurries. I see the snowdome over us in the radar! See it MikeM?
DOME is in FULL effect, even with the light snow…
“I told ya this winter was gonna be fun!” 😉 Thanks, Chris!
We have light flurries in Ashland right now. I’m not sure how many inches, but the boys will be headed out later and can relay the message.
got close to 6 inxhes in manchester er i l;ive, 25 degres with light snow falling.
Snow is coming down here along the Virginia border. Black Mountain sits at my back door and I can’t see it because of the snow…
Probably 4+ inches as of right now. Temperature 26.
its not the SNOWDOME, u all never get much during lake effect/upslope in central ky.
nothing to do with SNOWDOME/MAKEBELIEVE IN UR HEADDOME.lolllllll
Hey, don’t taunt us! 😉
CB, could LEX and surrounding counties (i.e. Jessamine) get theirs this next storm? Or is it more of the same?
Hard to get a measurement here in Powell Co because of all the drifting. I am guestimating 6″ and still snowing!! Thanks CB you’re the best!!
Here at my house about 10 miles north of Hazard, I estimate about 5-6 inches of snow on my back deck. It’s the light, fluffy variety, which, in my experience, can pack down to the slickest kind of ice on highways. I don’t plan on getting our today. It has snowed steadily all day here. We got NO snow here yesterday. It was all rain. The snow began just after dark last night.
Everyone out there take care if you have to travel, and be safe.
I’ve been watching it all day. I know people get tired of hearing about the dome but you can’t deny it. Whether a system comes from north,south east or west there is always a big hole right over central ky.
I predict a BIG DADDY SNOW yet, fact is some of the biggest i remember came in late Feb and early March so its not over yet folks..
We never get much period. Doesn’t matter if it’s lake effect or whatever.
There isn’t anything such as a snow dome… and people that there is a snow dome are just stupid!
People named Allison are idiots. Sorry but you asked for it.
MikeM you are just stupid! and i take it you enjoy verbally abusing women.. are you a abuser?
4-6″ on the ground in my part of knox co. as well…and its still snowing, not as hard as it was earlier but big fluffy flakes still falling….
To answer that question in the headline…nope not wicked enough! In Wayne Co. we had a 5 1/2 inch snow a couple weekends ago….maybe 2 on the ground today. I’m hoping business picks up next week!
Okay, I know this has been said on numerous occasions, but the Snow dome is a running joke. Calling people idiots just because they have fun with it is immature and will not be tolerated. Chris has warned about posts such as that before and I think he was very clear about it.
Stuck at work here, how much snow on the ground in London and laurel co?
Lets tone it down a bit…Play nice..:)
Hey Russ if I was guessing right around 6″, dont know where your driving from, but its still snowing as well…
I have a about 4 inches in my area of Whitley Co……Looks to be still snowing but the snow here is going sideways and up and down..wind is still really kicking at times. Nice day to stay in and watch the snow.
Kiddos will be in school till July at this rate! But I’m not complaining I Love the snow!!!!!!
Getting excited about the Sunday-Tuesday system…..! Let’s hope ALL of Ky. gets in on this one. Come on Chris, hype it up…We’re ready!!!!!!!
Play nice or don’t play at all……Didn’t your mommas ever tell you if you didn’t have anything nice to say, don’t say it at all…..
Remember KIDS read this blog too….
I just applied for a moderator job at KYWEATHERCENTER,
be more than happy to put guys like MIKE M in a timeout for calling a poster a idiot for no reason.
Just been out diggin’ out my dog. Measured umpteen times along the way to his house. Now have a good 6 inches here in Staffordsville, Johnson Cty.
yea its time to look ahead and see what the next 2 weeks bring, cold air going be in place for much of this time.
Thanks Moderator. Hopefully the meanspiritedness will subside.
Looks like more than 5 inches of snow here at my house about 10 miles north of Hazard in Perry Co.
This snow has all fallen since just after dark last night. Yesterday we got all rain here. The snow has fallen pretty steadily all day.
Highways are slick. Stay safe everyone.
They probably never watched Bambi!!lol
Waiting on THREAT mode for next system coming in on Sunday…….is everyone ready…!!!!!!!!!
Wait a minute…theres another storm?!?!?! Is this suppose to be as bad as this storm? Maybe even worse?
Mr. Moderator….in all fairness allison needs a time out too. She did call people stupid!
hey gang…J.B. has a video this morning on the upcoming storm that Chris mentioned for the upcoming weekend, he has Ky in the center of what he is calling a POSSIBLE MAJOR SNOWSTORM…it should be up on the free site, so go check it out…and he also did mention winter would last through March..and that April would be particularly nice…LOL…SO if you want spring ROUTE FOR APRIL..I GUESS…lol..lol..
Still pouring the snow here in knox co..havent took a recent measurement but I would say another 1/2″ to an inch has fallen in the past couple hrs or so…
Russ, here in East Bernstadt, we’ve picked up approx 5″. It’s still snowing at a fairly steady rate.
dont be rude tina, i find it rude that you post after me, telling me to play nice, when its clear that mikem was that one started harassing me, dont know about you, but where i come from women dont let men walk all over them.
what website?
It would probably be good for CB to start being more area specific for the threats, since none have been a general state event and all ave either been north, south, east or a combo of those.
The Dome has taken my mojo, so I can no longer call myself “BubbaG” and must preface with “Artist formally known as”.
BubbaG is cursed until a big snow falls on snowdome central.
Love this blog and the wonderful, wicked winter weather we are having. Thanks everyone for making this blog so interesting and fun. 🙂
BubbaG…oh excuse me, TAFKABubbaG,
You are a GOOFBALL!
Gotta love ya!!!
WICKED ENOUGH FOR ME,CHRIS!!! I LOVE IT!!!
It is hard to get a good measurement, We only have 2″ on the ground most of the snow has blown to Laural Co. 27*
I think we all know there is no such thing as the snow dome or a snow dome. but it is just something fun to blame all the missed snow on. so lets just be nice and have fun. Like Bubbas snow enama. that was the best.lol.
Well, i’m going to be the optimist. Lexington has broken the 15 inch mark in snowfall for the season for the first time in seven years.
Less than 1 more inch will be the snowiest season since 1997-1998, and 5 more inches sinces 1995-1996.
Seems like the dome has at least been dented.
I just drove up to Union, KY to housesit for my brother and there is at least 10 inches here on the ground and it’s still snowing at the moment. Drove from Pulaski county and we had about 2-3 inches in my neck of the woods and it was snowing hard there was good steady snow up til about Lexington then it tapered off and was snowing again up here.
Do you hear that? … I think it is the hammer warming up and getting ready to be dropped.
Hi Patty! I see it too….crazy how we can split a good snow right down the middle.
🙂
Hey Tim, can you tell me where to go click that site at?? thanks alot.
13 inches in my front yard, for the doubters i have pics on my facebook, and the ruler is dissapeared! WINTER STORM BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hope we get nailed sunday/monday!!!
Did the 12Z models lose the clipper system on Sunday? Doesn’t look as good as it did yesterday.
That’s true Rolo…but so far this, Ol Man Winter has been using most of KY for target practice and we here in Central KY have hardly even had to FLINCH! 🙂
I’m still hopeful to be the bullseye one of these times. How’s your billy goat?
congrats on the pow tim!!! aint it wonderful?!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i hope ky gets HAMMERED on sunday!!! snow baby!!!!!!!!!!! a blizzard would be GROOVY!!!!!!
Todd Borek just showed at noon today the jet stream dropping low into the US the next 2 weeks and called for very cold and active pattern.
Oh no, BubbaG! Come back… come back…
GOOD strategy bubba g we have 13 inches on the ground here with drifts from heaven! nothing like a winter storm!!!!! very cold though!
yea i had to fell lex because of it, i just go to the point of tears whenever a snow threat never panned out 🙁 but up here about 1 mile from the river things are very different snow is bigggg@ssssss!!!!
I’m not Tim, but the website is http://www.accuweather.com. Videos are on the right hand side.
Clippers are flaky this early on for models. CB has more info, so if he is confident, should be good.
CB’s history with clipper systems is very good. Just wish us central KY folks could get some big snow luv 🙁
I gotz du’ snowman bluuuuess (obligatory guitar break) Yeah, babeee, I gotz du’ snowman bluues…
I figured u was smiling….
this is the latest gfs on the clipper:http://wxcaster.com/gis-gfs-snow-overlays.php3?STATIONID=PAH
that would put almost all of ky in a 6-8 zone with temps in the mid 10s and some models suggesting up to .7 qfp and ratios at 20 to 1 this could become a full blown snowstorm for alot of us. going to be very interesting to watch.
Apparently the idea of speaking figuratively is lost on you, not to mention the ability to put together a coherent sentence…
Massive Props to Chris for nailing this one being an overachiever… I blew totals for eastern KY. The lake enhanced upslope is unreal right now.
Hear, hear!
This is so depressing! We want to see blooming flowers! lol
We wanna tippy toe through the tulips!
Sorry gang!
The years of non big snows have taken a toll and my sad pathetic illisions of grandeur are now more. No they are just sad:(
The Dome has a the rights to “BubbaG” and the only way to null the contract is a bog snow to defeat the dome’s reign of terror. I am kind of like Rapunzel stuck up in the tower. Problem is, I aint’ got the hair to make it on down on my own- I need the big snoooow to break my falllll 🙁
She did make a blanket statement calling just about everyone on this forum “stupid”.
This is one heck of a ride folks. Kudos to Chris for calling this one to be an over achiever. This forecaster got burned by this one.
AND……………..It’s STILL THERE! Melissa and MikeM Maybe we should move over the 50 mile radius!
WOW…southern Mississippi is now under a WSW for friday night for 3-5″ of snow…
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jan/
That’s a pretty picture for next Monday for us in Central Kentucky (Lexington). Shows a good 6-7″ essentially at the start of the storm!
WooHoo!!
Welcome back to TAFKABubbaG!
The temperature is 29 degrees in Menifee County with some light snow falling. We have anywhere between 4 to 5 inches and this is just since last night. It’s had to tell because the wind has blown it everywhere. Some melting is occurring on the roads, sidwewalks, and decks.
See, my grammar is almost Rolo-level. Biiiig Snoooow where R U? Central KY is a callin Uuuuuu!
I guess a link would be nice…
http://www.twisterdata.com/index.php?prog=forecast&model=GFS&grid=3&model_yyyy=2010&model_mm=02&model_dd=10&model_init_hh=00&fhour=138¶meter=SNOWIN&level=SURFACE&unit=none&maximize=n&mode=singlemap&sounding=n&output=image&view=large&archive=false
I’m only seeing western KY when I click that link.
LOL…I told you yesterday to quit giving us bad news…
Did you see where parts of LA. and southern MISSISSIPPI are now under WSW’s for friday!! 3-5″ expected down there…WHat a winter pattern!!!
The temperature is 29 degrees in Menifee county with light snow falling. We have between 4 to 5 inches of snow which fell since last night. It’s hard to get a good measurements as the wind has blown the snow everywhere. There is some melting occurring on the roads, sidewalks, and decks.
This looks pretty impressive
http://wxcaster4.com/animate/gfs_loops.php3?type=SFC_ACCUMPRECIP
Sun is shining in SW LEX.
that is one over-achieving link, that’s for sure!
Tommy, you are definitely in the sweet spot. I grew up near Marion, Ohio, which is about an hour north of Columbus. 5-6 feet of annual snowfall was the norm. I’ve lived here in Nicholasville for about 4 years now, and I think you could take the last 4 winters, add up all the snowfall totals, and It would not equal 1 Northern Ohio winter. LOL! Its amazing the difference 250 miles South makes!
I’d tell a guy the same thing.
Oh how gut wrenching for snow geese in ky !!!!!
URGENT – WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE…UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1055 AM CST WED FEB 10 2010
…HEAVY SNOW ACCUMULATIONS EXPECTED FOR THURSDAY NIGHT INTO
FRIDAY…
A WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE THURSDAY NIGHT
THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
SNOW IS EXPECTED TO OVERSPREAD THE REGION LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON
AND THURSDAY EVENING. SOME SLEET OR RAIN COULD MIX WITH THE SNOW
AT THE ONSET OF THE PRECIPITATION BEFORE CHANGING TO ALL SNOW.
THE SNOW WILL THEN CONTINUE INTO THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY…AND
WILL BECOME HEAVY OVERNIGHT. THE SNOW IS THEN EXPECTED TO TAPER
OFF FROM WEST TO EAST ON FRIDAY. TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE
EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM 2 TO 5 INCHES ACROSS SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
AND EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA…THOUGH THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR
SOME LOCATIONS TO RECEIVE MORE THAN HALF OF A FOOT OF SNOW
……..
BUBBA, get a ticket today and head south before it hits…:)
And besides that Allison, I apologized in advance. I said sorry but you asked for it.
ThanksNiel, She called a lot of people on this blog stupid and for that i said what I said. Typically i don’t respond like that and I shouldn’t bring myself down to their level but lately there are a lot of people saying things that they shouldn’t. My
http://wxcaster.com/gis-gfs-snow-overlays.php3?STATIONID=LVX
very begining of the storm. qfp qith this thing is nuts!
yea, this next system looks to hammer us too, i am not worried about mixing really at all for anywhere in ky.
Care to explain that a little? Cause all I’m understanding is that Lexington is getting three inches from that map.
Sun is breaking out in Frankfort. Can we hit the freezing mark?
I would love to see school out the rest of the week.
A FEW POINTS:
FIRST, YOU NEED TO LEARN TO TYPE IN COMPLETE SENTANCES.
SECOND, YOU OBVIOUSLY ARE NOT VERY BRIGHT YOURSELF, AS THE SNOWDOME HAS BEEN A CONTINUING JOKE ON THIS BLOG FOR SEVERAL YEARS. NO, WE DO NOT ACTUALLY BELIEVE THERE IS A BIG GLASS OR PLASTIC DOME OVER CENTRAL KY. 🙂
THIRD,
WHAT KIND OF LOW-LIFE PIECE OF TRASH CALLS SOMEONE OUT ON A WEATHERBLOG FOR HAVING SOME FUN BLAMING A LACK OF SNOW ON A “FIGURATIVE DOME”. SERIOUSLY, I BET YOUR MOTHER DISOWNED YOU FOR BEING SO IGNORANT. DO US ALL A FAVOR AND TAKE A LONG WALK OFF A SHORT PIER, YOUR ARE DIRTYING UP OUR GENE POOL…
The temperature is 29 degrees in Menifee county with light snow falling. We have between 4 to 5 inches of snow which fell since last night. It’s hard to get a good measurements as the wind has blown the snow everywhere. There is some melting occurring on the roads, sidewalks, and decks.
Okay, now that the Snow Train has left the station, I would to get off!! I’ve lived here in Kentucky since April 1994 and I’ve never had a day like today. Our driveway is well over half a mile long and the bottom fourth of it has snow drifts that go halfway up my car. I had to get a small poodle to an important vet appointment today so I rolled on down the hill, crossed my fingers, closed my eyes and slid my way to the road. Then I drove through whiteout conditions for seven miles, then it was okay except for parts of Paris Pike. Coming home, it was worse as far as the whiteout parts of Bourbon County, and then I turned into the bottom of my driveway and looked up the hill at a wall of snow. I couldn’t even get the gate to open. The wind was blowing so hard that it looked like I was crying. I had to hike home, up to my knees in snow, up the hill, while carrying a small poodle zipped up in my coat.
Definitely a brand new experience for this Texan.
Boyle County- Snow 32*
http://stormtracker.yolasite.com/
You ned to learn to spell ding dong…LOL….WHAT KIND OF LOW-LIFE PIECE OF TRASH CALLS SOMEONE OUT ON A WEATHERBLOG? ask ytourself looks like you would know lol
I MISPELLED “SENTENCES” IN MY RANT…MY APOLOGIES
WXman……I might of asked you this before but oh well. What part of Frankfort are you in? I am on the east side off of 421. I was shocked to see the sun coming out….it was almost blinding there for a minute!! I opened the door this morning to let the dogs out and you should of seen the snow that blew back in the house!!
Shuuuut up and make me a pie! 😉
AHHH YES, I WAS WAITING FOR ANOTHER ONE OF YOUR SNIDE REMARKS, POINTING OUT I MISSPELLED A WORD, AND POINTING OUT MY HYPROCRACY IN CALLING ATTENTION TO PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF. YOU GET A GOLD STAR FOR THE DAY…
I know we have our own issues but….North Carolina mountains are under a Blizzard Warning. http://www.highcountrywebcams.com/webcameras_BannerElk.htm
we have about 3″ here in Belfry of Pike Co.
NOAA is now saying 5-9″ for the rest of the afternoon and 3-5″ tonight
i just find that to be unreal.
Any thoughts???????
Finally, a voice of reason,
Well that is a lousy Howdy-do, but glad you were able to get to/from EVENTUALLY.
How is your poodle/pup? (I have one too, they are the best!)
🙂
hey everyone, 6 inches of snow here in southern part of Magoffin county.. I’m ready that there could be a snow storm heading our way Sunday.. whats everyones take on the next storm.. is this the big one…lol
Artist formally kwn as BubbaG
maybe the “SNOW DOME” was created by global warming and the holes we see break thru every now and then are from people using their Aqua Net Hairspray so if we all start using it maybe we can burst this “SNOW DOME”!!!!
Curse you Al Gore and your darn global warming!!! LOL
The “dome” is not an absolute thing that prevents snow, just “big snows”. We have a had a few years with decent totals, but they were literally 1″ and 2″ events ALL winter. Fellow bloggers will recall this.
The whole running joke about the dome and it’s premise is our lengthening gap between big snows. Went from an average of every two years to six times that (and counting?)- In spite of many many many opportunities that go all around us, hence the “dome”. 😉
2009-10 now 3rd Snowiest Year on Record at Jackson
THANKS TO TODAY/S SNOWFALL OF 4.6 INCHES AS OF 1 PM…THE 2009-10
SNOW SEASON TOTAL IS CURRENTLY 40 INCHES EVEN. THIS IS GOOD ENOUGH
FOR 3RD PLACE ON THE SNOWIEST YEAR/S LIST.
THE 2009-10 SNOW SEASON ONLY TRAILS…1995-96 WITH 62.7 INCHES AND
1993-94 WITH 48.3 INCHES. THE FORMER 3RD PLACE TOTAL WAS 36.9 INCHES
BACK IN 1986-87…WHICH WAS PASSED EARLIER TODAY.
Not me….have a cruise planned already for 2nd week in June, whole family 23 of us and there are a few teachers in the group. They may need to go to school over spring break to make up 5 of those days……!
As far as the clipper goes on Sunday/Monday, are the animation loops of precipitation to which people have linked from the 6Z or 12Z runs?
Allison needs to stop talking and make us bloggers some pie! 😉
Artist formally kwn as BubbaG –
maybe the “SNOW DOME” was created by global warming and the holes we see break thru every now and then are from people using their Aqua Net Hairspray so if we all start using it maybe we can burst this “SNOW DOME”!!!!
Curse you Al Gore and your darn global warming!!! LOL
The temperature is 29 degrees in Menifee county with light snow falling. We have between 4 to 5 inches of snow which fell since last night. It’s hard to get a good measurements as the wind has blown the snow everywhere. There is some melting occurring on the roads, sidewalks, and decks.
I just shoveled 7″s of Global Warming out of my front yard in Oak Hill, WV.
Latest from Louisville NWS:
LATEST SUITE OF LONG TERM MODEL SOLUTIONS ENTAILING BOTH THE DETERMINISTIC AND ENSEMBLE RUNS ARE IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH BRINGING A POTENT CLIPPER SYSTEM THROUGH THE REGION DURING THE DAY ON SUNDAY AND INTO SUNDAY NIGHT. THIS SYSTEM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF SIGNIFICANT WINTERY PRECIPITATION TO THE REGION. WHILE THE MODELS AND ENSEMBLE SOLUTIONS AGREE THAT THE SYSTEM WILL CERTAINLY AFFECT THE REGION…THERE ARE SOME CRITICAL DIFFERENCES IN THE ACTUAL TRACK AND THERMAL PROFILE THAT WILL MAKE THIS ANOTHER CHALLENGING FORECAST.
BOTH THE 12Z GFS AND EURO SOLUTIONS BRING AN INITIAL SHOT OF PRECIPITATION INTO THE REGION EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. THE GFS IS SLIGHTLY FASTER WITH ITS PRECIPITATION THAN THE EURO. WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION SEEMS RATHER LIKELY ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION ON SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT. AS THE SFC LOW HEADS OFF TO THE EAST…THE CLOSED H5 LOW WILL MOVE OVER THE REGION ON MONDAY BRINGING ANOTHER ROUND OF SNOW TO THE REGION. FOR THE SUN-MON PERIOD THE GFS AND EURO SOLUTIONS GENERATE BETWEEN 0.25 TO 0.50 INCHES OF LIQUID QPF…WHICH IS PRETTY DECENT FOR A CLIPPER SYSTEM. THE CURRENT FCST TRACK GIVEN BY THE EURO AND GFS IS NOT ENTIRELY A GOOD ONE FOR SNOW ACROSS OUR REGION…ESPECIALLY FOR SOUTHERN KENTUCKY. HOWEVER AREAS NORTH OF THE WESTERN KENTUCKY AND BLUEGRASS PARKWAYS MAY BE IN THE SWEET SPOT AGAIN FOR SNOW ACCUMULATIONS
My kids are wondering if they will ever get to go back to school…I mean since they got out for CHRISTMAS break, they have had 4 days of school…its now almost Valentines day…seriously, where is spring??
Was just going to mention this. For them to discuss this already says something. Of course, they’re mentioning warm air advection for the southern part of the state. Considering this pattern, I think it’s unlikely for a clipper, but they’re skilled at this.
OH BROTHER!! here we go again with rain/snow lines…LOL..
Well I would almost just say go north…WHAT??? THAT COMIN OUTTA TIMMY BOYS MOUTH…LOL..I HAVE GOT TO GET A MODULAR HOME MOVED!! and this weather has the move ON COMPLETE STOP MODE!!…lol..I may get moved by spring…
From experience and common sense:
Teachers and anyone with kids – never schedule anything you can’t get out of easily until at least June 10.
Teachers – we should know better,
Parents – don’t pull kids out, that teaches the kids a terrible lesson that ______ is more important than education.
LOL! LOL! (Tired of laughing now after 36 hrs of it…)
If I were a gambling lady, I’d lose my butt on this forecast.
I live overlooking the BG in Bardstown, and trust me…it is NO “Sweet Spot”. You guys have your “Dome”, and I am a believer in such a thing, actually. The next time we have good snowfall coming in from any direction,look at the radar closely and watch this big gigantic HOLE begin to form right over Nelson Co. once it gets near the county line on either side.
The only ‘sweet spot’ to be had HERE is the one on my butt from sliding down in the ice, or most recently, the slush.
Comic gold 🙂
OKAY,OKAY!! People need to get the fact that some posters are literal and others tend to the abstract and both are fine and NO side is stupid or country or smart and better Some people grasp concepts with an image-a metaphor- like the Snow Dome and others get the meteorological concepts behind it. Accept the differences and be nice. Another thing: there is a spell checker at the bottom of the post and perhaps some folks could use it or we could just agree to ignore typing errors caused by haste and admit we are all human. And be nice!
where in manchester are u located???:)
I like your advice! I’m afraid Chris will take the blog away from us if all the nastiness continues. He said classes use this blog for their students to read. I’m sure he will do something, but I sure hope he doesn’t take away our blog.
as for sun-mon the 12z gfs and the 00z euro are the furthest north with the nam, cmc and jma going further south and west. the gfs ensembles means show all snow as well for the south. right now a 4-7 band somewhere across the state appears to be a good bet if the more northerly 12z gfs is correct this runs on either side of 1-64 with 2-4 inches to the north or south of this band. If the southern track is correct then areas south of 1-64 into northern tenn would get the 4-7.
The clipper looks potent and may deliver a widespread swath of snow, especially if the ratios are higher than currently thought.
I’m interested to see what happens after the clipper moves through. Does it deliver a super cold shot that supresses the storm track, or does the pattern retrograde some as Chris has mentioned?
Latest from Jackson:
“THE CLIPPER LOW ASSOCIATED WITH THE POTENT CLOSED UPPER TROUGH TAKING
AIM AT KENTUCKY WILL PUSH POPS INTO THE AREA BY SUNDAY MORNING AND
THEN RIDE EAST THROUGH THE STATE WITH A LIKELIHOOD OF SNOW. THIS WILL
LINGER INTO SUNDAY NIGHT AS THE CORE OF THE SFC SYSTEM PASSES. SOME
ACCUMULATING SNOWS LOOK LIKE A GOOD BET WITH THIS FEATURE…THOUGH
SLIGHTLY WARMER TEMPS WOULD YIELD LOWER SNOW RATIOS THAN WE ARE
CURRENT EXPERIENCING. IN ADDITION…THE MODELS SHOW A VIGOROUS
VORTICITY MAXIMUM CRASHING INTO THE AREA ACCOMPANYING THE SFC LOW AND
THAT SURELY WILL ADD OOMPH TO THE SNOWFALL FOR THE LATER PART OF THE
WEEKEND AND INTO THE FIRST PART OF MONDAY. THE DEEPENING SFC LOW WILL
THEN SLOWLY EXIT THE AREA AS WRAP AROUND MOISTURE SETTLES INTO THE
REGION UNDERNEATH THE EXPANDING UPPER TROUGH TO THE NORTHEAST. ALL
THIS WILL SERVE TO PROLONG THE THREAT OF ADDITIONAL SNOWFALL INTO
TUESDAY…WITH SNOW RATIOS ON THE RISE…AS WELL. THIS SITUATION WILL
BE HIGHLIGHTED IN THE HWO BUT NOT ELABORATED ON ELSEWHERE AS TO NOT
CONFUSE OR TAKE AWAY FROM THE ONGOING SNOW SITUATION. A LULL IN THE
WEATHER WILL BE DUE AND AS SUCH HAVE KEPT TUESDAY NIGHT AND MUCH OF
WEDNESDAY CLEAR OF SNOW…BUT DID CREEP A SLIGHT CHANCE INTO THE
MOUNTAIN AREAS LATE IN THE DAY WITH THE UPPER TROUGH CONTINUING TO
DOMINATE.
EVEN AS JACKSON MOVES INTO THIRD PLACE FOR SEASONAL SNOWFALL WITH
OVER 40 INCHES HAVING FALLEN THIS SEASON…THE SNOWY AND COLD
PATTERN APPEARS LOCKED IN PLACE AND TO CONTINUE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.”
Melissa, Thanks for your concern. We have four poodles and yes, they are the best. Believe me, if it had been me who needed to get to a doctor, or perhaps even my husband if he was just being whiney and not really sick, my car would have stayed in the garage today! The poodle had an appointment with a specialist who has no other openings until April so, of course, poodle made it to the clinic. She is running some tests to see what is going on with him. He’s having allergic reactions to just about everything. He has to eat a rabbit/potato diet for the next three months. No treats or any other food. He’s already mad about it.
How old is your baby? I just adore poodles but we have to spell words backwards if we don’t want ours to understand what we’re saying. No joke. 🙂
Believe it or not, Lexington has had 15.4 inches of snow season to date, which is above normal. (LOL)
O.K…maybe I wont get moved until early summer…either way, I guess I’m gonna enjoy the snow since its been a many a yr. since we’ve seen a winter pattern such as this one…
.2 more on a inch and it will surpass the total from 2002-2003 making this the snowiest winter…since, you guessed it, 1997-1998 (aka the birth of the dome)
Winter storm watches posted from east Texas all the way to the FLorida Panhandle in southern ALabama for accumulating snows….
http://www.weather.gov/
there is 13 inches of global warming in my front yard with 2 ft drifts on nku’s campus!!
Here in Harlan County it is still snowing, moderate snow falling now. It is such a light snow that the 35 mph wind gusts are drifting it horribly. some drifts reaching 8 inches. a general 3 to 4 inches elsewhere. Some areas reaching higher. Blizzard conditions recorded last night. wind gust of 38 mph, moderate snow, severe blowing snow, 23 degrees!
True, but I think they issue a watch down there for just an inch of snow. I could be wrong.
We have 5″ on the front porch and 6″ on the back and it is still snowing.
At least you admit your hypocracy….LOL…you sure know how to stick your foot in your own mouth…are you sure your not kin to BubbaG?!?!?! It’s so fun to argue with people like you that are like a dog that chases his own tail, never get anywhere but it’s fun to see you run around in circles…LOL
Ok, allison you have no idea what you are talking about. you need to get your facts straight before you start to run your mouth. Mike M is not an abuser. You are just clueless about everything that you are crying about on here… he was right when he said that your an idiot. there is no snow dome above us. im pretty sure that that is impossible. he also apologized for it when he said it, you have no right to flip out on him. You need to apologize or something. And do not ever accuse Mike M again. he is more of a man than you will ever be… sorry
at the begining of the storm it has lex getting 3 inches, the storm is just entering the region then, these clippers are fast movers though the super clipper of feb 2007 dumped 8 inches of snow on nky in about 10 hours, i drove up here and experienced it, but living here now makes it more fun!!! right now i think lexington looks good for some decent totals.
Check out the forecasted track of those low pressure systems…looks good for Central KY!http://www.crh.noaa.gov/wxstory.php?site=lsx
Can you understand the anguish of the people in the heart of the dome… we hear about areas in the eastern part of the state getting 40 inches of snow and we’ve only had 15? I’m glad you all are getting snow, just wish we had the same high totals all over the area, sigh.
could they have not used so many BIG words!!! can someone break this down in simple terms for us dumb folks. thanks
Only thing that is wicked is the wind snow best guess is 3 inches of snow maybe drifts up to 4 or 5
Another nice snow shower at the Mercer/Anderson County Line. Starting to cover back over the walkway I have shoveled three times. If that rain hadn’t mixed in yesterday, this would have been a good one!
Oh boy!! look everyone we are in 1st grade again!! When my teacher put me in timeout i would get up and leave….MIKE M DID NOTHING WRONG!! READ A BIBLE
Once again you have no idea what you are talkin about. Go back to first grade and learn how to write!!! good Lord!
ITS AS FUN AS RADING THE TEXT YOU TYPE, TRYING TO MAKE A FUNNY ANALOGY! SO FUNNY!!! YOU SURE ARE A QUICK ONE! I MAY STICK MY FOOT IN MY MOUTH, BUT IT SURE IS…AH NEVERMIND…I HAD A GOOD ONE FOR YA, BUT YOUR JUST NOT WORTH IT…
TAFKABubbaG is correct on this. The dome does not acknowledge cumulative totals, only BIG SNOW totals that occur in one, fell swoop. But this is the danger of the dome…it lulls you into thinking that cumulative totals do matter. I guess to somebody they do, but not to a true OLD SCHOOL snow lover. It (the dome) is ruining history (pretty soon people will say, KY never got big snows); it is changing our language (pretty soon people will say, “what do you mean by ‘Old School’ Snow”, and we will just look at them with a dumb, blank look of horror); it has even intimidated the forecast models (already, a perfectly good snowstorm plans to hit KY until it hits that mystical place…”Hello snowstorm, I’m the Snowdome”. POOF!! There it goes)
I could give more examples, but somebody might actually think I was serious. 🙂 On the other hand….keep your eye on the radar if you don’t believe in the Dome, and come hang out at my house next snowstorm!!
By the way…Chris does an AWESOME job forecasting around the dang thing!
thats about what i have had this yr 15 inches of snow even though i live in SE KY so maybe i am at the heart of the dome as well 😉
Heavy snow in northern Berea.. sitting around 27. Roadways are starting to get covered again on 25, much heavier snow falling in southern Berea, just came through that band! WOW!
The only band we have up here, Bern is Rockband and the guitar is broken:( 😉
Oops, on another computer, hope the Dome did not see me post under “BubbaG”…..
Hey, I guess domatologists would have as much credibility as climatologists these days- if not more;)
Washington is up to their necks in GLOBAL WARMING, LITERALLY!!! LOL!
There goes our Sunday Monday snow. 🙂
Regardless of everyones opinion of the accuracy, calls, and timeliness of the NWS, I have got to give them kudos for all the hard work and time they along with Chris THE LEGEND Bailey, and all the other meteorologists (including “the voice of Reason”) have put into this winter season. While this so far has not turned out to be an ideal winter for us ehre in Central KY, the winter weather across the country has been nothing short of stunning. Rain and mud in Cali, 5+ FEET of snow along the east coast, record cold, and much more have made for one of the worst winters I can remember, even if I personally haven’t experienced it for myself YET. Again, thanks to all you meteorologists out there, you all do one heck of a job!
Ok, now I am of the soapbox.
Now, for all you snowlovers out therse, lets hope this weekend brings a big ‘un!
I have noticed the lack of big snows as well, so I tried to figure out if it is perception or reality. The NWS in Louisville doesn’t list storm totals, but here are the top single-day totals in the past 30 years
11.0 2/4/1998
10.0 1/17/1994
6.5 3/13/1993
6.6 1/6/1996
4.9 4/5/1984
Interesting the heavy snows of the 90’s and nothing since 1998..
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/lmk/lexington_cli_pdf/top_ten_snowiest_days_of_each_month.pdf
No gaps this long in the record that I can find..
4.8 4/4/1987
Rolo can barely put two words together to form a sentence and he wants to be a moderator. Now that’s funny right there.
How many times do I have to say this. There is only 1 thing Chris can do to get rid of troublemakers and that is to ban by IP address. Guess what? For most home users, IP addresses change daily or weekly. So go ahead and ban an IP address,anyone that knows anything about computers can get a different IP address in about 2 minutes. So in reality, there is nothing that can be done!
You hillbillies crack me up!
6 1/4 inches of snow at the WOAY-TV station.
Still snowing.
8:00 p.m. 2/10/10.
Melissa, I was sent to moderation earlier when trying to respond.
My poodle has allergies and the dermatologist specialist was booked up until April so I didn’t want to miss our chance to see her today. He has to eat a rabbit and potato food for three months. No treats and no other food.
We have four poodles so they will probably all end up eating the food just to keep harmony in the house. These boys are so smart that we have to spell words backwards to keep them from understanding us! How about your “kid”?
I hear the national enquirer has purchased evidence from an anonymous source about the snow dome. Apparently the snow dome was placed over Kentucky by special interest groups. Cant wait to see the story.
More snow for Sun nite – Tuesday. Gonna warm a little bit so it might be wet snow & even mix with rain at the start. But Canada’s gonna crap more cold air on us & the snow will end up as more of the fluffy variety.
so is Sunday looking like a snow-rain-snow system for Lexington?
When do the new runs of the GFS and the NAM come out? Thanks.
http://wintercast.tripod.com/id14.html
That’s nothing, over here in NorthCentral ky we have had only 11.0 inches, most we’ve had for a LONG time!
I like this site!! thanks for posting it.
We need a update CB! Thanks for all the hard work
Still snowing in Pikeville.
Geez this place is slow tonight.
Geez this place is slow tonight
This next system is starting to look like it may be a copy of the last one…I hope not, otherwise it will be time to throw in the towel on another mediocre winter in CKY. So far just about everyone in the country that expects any snow in the winter has gotten theirs (i.e. a lot more than we have), and even some that don’t normally get it have or are about to!
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Very interesting Chris Mercer! I am surprised that there is nothing from 1977 or 1978 on that list, though. I did notice how 1910 was on there a few times…maybe that will be a good sign for 2010!
Here’s an interesting tidbit…
The Olympics start this weekend in Vancouver and they are having to TRUCK in SNOW because they don’t have enough.
Can you believe it??
Quick! Somebody figure out how to get 50 inches of snow from DC to Vancouver. We can make a fortune!!
If it makes you feel any better Toronto hasn’t seen very much snow this winter. At my house in Nicholasville I have has almost 17″ this winter. Now sure, I would much rather have 17″ of snow in one storm then just a little here and there.
Jake
WHERE ARE YOU CB??? I AM SUFFERING UPDATE WITHDRAWL!!!! I NEED YOUR INFENITE WISDOM, HILARIOUS PERSONALITY AND SOME HOPE OF SNOW FOR THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK!!…:)
Great discussion over at LMK about the clipper system for late this weekend. With ratios at 15:1 looking likely a general 3-6 inches looks to be a good first call for most of central kentucky.
Bob, I think I used to beat people like you up and dump people like Allison in high school. You all are funny. Now, both of you please be quiet and make me a pie…. 😉
15.7 is normal for lexington annually. lexington will be above normal soon for the entire winter like everyone else in a few days.
Don’t ban me Chris. Just give me a Dome Busting update for this weekend and the rest of February,
You probably have that backwards BubbaG since your not really sure anyways….you know beat people like allison up and dump the guy you couldn’t get along with anymore…LOL…you should make your own pie since thats more in your line of duty LOL….hahaha….HAMMER DUDE you must be burning up google trying to search for comebacks, and the analogy part…you make analogies come so easy with all your blunders…makes it so much easier on me…thanks pal
Thats interesting considering they had anywhere from 8-12 in december of 2004 at the nws in louisville, and at least once more since then have had 7-8 inch snows…
Some time before, I did need to buy a good car for my business but I didn’t have enough money and could not buy something. Thank God my colleague adviced to try to take the home loans from banks. So, I did that and was satisfied with my student loan.