Good Sunday everyone. Our wicked kickoff to the new year rolls on across much of the country and that includes right here in good old Kentucky. Temps continue to run more than 12 degrees below normal through the first 9 days of January. Snow has been plentiful as we have had snow reported across the area on each of those days! Regardless of what some will say… this has been one heck of a cold and snowy period!
Today will be a day that starts out bitterly cold for many. Here is the deal… skies will clear out for parts of the area and this will lead to temps that bottom out in the low single digits. Some sub 0 readings can’t be ruled out. For those who have clouds and flurries… thermometers will stay around 10 or a bit above. It is really that simple. Track those temps here…
Low Temps
Currents
Temps today will recover into the low 20s for highs with some sunshine returning. Sunday night into Monday morning will see more single digit temps!
A fast moving system will dive in here late Monday into early Tuesday and bring a quick hitting light snowfall. This little system should have some gusty winds with it as well and can lay down another inch or two of snow. Tuesday will be another cold day with temps in the 20s.
We will FINALLY begin to come out of the ice box by the middle and end of next week. Temps will actually go above freezing for a change. It is also during this time that we watch a storm develop across the Gulf of Mexico. What happens with this storm is yet to be determined. Will it hang around down there for a few days as the steering winds leave it behind or will something try to dig in and pick it up? We shall see. The GFS says it hangs around a few days leaving only marginally cold air in place around here for a wintry mix of rain, freezing rain and a touch of snow by the end of the week and weekend…
The European Model is a bit more threatening as it is building in an arctic high across the Great Lakes that COULD funnel colder air in here as the low sets up across the south…
We know the weather has been cold and snowy around here. Did you know the same can be said for Florida? Numerous record lows have been broken in the sunshine state and they have had a few days of snow! As a matter of fact… it snowed in SOUTH FLORIDA for the first time since… January 1977. Hmmm… the winter of 1976/77 making some headlines again. Now, where have I heard that winter mentioned as an analog for the current one? 
Anyway… here are a couple of videos from the frozen tundra of Florida…
Hey… cut the kid doing the snow play by play a break. They aren’t used to the snow… err… sleet… err… snow or whatever it is down in Florida!
Have a great Sunday and take care.
Where I just moved back from FL I learned most people tend to have moved from the Northeast, but there children were young when they moved to FL or they had their kids down there and many don’t remember snow or have never seen it. So I bet they are loving it. My friends in FL who are from northern areas and hate the heat like I did are loving the temps down there. We cold weather lovers seemed to be rare down there, lol. I should have known to stay up here when I use to think KY’s summers are killers with heat and humidity… yeah
right.
Still snowing here in Nicholasville, I believe we have made it to 5″ and the way the showers have been I wonder if we are going to make it to 6″ before they stop. The current temp is 15f, but it has it that often and keeps jumping back to 18f. I guess that shows how cloud thickness protects us?
I would love to have a good 6″-12″ snow on the ground all winter with maybe even just snow showers like we have been having every couple of days.
Jake
I figured I would point out that the local airport in the Tri-Cites has broken the all-time record for most consecutive days below freezing (8). This beat out the January of 1977 and 1982 which had only 7 days below freezing.
Also to point out that this is only the second time in recorded history that SOUTH FLORIDA has had wintry precip and the other time was in 1977!
Regarding KY summers. I think it’s interesting that Lexington’s all time high temp 108 is actually HOTTER than most of Florida’s all times high temps…Ummm How????? (LOL)
I actually can answer how they don’t reach an hotter. I learned this when I moved there too because I was like you, how? The ocean moderates the temperatures and keeps most of Florida from getting above 100f. They do come close, but Key West and Miami both have apparently never hit 100f. From Key West northward in Florida the hottest temps recorded go up.
Yeah
I think the “humid continental” climates can actually be HOTTER than the deep south as strange as that sounds. Not prolonged heat “like Florida” but hotter nonetheless …..Example: Illinois state record high temp is 117, yet South Carolina’s is 111…..Kentucky’s is 114
How I got to talking about this is BEYOND me…..I’m full of random information 🙂
snow 8 days in a row may have gotten 2 and half inches total
I hope the warmup is only temporary as I would love to see more snow. This weekends system sounds like it won’t amount to much. Nothing scientific to that other than Chris thoughts and that he is not mentioning any big return of cold air. Cold air in Kentucky tends to show up after a few days of 33 degree rain.
well I ROLO say lets get warmer weather, but all warmer weather will do is cause mud slides,sink holes and flooding.
so hell with it, stay below freezing.lol
PUFF DADDY ILL BE MISSING YOU in honor of BIGGIE SMALLS was a great song.
once again folks this cold snap has actually set up a dangerous situation in the coming weeks, cause I predict a bad flood in the next month.
so when we all are on here WISHING AWAY for snow and cold, I dont wont to here one word when ur house is flooded or sunk in the ground.
on to the BENGALS, RUN THE BALL. in that 4th Q they never ran the ball, even with 4 minutes to go if they just ran the ball inside the 20 there they score.
but the fact is it a CULTURE just like UK football was, LOSING is hard to break lose from.
they need to trade OCHO STINKO and get a real WR that can stretch the field.
and now everybody jumping on the COWBOYS, ohh thewir d line to good, well when the other team does nothing but PASS,PASS,PASS it easy to bum rush the QB.
VIKINGS will run it down their throats and slow them D END down.
betting thew VIKINGS HEAVY NEXT WEEK.
its dropped 12 degrees in the last 3 hrs
Well…in Lexington?…..still snowing. Everytime I look out the windwo for the last 3 days it has been snowing. You’d think we’d have more accumulation. Ch. 36 was saying we’ve only had a little over 2 inches, but my house has had at least 4 on my front porch.
a light snow falling in corbin. snowed some more overnight, my road is again covered. hope we don’t have rain this weekend, but i’m thinking we might just.
Morning, all. Here at the Hargis ranch we have picked up about another half inch of snow overnight. I would guestimate our totals to somewhere between 2-3 inches overall. It is still trying to spit some flurries ere thismorning, too. Temp is 18. We seem to be stuck on that, as that is where it has been for about the past 24 hourd or so. dipped a little, but has been pretty steady. We had several hard snow showers yesterday where we would pick up a tenth or so and then it would stop. but it was beautiful!
Chris, where in Florida were these videos from? Wondering if there was a tag anywhere…got family down there. Need to call them today and see if they got any. (Space coast area)
Well, time to get ready to skate to church. Mains are not bad but boy, the side roads make up for it! 😉
I thought my 8AM temperature observation (northern Estill County) of 3.1 was erroneous until I looked at Ky Mesonet and saw it was even colder in Madison County. It dropped another degree here by 8:30. The temp must have plummeted early this morning. Snow cover is 2.7″
also got another inch of snow in knox as well no school for Knox County till about Wednesday if even then
yes it did here in knox county it was 17 this morning at 5 am and it dropped to 5 degrees within a few hrs
I am a foreigner looking in at your blog must say l like Mr.Bailey’s blog, live in Louisville we have a little over 4 inches depending on where your at I live in the suburbs. Still snowing in Louisville much to my surprise granted it’s a light snow but still snow nonetheless. As weird as this may sound we keeping getting these feeder bands from Lake Michigan they travel straight down I-65 and continually drop snow showers/flurries.
I’m with you Jake! I think there should be constant snow on the ground all winter – the kind you have to wear boots to walk around in, and a steady run a snow showers at least every-other-day to remind us that it is indeed winter!
Official snowfall in Lexington is 4.4 inches for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
DID you get any of those HEAVY snow bursts that moved through here yesterday after 5?? man those things dropped another 1-2″ here in town, and at my inlaws, they ended up with almost 5″ !!! in BIMBLE. when I left there at 9 last night…it was amazing…
Still snowing lightly in southern Madison co. I live 3 miles from exit 83. Beautiful snow!
After the heavy snow squalls that moved through here late yesterday, I see accumulations vary quit abit down here…in town yesterday got another 1-2″. on west side of the county around Bimble, there is almost 4-5″ on the ground…pretty impressive little band of snow to hit this area yesterday…
17*
partly cloudy skies
occasional flurry
Barbourville,knox co.
we got some heavy showers but not quite that much snow i would say after we got home which was about 3ish we prob got about a inch between then and 6 am this morning
Measured this morning in a spot that has not been disturbed. I had 4.5 inches at my place in south Lexington. Anyone notice how perfect the snowflakes are when they fall on you the look like they have been cut out in their own designs. They don’t melt right away and you can shake them off like dust.
Great choice for song of the day Rolo.16 here in Pikeville.
What site are you using to find snowfall totals? I need a site that will give me daily totals.
Rolo, if you want to become a rich man, bet on the Pack.
Yeah, I wouldn’t believe anything the weather people say on 36. Even if they were looking out the window I’d only give them a 50% chance of getting the current conditions correct.
Now if Chris would become their head Met. then that would all change. 🙂
I AGREE 110%…:)..THINK ABOUT THE RATING JUMP !!!02222
OOPS!!scratch the 02222..lol..that was the security code, punched it in in the wrong spot…lol
* GOOD GRIEF, GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!..I WAS WAITING FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS TO POP UP *….
Joe Bastardi is calling it out too!!
a snip from his blog this morning…
Robert Gibbs: Worldwide Record Cold Is The Result of “Climate Change”
This is precisely the reason I put that video on the free site showing how close this was to 77, and it comes precisely from the administration spokesman who’s chief science commissar, I mean czar, or is it officer was one of the lead ice age people in the 70s… John Holdren. I was just waiting for one of them to open their mouths so I could post this, but seriously, to all objective, rationale people in this debate, you knew it was a matter of time
Hi! I have a question. The snowflakes are sashaying through the air so slowly right now, how long does it take a snowflake to reach the ground after falling from it’s cloud? Just curious…
** IT SNOWED ALL THE WAY TO MIAMI !!! **
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION…UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 945 PM EST SAT JAN 9 2010
.UPDATE… THE LIGHT SHOWERS OVER THE SOUTHEAST AREAS OF THE CWA FROM ABOUT FLL SOUTHWEST TO MAINLAND MONROE COUNTY WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH SOUTHEAST THIS EVENING AND BE OVER THE ATLANTIC WATERS OF MIAMI- DADE COUNTY BY MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. SO WILL CONTINUE THE SLIGHT CHANCE OF LIGHT SHOWERS OVER METRO BROWARD…MIAMI-DADE…AND MAINLAND MONROE COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. BY THE WAY…COUPLE TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FEW SNOW FLURRIES IN THE WEST BOYTON BEACH… AND A FEW SMALL ICE PELLETS IN PALM BEACH THIS EVENING WITH THE RAIN SHOWERS. ANOTHER TRAINED STORM SPOTTER IN BROWARD COUNTY REPORTED A FEW FLURRIES IN OAKLAND PARK WITH THE LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS EARLY THIS EVENING…ALONG WITH A TRAINED SPOTTER IN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY REPORTING A FEW FLURRIES WITH SOME SLEET JUST SOUTHEAST OF TOWN AND COUNTY MALL.
Joe Bastardi’s idea on weekend storm, which looks rather SLOPPY for KY…
http://www.accuweather.com/video-on-demand.asp?video=44795589001&title=SPECIAL: Nasty Storm Brewing Texas to Mid-Atlantic Late Week.
6z has storm to south of us, 12z has began the northern trend, with rain to wet snow and slop…and after this looks like the rest of the month of Jan. COuld be BORING as far as snow and cold goes, looks to get back to normal and some above normal days maybe…I guess it will be a nice break before FEB. comes roaring in, which is suppose to be NASTY AS WELL…I dont know about you all but I need some sunny days and dry weather, my cars have enough salt on them to salt the Georgia Peanut farms…LOL….
has he been correct this year..???
i’m just saying…
just from looking at things i will say this, regionwide rainstorm next week with the gulf system, maybe even into great lakes…this low is going to buckle northwest big time.
Yeah, those stupid trained scientists and experts. What the hell do they know compared to our local soothsayers who have been exposed to 2 weeks of cold? By the way, little Dumbya had 34 “czars”. This administration has 28. Just so you know.
To MIKEM:
Thanks for the reply. I did, in fact, make sure the lines were clear. I took ALL of the solution out, but it still isn’t working at this hour. 🙁
About as correct as he is during hurricane season. 😉
21 degrees here now, with partly sunny skies. Have NO idea how in the world the snow can melt at that temp, but, it is. Then, whre the road is wet, we will have black ice….not a good thing when you are having to drive before it is good daylight. (Like, in the AM going to work.)
Chris, are we really expecting a little bit more tomorrow night into tuesday? I say bring it. We need a little more snowlive before we hit the mid January thaw that I see is coming….
good luck getting it into the lakes with a blocking high in place I don’t see that happening though it could be warm enough for a cold rain or warm in the upper levels for freezing rain.
true, that would be an exageratted scenario, i have seen my fair share of ice storms i’d much prefer cold rain to frz rain, frz rain is plain destructive.
Boyle County- 24* Sunny. Good snow melt today except of course in the shade.
Next weekend. Its rare but I agree right now with Bastardi for the most part. Its truly a fence game this go round and more likely ice than snow.
http://stormtracker.yolasite.com/michaels-kentucky-snowcast.php
we have about 6 in. of snow here still. pike co. schools closed tomorrow.
Are you kidding?? Joe Bastardi has been close to spot on since about well at least october(just like Chris).. he called the warm November, coolish december and the very cold jan. He might not be all about forcasting our local KY weather, but He has nailed the winter for the eastern half of the CONUS thus far..
pump may be bad which isn’t a bad thing to replace depending on the vehicle
Average temp. at my house in Lawrenceburg for the month is 18 degrees so far. That’s about 14 degrees below normal!!
Tennessee beats #1 Kansas! WOW!!
Is there going to be more snow in London tomorrow? What do u guys think?
Issued by The National Weather Service
Louisville, KY
3:52 pm EST, Sun., Jan. 10, 2010
… LIGHT SNOW EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE AREA MONDAY AFTERNOON AND MONDAY NIGHT…
THE LATEST FORECASTS INDICATE THAT AN UPPER LEVEL WAVE OF LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION EARLY MONDAY AFTERNOON. AS THIS SYSTEM APPROACHES LIGHT SNOW IS EXPECTED TO BREAK OUT ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA MONDAY MORNING AND THEN MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO KENTUCKY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS.
THE SYSTEM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE AN ACCUMULATION OF SNOW AS IT PASSES THROUGH. THE BEST CHANCES OF SNOWFALL ACCUMULATION WILL BE NORTHEAST OF A LINE FROM JASPER INDIANA TO NEAR COLUMBIA KENTUCKY. FOR AREAS NORTH AND EAST OF THAT LINE… SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF UP TO ONE INCH WILL BE POSSIBLE BY LATE MONDAY NIGHT. FOR AREAS SOUTH AND WEST OF THAT LINE… ONLY MINOR ACCUMULATIONS OF SNOW ARE EXPECTED.
THIS SYSTEM WILL BE MOVING THROUGH DURING THE AFTERNOON COMMUTE. THEREFORE… THE SNOW COMBINED WITH TEMPERATURES STILL BELOW FREEZING MAY RESULT IN SLICK SPOTS DEVELOPING ON ANY UNTREATED ROADWAYS. BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES WILL BE ESPECIALLY VULNERABLE TO SLICK SPOTS. MOTORISTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO USE CAUTION DURING THE AFTERNOON COMMUTE AND ALLOW PLENTY OF TIME TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION. HAZARDOUS ROAD CONDITIONS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS AS TEMPERATURES TURN COLD ONCE AGAIN WITH OVERNIGHT LOWS DROPPING INTO THE UPPER TEENS TO THE LOWER 20S.
PACKMAN if u need a loan ill help out, that was HEARTBREAK CITY after that great comeback.
Damm good game to bad we had to come out on the losing end. I have no fingernails left
I bet against Kansas so I came out even for the day.
It was a good game, just a bad ending 🙁
Good I am ready for a warm up…
10*
clear skies
Barbourville,knox co.
I just watch Joe Bastardi’s video over at Accuweather and if what he says turns out to be correct it MAY get pretty nasty around here next weekend. I just hope that it is rain or snow and NOTHING in between!!
Epic Failure!
15 Degrees in Pikeville.I just heard no school for Pike county tommorow if anyone that is out there that hasnt heard that?
Tim what about your way?
I’m happy for that kid in Florida — we know how it feels to get excited over snow! 🙂 Wonder if central KY will get any snow tomorrow night? I also wonder if anyone elses electric bill will be $400, as I’m certain mine will! Thankful to have heat though and be able to stay warm…..gotta count your blessings where you find them!! 🙂
The electric bill for the month of Dec here was 350.00 so I am afraid to even be in the room when my husband opens the next one lol .
Hey Chris,
To make this post “on topic,” I’ll just say this. This winter is rivaling 1976/1977, at least for the cold. What we haven’t had yet is the snowfall to match…but every year simply cannot be the same, I know.
However…we have had one rip-roaring start to 2010 with these cold temps so far…probably something not many of us will forget.
Cheers!
Take care of yourself, buddy. We will see you again soon. Thanks for the blog.
=Aaron=
no school down here either, down to 8* as well. I dont look for my kids to go back to school til thursday or friday at the earliest…these back roads down here will be snow/ice covered for days, due to the fact that its been SO COLD..
This week when everything thaws if the pump doesn’t pump then you probably need to replace it. Never had to do that myself but don’t think it would be too difficult. Good Luck
Double wow
Good Sunday everyone. Our wicked kickoff to the new year rolls on across much of the country and that includes right here in good old Kentucky. Temps continue to run more than 12 degrees below normal through the first 9 days of January. Snow has been plentiful as we have had snow reported across the area on each of those days! Regardless of what some will say… this has been one heck of a cold and snowy period!
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