Good Friday everyone and welcome to the frozen tundra that is Kentucky! A widespread 1″-4″ snowfall hit the state on Thursday and now comes the coldest air of the season that will carry us into the weekend. Before we talk about all the cold… we still have some more snow to go through as northwesterly winds bring in more snow showers and squalls to us today into early Saturday.
These can drop an additional 1″-3″ in a few areas. Because of the very cold air… the snows will be very fluffy and it the atmosphere will be primed to snow at the blink of an eye. You can track the snows here…
Roads will continue to be slick and hazardous through the day into Saturday. The bitterly cold temps will make it hard for road crews to get a lot of the streets clear.
Speaking of the cold… it is here. Temps this morning will be in the single digits to start the day and will only rise into the teens for highs. The gusty winds will keep the feel like temperature at or below 0 for most of the area. Follow the arctic blast right here…
Current Temps
Wind Chills
If we can clear the skies out Saturday morning or Sunday Morning… temps will really tank with the fresh snowpack in place. Lows down into the single digits will be common with a shot at 0. Again… we must clear the skies out!
Beyond the weekend…
There is likely to be a light snow making system diving in Monday evening into Tuesday. This has the potential to lay down a little more snow before all is said and done.
Temps will slowly climb next week and we will finally go above freezing this year… but not by much. Temps will run in the 30s for highs with a shot at … gasp… 40! You know it’s a brutal winter when 40 degrees is warm. 
The pattern is only taking a break as the southern branch of the jet stream cranks up. This will likely crank up the storm train once again and we will have to watch for this by the end of next week and beyond. The cold and snow aren’t done by a long shot as this winter is turning out to be everything we thought it would be.
Keep helping us out by posting the weather where you live. I will have more updates later today so check back. Have a great day and take care.
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we have about an inch or so down town harlan but the roads are a mess none the less several inches more on pine mountian and black mountian duh! isnt it always lol… keep the winter madness comin 🙂
you all really should come over to spotter chat great people there and ALL things weather. It gets VERY VERY active during Severe weather and it gets active during snow
http://www.spotterchat.org
Boyle County- 3 inches of snow on ground before it started blowing around. 8*……..I was in Mercer earlier with identical conditions. Roads in fair shape. Thanks to road crews!
Still never made it to an inch of snow yet at my house
Although it has obviously been colder this Winter, I really cant say that I have seen much difference between previous years, still not appreciable snow North of Nashville!
I have received more snow in Knox County already this yr then had had gotten the last couple of yrs combined so from where i am i have to disagree.
That is great, but, again, speaking from the reference of Northern TN, this is not much different from Winters past aside from the cold
well the tools more or less are saying no shot at below 0 with their morning low forecast of 10 and 8 i guess we shall see how it plays out
The Winter holds more promise this year than in years past, and there is a lot of Winter left; does anyone have anythoughts on the Winter thus far and any possible connection to low sunspot actvity?
Don’t know about that, but I have heard reports about the winter being bad in both Europe & China, so apparently the entire northern hemisphere is in a deep freeze (relative to normal.)
I have been reading alot lately of the global warming causing global cooling by shutting down the Gulf Stream; there are those that state that the Gulf Stream shutting down, the low sunspots, are what caused the Little Ice Age in the period of Dickens when London was regularly in the deep freeze and the young United States had extremely rough Winters
That global warming is a bear – it causes cold weather, it causes hot weather, it causes more hurricanes, it causes less hurricanes, it causes more tornadoes, it causes less tornadoes. Can I blame global warming for my weight gain over the holidays? :).
Global warming is probably not a good subject to get started on the blog as most peoople here don’t believe it….and for obvious reasons…lol….the people that believe it will make every excuse to try to explain the cold away but it just like the bible say as long as there is time the seasons will be in place and its just weather cycles…most of our warmest temps on record was in the 1930’s back before global warming…lol…..anyways love the snow bring on some more !!!
How is I-75 south of lexington?
When I FINALLY got home last night – we measured 4″ in my back yard!!! Northeastern Franklin County. I couldn’t find my driveway to drive up! Fun!
One again, the approaching blizzard becomes a storm to a winter weather advisory…Kentuckians are funny when it comes to winter weather; folks in New York and Pennsylvania laugh at us….4″ of snow to them means they have to wipe their feet before coming in the house.
Oh, by the way, let’s talk about something important today like HAPPY 75TH BIRTHDAY ELVIS!
I can hear him singing, “Walking in a Winter Wonderland”.
the KING, man he was something.
I mean how bout in the OVAL OFFICE and ask NIXON for a FBI badge.lol can u say HIGHHHHHH in the WHITE HOUSE.
with that said, he was the man and his music is timeless.
grew up on elvis records and GEORGE JONES and well I still love them.
got bout 1.5 inches at rolo plantation at 10 degrees.
Guessing 3″ here in Northern Madison that ranges from zero in places and up to eight inch drifts.
this was never advertised as any type of blizzard or some crippling snow. Did we get as much snow as advertised? Well that depends on where you live but it was never advertised as some huge winter storm.
there are more important things besides celebrating a dead person’s Birthday like checking on Neighbors and the elderly to make sure they stay warm.
Our relatives in the London England area have had TWO one foot snows this winter. Both record snows. I lived there for four years and we had three snows the entire time I lived there and the biggest was 5″. London does not get much snow.
Global warming is as dishonest an assertion as saying global cooling is causing this. Humans are pretty arrogant thinking they impact global systems when even volcanoes only have temporary effects. They can spew out more carbon than a century of industrial output. Mt St Helens is an example.
Great idea, that was a great song he did!
We got about an inch and a half at my house, in spots…(drifting)
Although it is not showing on radar, we are getting a pretty good light snow shower right now. Temp is 10, and wind chill was -2 last time I looked at it. Thank goodness for long johns, or I would freeze to death going in and out today!
Main roads are pretty good, side roads are a disaster this morning. Be careful out there, and stay warm!
I know we haven’t received the big one, but no room to complain in Central KY. After yesterday’s snow, Lexington is 1.9 inches above normal in snowfall for the season.
andy you need to move!!, there is over 2″ on my porch here in downtown Barbourville, well there was before I swept it off so mamma could walk next door to work…lol..
TALK ABOUT A HORRIBLE TIME TO BE IN FLORIDA !!!…(SNOW in FLORIDA TONIGHT)
Daytona Beach, tonight and tom…SNOW, a dusting is possible…CRAZY!!!
ORlando FL..saturday, chance snow,sleet,rain,flurries, high near 44!!!
Miami…saturday, rain and 54*!! saturday night showers and 38*
Key West Fl…saturday, 55*!! and 46*!! on sunday morning…brrrr
Light snow in Corbin at the moment. Looks pretty falling.
NASTY TRAVEL CONDITIONS !!!…If you have to travel where the roads are not treated, I would’nt advise it… Yesterday here in knox co. the temp. rose to 30* with light snow falling off and on, last night when the heavier snow set in, the roads were wet in alot of spots,and the snow got heavier, the temps. crashed to the teens. and the untreated roads became skating rinks…my father in law wrecked his 4×4 truck last night trying to get up a huge hill to his house…on the same road that i ended up putting my wife’s new van in the ditch…WHAT A MESS it was a pure ice skating rink…even roads here in downtown have been salted to death, but its SO COLD they are still snow and ice covered…
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for us down here in the hills..(lol)..that means if things dont warm up before MOnday, that means NO SCHOOL AGAIN!!…I’M about to open a new school…SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS!!!!…LOL…
i didn’t think roads were that bad when i got out here i took the wife because of the unknown factor glad your family and father inlaw is safe still sitting a little less than an inch of snow here 🙁
My son is in Orlando right now. He flew down to run in a half marathon at Disney. It’s going to be a cold, wet run I’m afraid.
Our roads out by the Grove Marina are horrible! Been watching out the window and several people were unable to make it up a hill to get to the main road. I’m staying in, glad I was one of those people to pack into Krogers the night before!
BTW Tim…..I’m right there with you on opening a new school! Kids are bouncing off my walls over here!
Good morning everyone! It is snowing and FREEZING here in Williamsburg! I live off of hwy 26 and the roads are horrible. On our little back road it is a solid sheet of ice. I am definitely glad I don’t have to get out in it, but my poor hubby did. Hopefully they will release them early!
And Tina and Tim, I agree, my little girl has DEFINITE cabin fever. Oh my, she is just wild!!!
I’m like Andy Rose, I’ve already had more snow here than the last two winters put together.
LOL…
Tell him to take pics if it snows on disney…lol..boy isnt that a twisted statement….
the GFS is being very consistant with the storm on the 16-18th..for days now it has shown a storm, and a large one at that…it keeps differing on the track, but most of the runs of this storm keep showing a formable snowstorm for ky….so…shall I say it? …(( HERE WE GO AGAIN ))…LOL..
well i’m glad she dun have to walk far in the cold did either one of the vehicles have damage yesterday ?
Around an inch…maybe a smidgen more in Wayne County. The cold may be lasting a lil bit longer here than in previous winters…but still no snow.
I can only count 2 maybe 3 times since the 98′ event that the grass at my house has completely vanished. While I enjoy what little snow we’ve gotten so far this winter…I can’t help but be starving for more. There’s still time this season to get some, but I gotta say i’m disappointed with the winter so far.
I hate to even look at any model anymore because it will change 8 times in 8 days. Very frustrating. Plus if it warms into the low 40’s or high thirties this thursday we’ll be back in the mode of 33 degree rain followed by dry artic air. Sounds like a Bubbacast. Somebody shoot me.
Last night T.G. mentioned that two years ago on this date, it was 70 degrees in Lexington. I remember that very well. At some point on that day a huge storm hit my part of Bourbon County and we lost a big part of our roof. We had just had it repaired that very day due to another huge wind blast just a few nights earlier. There were two bad storms just days apart the first week of January. All things considered, I’ll take this deep freeze over damaging winds. Y’all stay warm.
Well, if there are more important things to do than celebrate the KING’S birthday, then why are you on the computer complaining about getting only an inch Andy? Why are you on the computer now? Why aren’t you checking on those folks. Huh?
how do you know that i wasn’t out this morning at 5 and 6 am doing so ??
and i’m not complaining about getting only an inch of snow If you would get your head out of your own rear to read what Chris said which was Keep helping us out by posting the weather where you live. But your to busy trying to get attention by trying to stir things up i’m sorry you were neglected growing up.
I lived in FL for 37 yrs. Only once did it snow and that was early ’90s. I was living in Gainesville and we got a dusting.
Cold and breezy here in Mt Sterling.
track on the models is prefect for a snowstorm here though the thermal profiles are questionable. this could be a 4+ snowfall if things go our way.
do you see the temps getting to 20 like the NWS is forecasting ?
the sun did peek out for a few min but i don’t think it helped things much if any
Where are all the snow showers? Radar is clear and its full sunshine here. Not complaining, the sun looks GOOD out there!
I sure will!
Snowed 4 inches here on the ridges of Menifee County. It is drifting a lot across the roads. Main roads are passable but the winds are keeping the road crews busy. Go off the main road and you had better have 4 wheel drive.
Who said Elvis is dead?
I’ve been watching that storm for days too. That one, if it happens, will come out of the Gulf which means it would have the potential to REALLY lay a smack down on Kentucky. But…that’s 8-10 days out which is stretching pretty far. If GFS still has it 6-7 days out, then we’ll talk.
Where is here ?
the sun has been out a couple times here in southern ky. as well , but most of the time weve had snowshowers off and on, some moderate ones as well…
Not trying to start anything but you were on here posting between 5 and 6 this morning.
Hubba, Hubba, Andy …
And, how do I know you weren’t out at 5 .m. and 6 a.m.? Well, I’m not sure, but you have posts on here at 5:15 a.m., 5:53 a.m., and 6:18 a.m. You must be like Superman — faster than a speeding bullet. 😛
My pastor is down there running too
AndyRose give it up these people come on here to stir up trouble belive me i know don’t pay any attention to them and hopefully they will go away…..
SNOW TRAIN HEADED SOUTH !!…lol…snow is redeveloping along the ohio river the last couple radar loops shows a huge area forming around Cincy headed due south, even on the satellite map, where clear skies were being shown in north east ky. cloud cover is filling back in…so MY OPINION is late afternoon could produce some pretty healthy snow squalls for alot of people……:)
No fair! I live in GA, an hour south of Savannah, hour and 1/2 north of Jacksonville, and I’m not getting one flake. Just cold down here today highs only supposed to be 40 degrees. 🙁 I just want a dusting of snow so I can laugh at all the folks down here freak out. P.s. Yeah, I’m Andy’s sister and I’m acquainted with KY snows. I hear in 1989 down in this area they had a white Christmas. I remember in winter of 1995 it snowed, just like someone had dumped powdered sugar on the ground and they closed schools, the military base, etc. I thought it was rather funny because by 10am it was all melted off. But no snow since then that I’ve heard tell of or seen with my own two eyes.
Maybe one day!
12z run of GFS says rain to HEAVY THUMPING SNOW for 17-19th storm, marginal cold air so it would be the dreaded HEAVY WET SNOW!!!
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/namer/gfs/12/images/gfs_pcp_204m.gif
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/namer/gfs/12/images/gfs_pcp_216m.gif
Heavy wet snow is not good news at all…but its that freezing rain I’m hoping stays far away from here…
I lived in Richmond Hill, just south of Savannah, for the 89 storm. It rocked! More snow than we had here in Lexington yesterday.
heres a little side note to think about as well with this particular storm, the gfs has had it for days now, and a big storm will usually form on the front of a big warm up spell…and the gfs has been insisting for days now that a big warm is on tap towards the end of the month…Know I dont know if this will all play out like that but..it does,and has happened before, I remember back in the 80’s we had a HUGE FEB. storm that dropped 16″ of snow and 2 days later the temps. SOARED INTO THE UPPER 70’s…that was a crazy mess to say the least, I remember my brother and I building a HUGE WET SLUSHY snowman in shortsleeve shirts…it was the craziest thing ever…NOW I dont think we go SOARING THROUGH THE 70’s but right now 40* is warm compared to being in the teens and 20’s since Jan 1….
more and more radar returns showing up now in central ky…:)
Its been snowing here all day anyways, but it would be nice to see it get even heavier…
Boyle County- light snow and flurries
What do you think about the 17-19th storm? Snow? Ice? Rain?
All 3 😉
Will it be a monster like everyone’s saying?
Sounds good!
How does it snow and have the sun shine at the same time? That’s what it’s been doing here on and off.
I’m not sure it shows a thumping snow- but I leave room for the possibility I’m wrong. LOL Maybe Mitch or WxMan can chime in, but the links you show are of total precipitation during a 12 hour period.
If you look at the series of maps, it looks to me that most of the precipitation falls before temps drop. There is still plenty of time for things to change, but if these maps verify, I think you’re looking at heavy cold rains with a turnover to snow in the morning.
conditions in Richmond: snowing
snow amounts: about 4 inches
temperature: flippin COLD 😛
Read from Bill Meck’s blog that it’s called ‘Diamond Dust’. He said, “These are ice crystals that drift around under an otherwise sunny sky… It’s caused when the ice crystals form directly from what little water vapor is in this dry air. They aren’t falling…they’re forming in front of your face. It’s a truly beautiful phenomena common in the tundra…not so much in Kentucky” http://community.lex18.com/weather/
Tim take it back HEAVY WET SNOW,ICE we don’t want that’s mean NO ELECTRIC we can’t take that I need electric………
Agree about the cold. However, I’m in the city limits and I’d say closer to 1-2 inches.
Snow still falling here in Ravenna, wind blowing from the north, and boy is it cold. It’s 14 on my front porch, but it’s in a protected area. I know that it is MUCH colder out away from the house.
Agree, Im off of 25, and Id say 2″
Here is what I was referring to when I said series of maps:
http://wwwagwx.ca.uky.edu/gfs_12z_slp_all.htm
I wouldn’t complain though if it DID get into the 70’s…Bet there was some decent flooding back then from the fast melting that had to take place…
hmm CB is better than any met alive at reading a pattern way before it happens but if the gfs maps here verified we’d be looking at quite a mundane bit of winter, the storm late next week looks to take a track favorable for all of ky but who knows?!
Hey- take a look at my post below on this same system. Can you tell me the difference between the maps Tim post and the ones I posted?
One looks like we are below freezing, the other doesn’t. Are these at different elevations? If so, does that point to an ice issue????
yep the track is good, Im just not sure about temp profiles. I dont understand the difference between the maps Tim posted and the ones I posted.
Here is a interesting site.http://www.vuetoo.com/vue1/SituationPageNews.asp?sit=27
I love snow but I am sooooo over this bitter cold.
It’s 18 degrees here with light snow falling…feels like about 9 degrees here in East Point.
Yeah I just think it stinks if Orlando is getting such a fair chance of snow…for them that is… *sigh*
Sounds like Rolo published that study.
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