Good Tuesday everyone and thanks for making The Center your choice for weather information. We have a heck of a nasty period of weather that begins today as a MAJOR storm cranks across the plains and heads toward the Lakes. This is a headline maker for a lot of areas of the country and may make some headlines around here.

Here is what to expect over the next few days…

– Heavy rains move in Today into Tonight. 1″-2″ will be possible in some spots.

– Temps will be chilly today with upper 30s but will rise into the 50s during the evening and last into Wednesday morning.

– Low pressure strengthens to our west and north creating possible damaging winds.

– HIGH WIND WATCH in effect for most of Kentucky for Wednesday. Gusts to 50+mph will be possible!!!

– Temps start in the 50s Wednesday then fall below freezing from west to east Wednesday evening.

– Backlash snow showers will move in for Wednesday night into Thursday with light accumulations possible.

– Windy and cold weather for Thursday with highs in the low and mid 20s and possible single digit wind chills!

One thing I am wondering is… can we get a touch of frozen precip at the very start of today’s rain? Hmm… You can keep track of it all right here..


Here is how the GFS looks with this storm…

This Evening


Wednesday Morning



Wednesday Evening

That is some wicked cold coming in behind the departing low. This could cause a few problems on the roads by Thursday morning and that is something we will watch for.

The rest of the forecast remains rather active…



Temps by Friday morning will really bottom out with 10-15 degree readings being common! Brrrrr. That brings us to the weekend snow and wintry mix threat which is gaining steam in my eyes. We will have low level arctic cold air in place as a storm system rolls almost due west to east to our south Saturday into Sunday. This is likely to have more moisture to work with and the models are likely to have problems with the arctic cold in place. They always try to move it out of the way too quickly and they usually fail!

This could lead to a decent snow and ice or mix threat for the weekend. Here is what the GFS is showing for snowfall Saturday…



That doesn’t include anything that comes Saturday night or Sunday. Again… it is showing this even as it tries to (likely in error) to scour out the arctic cold too quickly to give us a mix and snow. Watch the trends the next few days as I suspect the models grow colder and wetter for the weekend.

Here is another map that is cool to see… the amount of snow that will fall through Saturday across the country is insane…



Look at what a swath the plains will see from the blizzard that is raging out there the next few days. Wow!!! Folks.. this kind of snow pack can lead to a pattern locking in!!

By the way… keep an eye on early next week.

I will update things later so check back. Have a great day and take care!