Good Wednesday, folks. Arctic air is pouring into the bluegrass state today and this will bring dangerously cold wind chill readings our way. The leading edge of this air is likely to touch off a period of snow showers and squalls early this morning.
This isn’t a lot of snow by any means and anything that falls will likely blow around. The timing of these snow showers will be just in time for the morning commute for some areas. We may see just enough to cause some travel issues at times. The greatest concentration of these snow showers may wind up along and south of Interstate 64.
That will quickly move away, but a band of snow showers may then set up from Lake Michigan into parts of northeastern Kentucky late today…
I have no changes on the temps. Readings will drop through the teens and wind up in the single digits by the early evening. Lows tonight will then drop to -5 to 5 as gusty winds continue. Those winds will help push our wind chill numbers deep into the negative range. -10 to -20 numbers will likely show up at times from late afternoon into Thursday morning. For that reason, a Wind Chill Advisory has been issued for many areas…
Highs Thursday will only be in the mid and upper teens as clouds increase late in the day. Those clouds are ahead of another arctic front that slides in here by early Friday. That may bring another round of snow showers and flurries our way. Highs Friday will be in the upper teens to low 20s. Lows by Saturday morning will likely fall deep into the single digits. Some areas could even flirt with negative numbers, again. Wind chill readings late Friday into early Saturday will be below zero for many.
A mess of a storm system will likely follow all this up late this weekend into early next week. We have plenty of time to watch that. For now, let’s track the snow showers that kick off our arctic attack…
Hamburg Area from WKYT Studio
Lexington
I-75 at MP 36
London
I-75 at MP 23
Corbin
I-75 @ Winchester Road Lexington
US 127 @ Frankfort Frankfort
US 60 @ US 460
Frankfort
I-75 MP 127
Georgetown
I-64 MP 97
Winchester
I-71/I-75 at Buttermilk Pike Near Covington
I-71/I-75 at Mt. Zion Rd.
Near Covington
Downtown Louisville @ 2nd & Broadway Louisville
I-264 @ Freedom Way
Near Louisville International Airport
I-65 @ 234 Near Bowling Green
I-24 MP 4 @ US 60 Paducah
I will have updates later today. Make it a good one and take care.
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Mhmm… Can you please elaborate a little more, I’m quite intrigued.
Yeah, me too.
Someone had a little too much left-over holiday cheer.
I can’t believe you all don’t know what that means….ROLO I agree completely….
A mess of a storm!!!! I hope the cold coming Satuday does not moderate at all over the weekend. cold rain will really suck after these cold days without precip. We deserve to be treated fairly Mother Nature. Give us some snow please!
Thanks for the update Chris….
The lack of science in the “Winter Preparedness” in that NWS graphic explains a lot on their part. “40% heat loss”? Lol, try 7 to 10%.
Not saying you shouldn’t wear a hat, you should, but let’s not lazily perpetuate myths from an organization supposedly dedicated to science.
This is a good chance to get in a shot on them for something other than not issuing warnings when you think they should or that temp gauge fiasco. 😉
The national media and mets are accounting for the Polar Vortex. It sucks the heat out! 😉 🙂
They say it, therefore it is real! 😉 Yep, the heat loss without a hat is a “tad” overblown at 40%.
http://www.wintercampers.com/2011/02/19/the-truth-about-heat-loss-through-your-head/
Interesting. 🙂
http://tinyurl.com/meuomj3
🙂 😉 😀
Dusting on vehicles here in knott co. We now have a trace of snow for the year!
Nothing in Richmond but festive flakes, but (as usual) drive past Clays Ferry bridge and there is a genuiiine dusting.
Even the nothing events give less than nothing south of the river. Tito throw me a tissue! Sniff 🙁 🙂
Snow is coming down in Pikeville. Everything Is covered.
Rodger got a dusting in his backyard overnight. It’s gonna be mighty depressing if it warms up to 38 and rains Sunday and Monday – Mighty depressing! Rodger in Dodger
33/32 It’s the law!
With a southern system, the Sunday, Monday storm will be interesting. Louisville will be on the line of freezing rain or snow. I believe E-Town and Lexington will be on the freezing rain or rain line and Jackson will be all rain. Just my opinion, but southern systems do this to us. I hate having all this cold air and its waisted, we get cold air and no snow to show for it.
Festive flakes=turn the roads white with salt
Yeppers.
Cold and a little snow blowing around-some slick spots.
Hope that late weekend/Monday mess turns snowy!
Thanks Chris.
If we take the law of averages over the past 40 years we will be in for a heavy sleet to rain event for most of kentucky with Southern, IN and Northern, KY in the all snow. Hope it is colder than being forecast for Saturday morning. If we don’t get any wintery precip out of this cold shot it will be a waste. Like the Festive Flakes!
Guys our local weather man which is shane smith at wymt is forecasting that we will be about 29 tomorrow evening.that’s what I saw on wymt yesterday and that we will start warmingup starting Friday I think.
That’s not happening he’s wrong
Big snow burst here in Nicholasville.
I said it 3 days ago. 3 days of very cold Moderating weekend for rain to arrive Sunday. Southern systems have all been the same this year. It wouldn’t surprise me to see some temps in the 50 to 60 range during the rain event. By the way some national outlets have the January coming next week.
Whats the January thats coming next week?? Colder air??
Typo should have been thaw.
light snow in Pine Knot !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, what would be a perfect day for my outdoor thermometer transmitter to need batteries? Why, today of course! And now it’s not wanting to restart. I love technology.
Well hopefully is not in a high place
Not too bad. I was able to snatch it like a middle-aged, overweight Willie Cauley-Stein. But I still can’t get it working. I even read the directions!
ahhhh finally the upslope machine has finally kicked in ….atleast 5 inches so far this morning here in southern wv…still pouring…at times looking like a mini blizzard…I guess 12 degrees isn’t too cold to snow
They don’t call you upslope for nothing!
Wish we got upslope here in Richmond, we don’t get upslope, downslope, sideways slope, JUST not much at all.
Where in WV are you? I live in WV also but I am in the snow dead zone near Huntington.
Huntington is the Richmond of WV 😉