Good evening, gang. I wanted to drop by for a few thoughts on the winter weather rolling in Friday into early Saturday. Before I get to that, here’s the First Call For Snowfall…

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We’re likely to see a corridor of moderate snow setting up from southwest to northeast later Friday evening into the wee hours of Saturday morning. Uncertainty exists as to where this will be, but the blue zone I have on the map is where that looks to be at the moment.

The late afternoon model runs suggest I am on to something with this band and some even take it a step further. Most of them are a little more beefed up with this band…

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European Model

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European Enesmbles

Euro 2 I admit, the late day trends have me just a little concerned that I may be underplaying things.

All of this does start as rain from south to north on Friday, but temps will drop quickly as precipitation moves in. That means a change to wet snow during the evening and then we will have to watch and see where this band of moderate snow sets up.

Southeastern Ky folks… there appears to be a secondary burst of some snow aimed in your direction Saturday morning into the early afternoon. That’s a recent trend that is also looking better as we get closer.

While I have hit the models with their daily output, they did show this storm system from well over a week ago. They are doing the same thing late next week into the weekend…

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EuroIt’s just a week away… what could go wrong? 😉

Enjoy the rest of your evening and take care.