Good Tuesday to one and all. A glancing blow of snow and arctic cold temps are dominating the weather across Kentucky today. What else is new, right? The cold continues through the final days of the month as we focus on the potential for another snow system to impact the region. More on that in a bit.
The morning snow maker will impact far southeastern Kentucky and could deliver a few inches of snow. The rest of the state will flirt with record cold temps. Track away…
US 23 at 119
US 119: KY 1679 @ US 119 Pine Mt Road
The next system to watch is coming from the southwest and will be have a lot more moisture to work with. The NAM continues to bring this bad boy a little farther north with each run…
The Hi-Res run of the NAM is even more bullish on snow making it farther northward into Kentucky. Here’s the simulated radar from that model for Wednesday night and Thursday morning…
The famed northward trend is very evident on the NAM family, but does not show up on the GFS. Let’s see how all that shakes out with the models later today.
Regardless of that system… we get the arctic wave to bring some light snow into town later Thursday into Thursday evening…
Those kind of systems can be underplayed by the forecast models until they are right on top of you. With that much cold air involved… it won’t take much to create some snow around here.
I will have updates later today. Take care.
Being in the Pacific time zone this week changes my blog viewing. It is now part of my pre-bed routine rather than my wake-up routine… Spent the last two days in San Francisco where it has between 45 and 65 and sunny… Kind of weird for February (for me anyway…) Looking forward to getting back to winter!
Moderate snow here in east tn..1″ so far…
Moderate snow in Knoxville this morning. An inch or so of accumulation at present but still snowing. Schools were to be in session today on a one-hour delay but I would anticipate cancellation with the new snowfall. Breezy conditions with the chimes on my back porch playing a soft wake-up tune. Time for a pot of coffee.
Bad day for driving a Mini Cooper. Hope you get to stay off the roads! Thermometer here at 16 degrees. Coffee’s poured!
A balmy 1 here in Olive Hill…
We still have a solid as in frozen 5 inches of snow here.
After the warmer lows and the high temp was busted by 12 degrees yesterday, temps again coming in warmer than expected overnight. Interesting how the near zero or below air stayed in the upper northern counties. The snow pack decimation that occurred over the weekend overlays with these overnight temps very well. Ours around here is down to about 3″ or so now.
The ground is showing here in knott co in a lot of places.
17 here in Carrie. No snow up this far either.
I am enjoying my hand-warming mug of hot jo and feeling lucky I no longer have to drive anywhere in a.m. Brrr it is a very cold 5° here in Central Ky. Be safe everyone.
Snow flurries in London this morning. We still have a solid 5 inches of snow/ice pack. It would be ok to freshen it up a with a bit more powder. My parents in Charlotte, NC got a nice surprise snow this morning. This late winter pattern seems to be performing for many folks. Have a great day.
Have 8 inches in the ground still in southern Ohio
It will be so disappointing if those two systems totally miss us, one to the south and one to the north. Hoping the southern one keeps shifting north and they meet. I am still holding out for another BIG winter event. It is still FEBRUARY people! I’ll be ready for Spring when it is time for Spring! Until then let’s not rush the seasons!
Doing my northern shift dance now! Join in!
Funny how my perspective on snow has changed through the years. Wanted the stuff when the kids were younger and now a semi-empty nester the magic is just about gone. I see the stuff as mainly work now without my kids to have fun in it.
This snow is several years too late. Let me break out my smallest violin to play myself a pity song 😉
Very sad but also very true.
I can understand that. Mine are getting older and less excited about it, but they are prime shoveling age so it still works for us. Child labor! 🙂
In that case it is one year late 😉 My child labor force was cut in half.
If I did not make money when it snowed I would feel the same way. Not the same when you are not pulling the kids up the hill to go down again.
Sorry Ronald, but no.
I’m just saying it’s February 24th, it is still winter. There are 24 or so days until spring. Let it be spring when it’s time for spring. To each his own I suppose.
Meteorological Winter ends March 1st. Historically average high temps right now are 50 degrees in some parts of Kentucky. This is not your average late winter and it looks in no hurry to leave. Meteorological winter makes more sense to me anyway. Who considers it Spring in mid-June?
Tis true. I was just going by the good ‘ol calendar. I just enjoy the snow, what can I say! And I can’t help but giggle at the “global warming” types!
I feel the same way. Bring a big one. One that snows all day and into the night. I have young children and we love it.
12Z NAM continues NW trend with southern storm, southeastern Kentucky could see significant snow of trend continues
Well let’s see more nw trends then!
Anyway that could trend to north eastern ky?
SE KY has had a lot, bring it to Louisville and Southern IN.
7 inches is not alot
COME BACK TO HUNTINGTON!!! PLEASE 🙂
Got 3-5″ of snow here in east tn…this morning…
Glad you are getting your snow down that way!
Congrats to all southern states these past few days.
Almost three inches of new snow here in letcher county and still coming down. We have had snow cover for 10 days in a row now many with out water.
Showing the upper 40’s for Monday…does that mean this will finally be over? LOL
Warmer temps have been pushed back a week since early February. I’m not being greedy and just hoping for average highs, but it might be mid-March before we get there. You would think eventually that this would have to end and we go above normal for a stretch to kind of get closer to average.
Just heard on the weather channel that the low for the southern storm is trending more south. So guess the nw trend is no more?
TWC is not my go-to for weather. They are more like a reality show now than a weather station.
The Weather Channel is joke. It shouldn’t even exist. Seriously.
3″ of new Snow this morning in Middlesboro. 11″ total still on the ground here. 8 days straight of snow on the ground.