Good Thursday, everyone. Snow is working quickly across southeastern Kentucky to begin the day. This is part of the big southern snowstorm that’s just grazing the state with accumulating snows. Arctic air is pouring in behind this storm and will be with us to close out the month of February.
Snow showers and flurries will fly around the state today as the arctic air moves in. Temps will drop into the 20s, but gusty winds will make it feel much colder than that. Temps by Friday morning will range from the single digits in the north to the teens in the south.
Friday is a cold day with upper teens to low 20s for highs in parts of the region. That’s just absurd for this time of year.
Our weekend starts cold and ends ugly. Saturday should start with a few single digits with 20s during the afternoon as clouds increase. Those clouds are ahead of a very active and ugly setup from Sunday through the first week of March.
A wintry mix is possible on Sunday as the precipitation moves in…
From there, a couple of systems will impact our region through the middle of next week. These will roll right across the region and each could bring some interesting weather. A temp spike is possible ahead of each of them with heavy rain and thunder. Temps then drop behind each of them with some wintry mix. Regardless… the second half of the week features the return of very cold air…
Nothing says spring like below freezing temps all the way into the Gulf of Mexico! 😉
Let’s do some winter weather tracking to start the day…
Hamburg Area from WKYT Studio
Lexington
I-75 @ Winchester Road Lexington
I-64 MP 97
Winchester
Mountain Parkway near Slade
US 23 at 119
US 119: KY 1679 @ US 119 Pine Mt Road
I-75 at MP 36
London
I-75 at MP 23
Corbin
I-65 MP 36
Near Bowling Green
I-65 @ 234
Near Bowling Green
Updates will come later today. Take care.
I thought I heard a snippet on tv about the city of Lexington fining people 100 dollars per day who didn’t clear their sidewalks of snow? I can’t believe how LONG it’s taking for this snow to melt. I don’t ever remember wishing snow would melt so quickly.
Get this, I’m all electric, right? 3 bedroom 2 bath single story house. I keep my winter temp on 64 on the thermostat. My electric bill was 250 for 34 days. UGGHH
It’s a bit frustrating because a lot of people here haven’t shoveled their sidewalk still, and it takes forever to melt. It seems like if it would be enforced efficiently, then hundreds of people would be fined by now.
We have a similiar house and keep ours set to 65. Last month’s bill was $323. We’ll have to auction a kidney on the black market to afford next month’s bill!
$298 for a 4 bedroom 3 bath and thermostat set on 69°.
Thought ours was too high. Now, these posts are making me feel better.
Not sure how you all are comfortable with the thermostat set on 64° or below lol.
I dread ours. We have a big house and the wife likes to keep it on 72. All day and all night! I may have to get another job and farm out the kids to pay the bills!
It all really depends on your electricity company. We have Kentucky Utilities, all electric, 3,400 sqr ft, 69 in the day and 64 at night = winter bills of $120 – $200. The electric co-operatives all seem to be a lot higher. I am not sure why,co-ops are supposed to work for the members and be member owned rather than the evil, wicked, profit focused companies like KU.
That’s really high Mark. I love in a 65 year old 2 story house and keep my heat between 71 and 74 degrees and my bill was only $165
That’s not high at all, with the temps we’ve had. Even set at 64 when the temp gets in the teens and even below zero, that heat pump never shuts off, runs 24/7 That will drive your electric bill sky high. $250 is nothing for cold winter months
Ok, I find this odd but funny. CB was right when he boldly predicted the first double digit snowstorm since February 1998. On his post the day after, he said “I should probably just quit forecasting at this point and walk away on a high note. Don’t worry, I’m still here and will blow a forecast soon enough to make you forget all about that.” That Saturday in the same week, we got a whole lotta nothing when a lot of snow was forecast. He was right again! I don’t know what’s up with CB’s predictions but he is a good one! Can’t tell if it’s pure luck or forecasting skill? Haha
Ummm he missed last night. We never even got 1 centimeter let alone 2-4″.
I have no complaints about this “miss”. 🙂
he nailed it here in Leslie Co. 2-4 inches countywide…
Pouring the snow in Pikeville.
Maybe Lexington should clear the cities sidewalks along Man O’War and other places before they start fining it’s citizens.
Amen Jake. What a complete joke. The bus stops are horrible as well as the sidewalks on Nicholasville and Harridsburg Roads as well. The fine are a bunch of Bologna. The city blew this and continue to do so. Rediculous
8″ of heavy wet snow here in my back yard in Athens tn…..6-10″ reported all over the area
Awesome!
Got a dusting here in Carrie of knott co overnight
Looks like we are in for more typical Ky winter weather. Cold and dry, warm and rain, cold and dry, warm and rain. Glad we had a nice snow pack for a couple of weeks. Hopefully one of the lows can produce a sneaky snow for us before spring sets in. March seems to be the month for that.
Thanks CB for the update.
Exactly. The annoying pattern. It is winter. Let. It. Snow.
I 2 inches of dryish snow here. This will be the 1st one I may just get to look at instead of being out in.
22 days until spring!
1 to 2 inches here in rockcastle.
Meteorological spring is in 3 days
Around 3 new inches of snow in Middlesboro. This time the snow is beautiful…clinging to the trees unlike the last 2 powder snowfalls which were nothing more than deep and lasting nuisances.
2 inches
Is the snow coming at KY from the northwest virga? Or are we really about to see some showers??
Weakening front. Will dry up mostly before getting here. A few flurries and that about it.
Just seen the updated forecast for first of next week was forecasting highs around 40 yesterday now they are up into the low 50’s &!i live in Ohio so you folks in ky might flirt with 60 by Tuesday. The jet stream for next week is well to the north of our area looks like more rain then anything else
Nws in Jackson has measured 21.4 inches of snow thus month. Making it the snowiest February on record.
Jackson County was blessed. With the snow I got last night that puts my season total to around 10 inches of snow.
We’re back to the norm in Wayne County w/ an underachiever last night, only maybe a half inch instead of the widely predicted 1 to 2 inches. 🙁
I guess today’s artic front is another dry one.