Good afternoon everyone gang. I hope this big time winter storm hasn’t been too bad on you. Thousands and thousands of Kentuckians are still without power and this will continue to be a problem in many areas as winds kick up following a heavy snow band that will continue to move out.
Here is the radar…
Heavy snow will continue across eastern Kentucky through the afternoon and this will put down a general 1″-4″. This will be falling on top of ice coated power lines and trees and will likely cause more of them to come down. The power outage problem is going to get worse before it gets better.
Track the temps here…
Here are some cams for you…
Lexington
Harrodsburg
Northern Ky
Ashland
Looking ahead… we have a system diving in from the northwest Thursday night and Friday. This will likely put down an inch or two of snow with a little more possible in the higher elevations. Temps will be in the 20s for highs and lows Saturday may hit the single digits.
Here is Friday morning…
The next storm may develop across the Gulf of Mexico late Sunday and roll up the eastern side of the Appalachian mountains throwing heavy snow back toward us. Check it out…
Monday Morning
Monday Evening
Monday Night
Check out the precip totals for this bad boy…
If this storm continues to show up on the models later tonight… I won’t hesitate to pull the trigger on a Winter Storm Threat as the pattern is ripe for something like this!!
I will update as needed… stay safe and take care.
Thanks Chris…Folks, PRAY for those affected by the storm.
Started snowing here around 11:10. It has pretty much stopped as of this typing. Was snowing heavy 99% of the time.
Was hoping to at least get 2 or 3 inches. But might still get that.
Roads are slushy. Back roads are covered in some spots.
Laurel County School dismissed at Noon.
Are you kidding? Another snow storm coming? If that verifies, it looks like another 6-8 inches…
Thanx Chris..!!
Yea, I mentioned that Mon system and got laughed at…lol Oh well, some people just don’t have anything better to do I guess…lol It’s all good… 🙂
Roads are awful in Masterson Station… Just got back from being out, and it’s nasty out there, however, the roads crews have done a very good job on main roads… GREAT JOB GUYS..!!!
Lot’s of lights are out so remember to be patient and treat those lights as a 4-way stop..!!!! (this is not a time for road rage) 😉
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Thanks Chris for all your work I love reading the Blog and the comments from all the weather nuts. The weather in north lex is as bad or even worse than it was in 03. We have no power and four trees are down in my yard its really bad out.
Chris glad to see you and your family made it through. Nothing to see here but water and mud with a few snowflakes not even enough to turn the grass white yet 🙁
Temp at 32* here in East Bernstadt with moderate snow falling. We’ve picked up nearly 3/4″ at this time. My road is completely covered. Not sure about main roads as I haven’t ventured out today…
Took my chihuahua, Gizmo, out in the snow (this is his 2nd snow), and HE LOVED IT! He has been whining to go back out ever since.
As Shanks noted, Laurel Co had an early release at noon.
Corbin independent schools dismissed at 12:30 p.m.
Vinny I believe you brother, but believe me, SOUTHEASTERN KENTUCKY will get nothing out of this. Never have, never will.
I’m just north of Hazard. It looks like a blizzard outside. Snowing very hard at my house.
this has been one smack in the face chris from winter. the good news is no ice monday based on that set-up the bad news is it may add further snow to power lines if we don’t hit 32 sunday.
Well, we were very lucky down here in my little part of Perry County..Had some ice yesterday morning but not enough to cause any damage and it melted rapidly in the afternoon..Plain rain all night and all day today up until a few minutes ago when it switched over to snow but its above freezing so i dont suspect it’ll lay on the roads.
Good luck to the power crews that will have it so rough for you guys up north..
I wish I was here
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We have around 10 inches here or more in northern kentucky. I couldn’t really get an exact measurement because there was a very thick and hard layer of ice in between snowfall. It’s kind of like we here in northern kentucky experienced a winter storm sandwich “snow-ice-snow”.
So exactly (or as close to exactly as possible) what are we expecting thursday/friday and Monday??
SE KY has seen big snows and will see them again.
NO…NO…NO…NO….NO MORE STORM MODES PLEASE… I CANT TAKE ANOTHER STRESS RELATED BREAK DOWN!!!!
J.KIDDING..LOL..
well dare i say we got a whole hours worth of snow, huh..heavy while it was falling, a small dusting and now its over…figures.
I sure hope the next one will be nice to south east ky..
2.5” of snow 4” of EVERYTHING my qfp official measurment is 2.1” WOW all snow and i am a happy dude! sunday evening does look promising but i will say the odds of something big happening so close toegether seems very low
finally snowin in harlan yay… not goin to amount to anything but its snowin the storm for monday i hope is going to be for the southern counties its our turn lol
Here in southern Nicholasville we have power. Would like to know how others in Nicholasville and Wilmore have done? Any reports of power out?
Les, man, you’re right. So much for the Snowstorm of ’09 on this go ’round. But don’t lose faith. “H” says it’s never gonna snow. I say, wait until Monday.
Pike Co. dismissing ASAP
Now power at the Kroger’s in Beumont… I wouldn’t get Sushi from there for a few days 😉
Down here on the border..we waited…it came…it went…now it’s gone…Tim…hope you did not blink your eyes…was pretty while it lasted,but went so fast that all we have is about 1/4 inch! But not complaining…at least we saw snow down here!!! Now we WAIT on the next one????
i agree but the last big snow we had was 1993 its well past time for a big one for us not ice or anything like that jus snow and lots of it its been 11 years its gonna be monday lol i hope
I will say it before Rolo gets to rain to start Monday and dusting to end for SE KY
Pouring the snow in Pikeville but the looks of the radar it won’t last long that figures!!!!!!
Well, that was a nice 30 minutes of snow. Overall snow total for Prestonsburg….Zilch. Overall ice total…1/2 inch. Overall rain total…37 inches LOL. Another forecast of snow, another bust. How many more of these are we going to see this winter?
We have around 10 inches here or more in northern kentucky. I couldn’t really get an exact measurement because there was a very thick and hard layer of ice in between snowfall. It’s kind of like we here in northern kentucky experienced a winter storm sandwich “snow-ice-snow”.
The GFS has been picking the monday storm up for a few days now. How about any of the other models?
anderson co. has no power in most parts so we escaped to lexington
You’re right. However, I’m losing faith that we will ever see a significant snow here in SE KY. Nobody wants to see a massive snow more than me. However, we’ve been setting ourselves up for disappointment for the several years. We get all excited about model runs that are five days out, by the time the storm is ready to hit, the low pressure is usually projected to go right over southern Ky, which pulls in plenty of warm air. All in all, it’s another frustrating winter, watching places like Maysville and the Cincinnati suburbs get pounded while we build the ark. Shoot, we can’t get any love from the Alberta clippers this year. If Monday turns into a bust, which is possible-if not probable, I’m going into Spring mode for February.
Here in Wilmore our power flickered out a couple of times (we’re in a newer area, so no big trees), but thankfully, we didn’t lose it. I haven’t been out yet, but will go out later to check things out. I could hear the branches snapping up the street where there are trees are older.
Got 4-5″ of everything out of this mixed bag. I hope next week’s storm comes to pass and this times smacks us with nothing but snow!
UKMET, GGEM, and Euro have it as well.
Don’t forget about ’98.
There’s been some decent snows in between too, they’ve just not been as wide in coverage and more isolated.
We have power in our area of Wilmore. Just walked around the block we saw trees down all over the place- and still falling!
i changed my name cuz somone else is using jason as well anywhoo i agree lol rain to a few snow showers in SEKY…i’ll have to see the snow before ill believe it anymore its been so long lol… snowed for maybe 20mins today and now its clear out lol what a surprise hu? lol
Precip just about winding down here in Letcher County…roads appear to be just wet.
Most of the precipitation has all moved out and we have seen no snow at all here in eastern Pike county.
Debra, at Pike Central it POURED for just long enough to make the decision to dismiss…now I’m home and radar is clear and there’s no snow….Just thankful for no ice!
LOT of FOLKS on board for the SUN.MON. storm looks like and DONT THROW EGGS AT ME FOR SAYING IT…(((( old school )))) I wrote it in lower case…LOL…..
Some thing else to look forward to (maybe) is that Feb. is Now trending ALOT MORE STORMIER and COLDER on the east coast…so maybe we wont have to endure a BORING MEDE-OKER Feb…
until then…dream snow,,,who knows I may actually get enough snow to cover the ground this winter after all…
yeah,yeah,yeah..im depressed because we MISSED out on this on..BUT at least there is another one on the table…
*Fayette schools close Thursday..!!!
just announced… (prolly be out Friday as well with all the power outages), but that’s just a guess on my part…
Just drove around New Circle, main roads are in excellent shape, (GREAT JOB BY THE ROAD CREWS)
Trees down all over town…
Lights out all over town…
Many folks without power…
If you get out, pleas be carful and watch for fallen tree limbs..!!
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Hey gang …on a serious not…..
Our buddy andy is having some SERIOUS medical issues, and the Drs. arent giving him any good news…SO LETS KEEP HIM IN OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS…OK…
A fellow weather blogger is a fellow family member…and he is my neighbor…:)
There’s gotta be 6-7 inches of ice and snow on the ground here in Morehead. What baffles me is why Morehead State chose to have class today after calling off yesterday. It is about 3x worse than yesterday. Poor call by the folks at MSU. I was going to go to class but by when I looked at my truck, I realized it would take about 30 minutes to actually get to where I could open the door.
Tim,
I’m hoping, but it won’t pan out for Monday, we’ll end up getting rain as usual.
For the person who said:
“lex should melt most of this mess by sundown” LMAO….
Really..?? How is that..?? We are at 24º and falling…
The salt on the road may melt some, but it will just refreeze tonight…
The sun will help with some radiation melting, but not THAT much with these temps…
Not well thought out statement there…
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shehttp://www... on a serious NOTE…not a serious not…sometimes my spelling..good grief…
Why?
are you speaking of andy rose? Certainly I’ll say a prayer. Keep us posted please.
come on Les.. we gotta stick together on this..lol…even thought the ODDS favor a CRASH AND BURN!!
I don’t post much but am an avid reader…what’s wrong with Andy?? That sounds really scarey!!!!!
Snow was absolutely POURING…white out conditions…just long enough to scare the powers that be into dismissing….then about the time we got the kids out the door it stopped….I guess better safe than sorry.
So, weather people – how did THIS ONE miss Pikeville? I watched the radar all morning and it was HUGE near Louisville/Lexington, but once it got here, it just disappeared. Our school let out at 1:30 and it was “sneeting” (almost snow, not quite sleet), but that lasted literally about 5 minutes and was all rain. Now I look at the radar and it is GONE – nothing left at all. This is what makes me HATE winter here. Oh well – I think I’ll move to Florida.
Do you go to Pikeville High? The city and county dismissed early but when we dismissed at Pike Central it was POURING. Of course it’s not now but oh well…..
Pikeville Elem – I’m a teacher.
Not as scary as it sounds but i would appreciate just your prayers and not to many questions my life is not in danger thats what matters
i stand corrected vinny, i thought the sun wouldd come out bigtime today…obviously just as my first to last call on this storm…i was wrong
You got it!!!
My prayers go out to Andy.
I teach at Pike Central….it seems we always get more on that hill than everyone else….I kept my radar up all day too and was disappointed at how suddenly the “blue” seemed to SHRINK!!!!
Don’t feel bad, I was calling for 6+ in lex, and well…. lets just say, we didn’t get close..!!! Although, My deck had just over 4″ of…hummmm “Frozen stuff”, lol… when it was all over..
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man those webcams, sure hold a wintery look…Such an UNBELIEVable difference from northern ky.. to down here in s.e. ky…
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….STORM RECAP FROM MY BACKYARD….
freezing rain started 3am on mond. morn.
turned to rain around 8am on mond. morn.
had just a small glaze,then it melted.
rained off and on through the day
moday night temp. went from 38* to 61* in 2 hrs. time…
Tue. morning temps. go from 50’s to 30’s by 11am. with rain to a BURST of snow that lasted about 1hr. that put down a dusting, then it melted..currently its 34* with flurries off and on…
Well, we survived. The bombs started going off at about 9:00 last night at Tates Creek and Lansdowne in Lex. We lost power at 11:30. More bombs through the night. Unbelievably, the power came back on at lunchtime. Lots of tree damage, and one hanging precariously over our power line. Driving downtown to my office, saw lots of damage. Streets still closed in several places due to downed lines.
If 2003 was a ten on the scale, this was an eight. I’m not ready to go back to “winter storm threat” mode yet.
Did Lexington ever go above 32 this entire event? I know when I went to bed last night it was still going up/down between 31/32
12z euro follows the 12z gfs taking a major winter storm up the apps putting us in the hvy snow sector.
you se folks i might have taken a dusting instead of 4.5 inches of snow with half my trees down. don’t feel to bad about missing out on this one.
season total 8.6 now up to 13.1 after this storm. 1/2 inch ice.
It was above 32 but never 33 at my place.
Just warm enough that the icing wasn’t as bad as it could have been. I imagine if it had stayed below 30 it would have topped 2003.
Hi, mate! I am utterly accede to that way of assumption and all of joined.