Good Monday and happy leap year. Today’s bonus day of meteorological winter is featuring some decent weather across the commonwealth. That means little as we roll our way into the start of March, which comes roaring in like the proverbial lion.
A potent storm system is set to move in here late Tomorrow into Wednesday. This is likely to bring another wild weather ride to our region. Gusty thunderstorms sweep eastward Tuesday afternoon and evening and some of these may become severe. The Storm Prediction Center has the entire state in a slight risk…
Much colder air sweeps in with some wraparound snows and flurries late Tuesday night and Wednesday…
Similar to last week, any snows will be fighting a warm ground.
Check out the impressive temperature crash with this storm…
That’s another 30+ degree temperature drop in a matter of hours. The old roller coaster ride is strong! 😉
It stays cold into Thursday and Friday. That’s when another potent system takes a farther south track through our region. This can bring more rain and snows across Kentucky. The NAM gets out far enough to pick up on this moving in…
Seasonally chilly air hangs into the coming weekend, and then some spring changes really show up. The pattern next week may bring some true warm air our way. That’s the good part. The bad part is, it could also bring an early start to thunderstorm season.
This is a good setup for warm, windy and stormy weather…
I’ll update things later today. Make it a good one and take care.
Bring it….Super ready for the warmth!!
75-80 possible! 🙂
That makes me very happy!
Facebook Memories informed me today that four years ago I shared T.G.’s post about leaving WKYT and I said this as my post:
“The only way this news is even slightly acceptable is if Chris Bailey comes back. I take my weather very seriously and T.G. rules the roost in Lexington as far as I’m concerned!”
Thank goodness it happened!!!!
But….just realized that this means it’s coming up on the four year anniversary of the tornado outbreak.
I did relief work in northern Kentucky after their tornadoes. Seeing damage like that up close was humbling.
The northern KY tornado that crossed I-75 on March 2 2012 was indeed an EF4. In fact, that same supercell storm had previously spawned another EF4…. the infamous tornado that hit Henryville Indiana.
After the historic April 27 2011 outbreak, online satellite maps of Cleveland TN showed that an EF4 missed my parents by only about eight miles. Like Jeff, I also was humbled by the destruction. Although cleanup was already in progress by the time I briefly toured the scene, I was still overwhelmed by sights such as trees stripped of their bark.
At least tomorrow is looking more like isolated severe wx and not a widespread tornado outbreak.
Warm Air Borg say to Cold Air: Resistance is futile!
Ohm my gosh 😉