Good Sunday to one and all. Our day is starting out with the coldest temps of the fall season as many areas dip deep into the 20s. This change to colder has been a process and the next process is to try and get some winter weather in here over the next few weeks. We have the chance for that to happen before we carve the turkey.
Outside of a small shower chance Monday through Wednesday, there isn’t a lot to talk about until the end of the week. That’s when a potent storm system rolls across the plains states and into the western Great Lakes. It will drag a strong cold front across Kentucky with a major temperature plunge from Friday into Saturday…
Temps may be near 70 by Friday and then drop into the 30s for highs at some point Saturday or Sunday. From the high mark to the low mark, temps will drop by more than 40 degrees during this time. That front will also have a line of showers and thunderstorms ahead of it with some very gusty winds as it blows through.
As that happens, a second low tries to develop just to our east or northeast. If that’s happens, strong northwesterly winds would be really crank around here…
This would give us the chance for, at least, the first flakes of the season late Saturday into Sunday…
If that second low doesn’t develop, then you’re chances for flakes are greatly diminished and you would just get a cold shot of air.
With the Great Lakes being VERY warm this year, we could be looking at a busier than normal snow shower and squall pattern this winter. Hint hint! 😉 Oh yeah, the winter forecast comes out Friday on WKYT.
The GFS then tries to bring another potential winter weather maker into town around Thanksgiving. Here’s the setup on the latest run from Wednesday through Black Friday…
I will have another update later today. Enjoy your Sunday and take care.
Leave it to Lexington’s Mesonet site to be 7-9 degrees warmer than everyone else for low temperatures this morning…hey, did their low temperature just match Louisville’s, the Heat Island capital of the Midwest and Southeast (probably the rest of the climatic regions as well)?
Over the years I’ve seen plenty of way off cold variance for the Madison County Mesonet site (remember the -188181818 degree night?). Currently at 7:05 PM, Fayette is 50.3 and Madison is 10 to 13 degrees colder than every other bordering station at 37 degrees.
Does anyone know what the calibration procedure is for these stations?
Super cool update, Chris. We are really looking forward to the Winter Forecast. Thanks.
I could interpret the warm lakes to mean back to the drive-by snow pattern of multiple few inch events 😉 Frankly, I would take that over the big snows needing to be shoveled. Three biggies in less than a year was too much 🙂
LES locked and loaded..Bring on the 70’s..
Remember that winter a few years back where we kept getting small snows and temps stayed cold enough and enough cloudy days that the ground stayed mostly white for like a month? This is what I would love to see again?
We will take whatever precipitation we can get in SE KY at this point. We are primed to burn down as the rest of the vegetation died out this morning from the freeze.