Good afternoon, folks. I promised to take a break from a busy day and chime in with another update. So, here’s your late afternoon update. 🙂

A touch of sleet has been reported in northern Kentucky, but the milder air continues to take care of that. Rain will increase across the entire region this evening and carry us into early Monday…

Temps behind that will chill down quickly on Monday with the potential for a few snowflakes dancing about the sky from late in the day into Monday night.

From there, it’s all about the arctic front charging in here on Wednesday. This can produce a quick hitting band of light snow and flurries. You can see that zipping through here…

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The air behind that is frigid. Check out the forecast lows for Thursday and Friday…

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Highs on Thursday may not get out of the upper teens across the northern half of the state. Gusty winds during this time will make it feel much, much colder.

The late week/weekend system continues to show up a little differently as we inch closer. The models are now showing two separate systems impacting the region. one with a mix to rain initially, then another developing along the arctic front moving back in. That one has much more winter with it.

Here’s the GFS Parallel…

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The Canadian Model is now similar…

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The European Model is also seeing that second, slow-moving system…

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As you can see, that’s another big blast of arctic air following up that system.

That air mass lifts out a few days later, but leaves behind a lot of low level cold air as another system shows up on the European Model…

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This is a pattern where the upper levels don’t tell the full temperature story. The low levels are just so darn cold because of all the arctic air.

I’ll see you guys later tonight. Enjoy the evening and take care.