Good Wednesday, everyone. We have slightly milder air coming in here and that’s a sign of things to come. This mild up will also bring rain into town just as Old Saint Nick arrives in the bluegrass state this weekend. That means no White Christmas again this year. Sorry, Bing.
Before the weekend system rolls in, we have a weak cold front swinging across the region on Thursday. That can kick off some afternoon and evening flurries or even a light snow shower.
From there, we get a healthy slug of moisture streaming in here late Friday into Christmas Eve Saturday. The leading edge of this can start as a touch of sleet in the north…
Locally heavy rains are likely into the first half of Saturday…
A half to one inch of rain is possible for some areas before Santa hydroplanes into Kentucky.
Scattered showers will then continue into Christmas Day as southerly winds begin to crank. This will blow milder air into the region from the south. Your Christmas weekend temps…
The actual front doesn’t swing in here until Monday night and early Tuesday. A weakening band of showers will be along and ahead of it.
The pattern remains very active after this with another storm showing up by the middle of next week. The European Model has a colder look with a deepening trough following it up to close out 2016…
I will update things later today. Make it a good one and take care.
I hope Santa brings me an umbrella.
Another Christmas in the trenches.
Warm…Rain…Cold. Then repeat!
Rain will wash all the salt away (we have more salt accumulation than frozen stuff). Slugs rejoice!
a familiar trend
Looks like travel will be easier during Christmas, always thankful for that. Thanks Chris!
Bing only dreams of a white Christmas so no harm no foul
Freezing fog here in the Ville, Go Cards! Hope it is a great game and may the best team, “Cough CARDS Cough” win.
Awful!
Okie Dokie then. Rain. Just rain. Merry Christmas everyone.
Thanks Lucy! Sure, many would like a little snow cover on Christmas day. We also would prefer there be no tornadoes or ice storms. But Christmas itself is far more important than any weather on Dec 25.
At least unlike previous times, Lucy has not even really got her football out yet, yet alone Charlie Brown try to kick 😉
Christmas is far more important than weather. That’s why I said “Oh well, rain it is”. Even so, Merry Christmas. No matter the weather, we all can choose to be joyful and grateful–so yes, Merry Christmas.
It’s just a fairytale dream anyhow, so why get worked up over it?
I have had more rime ice accumulation than snowfall. I bet I scraped off enough of that stuff off my vehicle lately to make a decent snowball.
So when was the last “white” Christmas? The only one I have seen was when we visited KY, Christmas 2003, prior to our return in 2004. I think December snow is a very rare event – Jan and Feb are different stories.
2010 in SE KY…I had about 4 inches on the ground.
December is not necessarily a very snowy month in KY; however, the 2010 December broke the record for total monthly amounts in many spots with Jackson getting over 17 inches…record keeping only runs back a little over 30 years there, however. Another snowy December was 1995.
Yea, 2010 is the most recent I can think of, perhaps except the highest elevations in Kentucky and especially Tennessee. 2010 had a couple inches in Bowling Green and further south into Nashville, Huntsville, etc.
2010 even had Auburn Alabama experience just their second white Christmas ever.
I vaguely recall the brutal cold much more than the snow from Christmas 1989 even though I was just five years old. Despite being heavily dressed, my face felt like it was going to come off even though we were only briefly outside.
Yeah, I was had just turned 7 and barely remember much about it either. I can’t Rember if that was a strong clipper or a west to east storm, can you?
Don’t know, but I’d guess (only guess) it was a west to east storm that gave Kentucky and Tennessee their snowcover well before Christmas 1989……the record Arctic air coming in later. Seems a clipper would be harder pressed to do that particular snowfall so relatively early in the season. But it would be interesting to look it up.
Interestingly, it turns out very unusual places like Charleston SC, Savanah GA and even Jacksonville FL had rare or unprecedented white Christmases in 1989. IIRC, an air m-a-s-s direct from the north can leave the air over Florida with limited moisture for snow no matter how cold. Systems from the west can give Florida moisture but may be too warm. There needs to be the right combination of moisture from the west and northern cold for snow in Florida.
Go to
http://Www.crh.noaa.gov/images/lmk/SnowDrought2014_2015.pdf
Just shows you how little snow we average in Dec and Jan.
Louisville may make a run at 3rd December in a row for no measurable snow…
Lexington and Jackson are way ahead of us this time around…at 0.1″
The snow drought is now officially over…(sighs)…(shakes his head)…(takes target practice on old beer cans labeled GFS, Canadian GEM….)
1989 was a mega December for snow and way below 0 temps, after that not much winter weather followed.
Catch is it snowed off and on into January. We had several weeks with snow on the ground or falling.