Good Friday, everyone. We continue to see snow showers and flurries working across the Commonwealth today, and these will continue into Saturday. The Sunday system continues to look much more like a light snowfall maker with a couple of other systems of note for next week.
We had a little light freezing drizzle to go along with the snow showers overnight, so watch for a bit of a glaze early this morning. The snow showers and flurries come in waves and can put down light accumulations in many areas. I wouldn’t be surprised if a few spots overachieved and picked up an inch of snow.
Can we get a snow day or two this morning? With temps hovering around the freezing mark, watch for some slick spots to develop…
Similar conditions will be noted on Saturday with readings in the 30-35 degree range and more flakes flying. With such gusty winds, those wind chill readings will be much colder than what your thermometer shows.
A clipper system then dives in here Sunday and early Monday with widespread light snow breaking out. This type of a system is generally a 1″-3″ snow producer as it swings through here.
Here are the totals using two different algorithms from the GFS…
Not a whole lot of change across Kentucky, but check out the difference to our east in the WV mountains. Snow ratio differences show up there.
The next systems rolling in are similar, yet very different on the models. The similarities are that they all have them. The differences show up in strength and placement of them.
If you’re a snow lover, cheer on the Canadian. Here’s the first system on Tuesday…
Then from Tuesday night through Wednesday night…
As always, updates come your way later today. Make it a good one and take care.
Right on cue…Parts of Alaska now showing above average temperatures while we in Kentucky will be dealing with closer to winter conditions, below normal temperatures but not too bad in comparison with earlier this month.
“We had a little light freezing drizzle to go along with the snow showers overnight, so watch for a bit of a glaze early this morning.”
LOL yeah, nothing to worry about.
http://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Multiple-crashes-on-Interstate-75-in-Lexington-411949395.html
Anyone remember ice being in the forecast or posts from yesterday here or anywhere else? If some other met actually called out a chance for this please throw some links below. It seems like we have this problem every winter with some sort of “suprise ice”. At least it wasn’t as bad as it has been in the past and we didn’t wake up to SEKY being coated in the stuff.
NWS put out a weather advisory about slick spots, and I believe it was mentioned on one station yesterday, perhaps the local weather channel.
“LOL yeah, nothing to worry about.”
Why this? Is the implication that CB said not to worry about it?
Unless reading your post wrong, seems a tad back-handed.
Is this going to over achieve today? Not saying we are going to get hammered but the radar looks to be filling in and I’m getting reports out of georgetown that the ground and parking lots are covered and it’s still coming down.
Thanks Chris. As I write this, we are actually gertting some light snow in Somerset. The cars and rooftops have that confectioner sugar look to them. Flakes are small, but they are mighty! Has been pretty steady since I got up and got out. Wind is not too bad but when it blows, you can really tell the difference! Hope this cold weather will help kill out a lot of the bugs floating around. Everybody have a great Friday! Stay warm and informed! Watch KYT and the blog for more updates. (There Chris. You can thank me later!.) 😉
Our snow in Valley Station is that of little balls of Styrofoam, bouncing silently off of the vehicle.
The daylight hours should help minimize any widespread travel issues unless an overachieving snowshower causes a brief disruption. However, after dark, that’s when it may get a little more tricky.
Just stepped outside, it’s regular flakes of snow now. It really was like Styrofoam balls just a half hour ago. Really.
When we have events like this, and I look at the NWS Louisville radar – it’s like the snow stops at Fayette county (on the radar), then go over to the Lexington radar, it starts back in eastern Fayette. Is this because Lexington is kind of stuck in the middle of 2 radars? It doesn’t do this with rain, only light snow events. Often it can be snowing out but I will look at the radar and it looks like a big doughnut hole with nothing
It seems like Russell is always in a perfect little hole with no snow☹️ Still holding out hope for one good snow!
As usual the Huntington area not seeing anything but an occasional lonesome flurry. Northwest flow just doesn’t do anything in this area.
Lots of festive flakes falling.
Festiva!