Good evening, gang. Your friendly weatherdude threw a little going away luncheon for my WKYT weather buddy Mike Linden. Mike is heading to Scranton, Pennsylvania to be a chief. My little weather kids grow up and leave me for bigger and better things. 🙂 Hit him up on Twitter and wish him well.
In taking care of all that, I am just now getting time to look over things and update. As hard as it is to believe, I do other things from time to time. 😉 I will say this, maybe I should update less often. Nearly 10,000 blog hits an hour from people looking for an update is impressive. 🙂
We are now to the time of day we get the increase in snow showers and squalls that we have been talking about. The piece of energy responsible for this is just now diving into central and eastern Kentucky, and is causing a big ramp up in the activity. For those reading, but not paying attention, this was always the period we highlighted for the accumulations. That said, a few areas picked up 1″-2″ of overachieving snows today, while many, as expected, saw their flakes melting.
As temps drop through the 20s, road conditions will become slick and some roads will become snow covered in a heavier snow squall. I really don’t have any changes on my snowfall thoughts with the best accumulations in the east and southeast. Northeastern Kentucky may actually come in above my thoughts, while there will be several other areas that come in with the under. That’s the nature of forecasting these light events. Keep in mind, I have been driving home the fact that it’s snowfall not snow depth.
I do expect many cancellations and delays by Monday morning, especially across the eastern half of the state. So do those snow dances or that may not include your school district.
I will update the winter pattern for the week ahead with my next update later tonight. Until then, track the action across the state…
Hamburg Area from WKYT Studio
Lexington
I-75 @ Winchester Road
Lexington
I-75 @ Iron Works Pike
Lexington
I-75 @ Clays Ferry Bridge South
Between Lexington and Richmond
US 60 @ US 127 Frankfort
US 60 @ US 460
Frankfort
I-64 MP 97
Winchester
Mountain Parkway near Slade
I-275 at Mineola Pike
Near Covington
I-275 approaching KY 20/Airport
Near Covington
Downtown Louisville @ 2nd & Broadway
Louisville
I-64 @ I-264
Louisville
I-264 @ Freedom Way
Near Louisville International Airport
I-75 at MP 36
London
Natcher Parkway MP 5
Near Bowling Green
Enjoy the evening and take care.
Thanks CB! Perhaps we will but an 1″ tonight in Richmond for actual accumulation. That and an inch and a half of salt 😉
Greenup has close to 1.5 inches already and still snowing hard
Hello everyone. My husband took another measurement at 5:30 p.m. and got 3 and 1 quarter inches. We live in NW Lewis Co. And it is still snowing. Very beautiful out there. Stay safe Y’all.
Not even a dusting in Richmond and the mets appear to be backing off of totals and REALLY stressing the snow is overall and not total on the ground. Seems anything above 1″ on the ground could be lofty for most.
For snow, this is truly becoming the Seinfeld Winter. A lot about nothing 😉
Actually, Bubba, my yard is dusted. #Richmond
Thanks! Here in Hartford (Western part of the state :/) We have seen light flurries but no accumulation. Pretty much expected. Still sad though
Snowing hard in Flatwoods/Greenup. Still no advisory from Charleston, and I have at least an inch of snow on my road.
Think we got an overachiever here in ne ky…..almost 2 inches and still snowing hard
From looks of radar and ground temps this is going to be a dud, even by crop dusting standards
It is what it is. A Seinfeld episode 😉 🙂
For central ky anyway
Sounds like you just want another reason to complain.
Think I’m going to have to move to North Dakota just to get a glimpse of snow. KY used to get inundated by snow in the winters. Now, we are lucky to even see 1 inch.
Louisville only averages about 12-14 inches a winter season. I would hardly call that inundated.
I have seen a lot of posts lately about people from NKY being unhappy about missing the snow but, even without an advisory, this area has faired the best with both the colder temps and more concentrated precip.
In Mason County that might be true. But I’m in Kenton County and even being a little colder hasn’t helped us. We didn’t have the big snows central and eastern Kentucky got last winter (I think the biggest “storm” we had dropped about four inches on us last year) and I don’t even have what you’d call a dusting in my yard right now. It’s been a bad run for us up here in the top three counties.
Ah, the typical “if it didn’t happen in my area, then it didn’t for anyone else” post. LOL
Just had a heavy snow shower in frankfort roads are now white
Nothing here in east/se ky. Decent amount of precip earlier but it was all mix or rain. Now that it’s cold enough haven’t seen any moisture in bout 3hrs
Just a dusting so far in SW Jefferson County, fairly uneventful
Typical Valley Station lol
Anyone else thinking of jumping on “put a fork in it” train? Bring on spring ladies and gentlemen
Nothing on the ground as of now in my neck of the woods of knott county.
I’ve had less snow in this winter weather advisory than I did on Friday morning—when no one but Chris mentioned the possibility of snow. I commute from Lexington to Nicholasville every day, and Nicholasville Road was covered in snow about 8:30 Friday morning. Wonder why there is an advisory now and there wasn’t one then?
Not sure, but we have Dipping Dots falling in north Richmond. Will be surprised if we see 1″ total out of this.
Placing bets the system end of week will be a letdown as well. Would be surprised if we see a genuine threat mode for snow this winter. That would be a first for CB’s many blog years. Sure, CB (the other mets too) has called threat modes a few times and the systems glanced us or missed a lot of us, but there was a threat mode.
We might have a new low bar for snow.
Dippin Dots, good call for what’s been falling in Woodford County this evening as well
Snow shield albeit light seems to expanding somewhat back into IL. Maybe we will get another inch.
Some sleet has been falling in Nashville TN this evening. Thought it was graupel at first until I saw the pellets bouncing like ping pong balls. The ground is too warm for anything to really stick so thankfully the roads are mainly just wet so far, but the sleet is kind of a nice break from the dreary rain sprinkles that have occurred much of the day save for some snow around late morning.
Probably a little more than 2 inches at my home just east of Huntington and we weren’t even in the advisory area. But it appears to be over except for flurries now. At least that’s what the radar looks like.
I dont think 2 inches is enough for an advisory ….lol
Actually…yes it is
Probably not in your area. But in Huntington it warrants wall to wall severe weather coverage.
A VERY big Snow Train is choo-chooing its way over the Lakes and Mountains of West Virginia right now. Thankful I don’t have to drive to work tomorrow!
Looking at various model’s the upper air conditions during the upcoming weekend doesn’t support a deep low but rather a more flat wave moving into central kentucky bringing mostly rain. A small chance that it may develop into a moderate storm.
Just my opinion and observation
Trust me…were used to it LOL
After raining most the day with a total of about 30 minutes worth of snow/mix and moisture now exiting east, the dusting we just received is the latest in a long list of disappointments. Oh well, no surprise at this point.
This one looks to be an underachiever for the area that was supposed to be hit. Looks like NKY areas are only going to be the real winners if you consider a couple of inches a win.
Warm air shaunt’ be denied!
Fake Weather. LOL
I am cool with every bodies forecast predictions, as long as it is factual.
Three words for the snow squalls: Location, location, location 🙂
North Richmond appears to not be any of those three words yet, but not expecting it anyway. We have Dippin Dots, and flurries to light snow. Will be surprised if we breach an inch. Let the salt flow! 🙂
Well where I live now in South East TN I don’t get in on these clipper/upslope events anymore…But today I actually got in on some action and tonight I have a white ground from some heavy squalls that moved thru..So I’m happy!
We just got a light dusting here in Huntington, it’s slippery out there though…still lightly flurrying but I think we missed out on the 2-4 inches 🙁
Maybe next time!
Looks like we got a little more than 2 inches here in Ashland.