Good Wednesday everyone. A taste of winter weather is moving across the bluegrass state today and it will be a reminder that the calendar actually does say February. This isn’t a big deal, but it does give cold and snow lovers a little something to smile about. Stress the little.
This will be a quick-moving system today and will bring some rain and snow mix to the south with a swath of light snow across the northern half of the state. The flakes will have to fight a mild ground and air temps hanging just above the freezing mark, so accumulation will be fairly light. Anything that does stick should be confined to elevated and grassy surfaces and me more slushy than anything.
The light snow will taper off to flurries from west to east this afternoon and evening from west to east. Temps will stay in the 30s for most areas, but a gusty wind will make it feel even colder. Be sure to hit the tracking tools at the top of the page. Radars, current conditions and live cams are there all the time.
A seasonal chill will be with us for Thursday and Friday. This is ahead of an arctic front that will dive in from the northwest Friday night. This should have a swath of light rain and snow just ahead of it with light snow and snow showers behind it. You can see the NAM is getting a bit aggressive with the moisture…
We’ll keep an eye on that to see if it can bring some accumulating snow our way. It has a decent chance, right now.
Temps behind the front will be cold. Highs on Saturday may stay in the 20s for many areas. GFS high temps…
Lows should dip well into the teens by Sunday Morning.
Be sure to post the weather conditions from where you live and I will drop by for an update later. Have a great Wednesday and take care.
Woke up to a beautiful white blanket outside 🙂
Hoping I will be able to actually see some fall today!
Nothing here in Paintsville. Radar is showing it but nothing falling 🙁
Beautiful snow in southern Fleming Co.
Snowing with about 1/2 inch accumulation. WEEE-WEEE-WEEE!!
in Mason CO.
Well, not enough for the kids to miss school and play in but my 4 month old boxer named Delilah sure thinks it’s fun
Better than nothing…
nothing, I mean nothing in London/Corbin … no rain, no snow, nothing …. A bird did poop on my windshield though — so at least something came down.
Must have been a CARDINAL Bird. Sorry had to go there!!!
Have a great day….
Nah, the cardinal would have missed the windshield 😉
Or a cat named Davis would have blocked it.
I really could care less how much snow we got today cause this is just beautiful. It stuck to everything, which makes for a breathtaking sight. I hope that when we have the big one, the snow is like this.
Just shy of an inch I think, here in North E-Town 🙂
I belive we have 1/4 inch on the our deck rails. I quess that would be a trace of snow. This is the third trace I have had this year. Yippee….
Still going to hold out hope for at least one 2-4 inch snow fall this season.
Have a great day and enjoy the little snow you might have received.
THINKS SNOW!!
went to bed with temp. at 30 with frost, and now temp rose thru the night to 38 with just a bit of rain/snow mix falling …cant win for loosing… 🙁
started snowing here around 6am. beautiful!!!! it is sticking to everything but the roads.
About a 1/2″ on my patio table, Marehaven… Lexington. It sure is a sight for sore eyes! I’m pumped!
Very light snow here in Waynesburg just a dusting but so pretty to see is that we have a yard full of robins. They are so mixed up.
A good 1″ of snow in Lawrenceburg, at least on the car and trash can….roads are just wet, but everything else is rather white…….
At least an inch here in Versailles as well. More than the voice of reason (BM) keeps yacking about on the radio. Glad to see it even if it is only a heel biter. Nice to see what snow looks like again. Mitchs comment gives me more hope.
1931-32 record for least snowiest winter at Lexington may fall at 18z we’ll see.
Explain?
Yea, I read that and I was like HUH? Least snowy record may fall? What does that mean?
Do you mean 2011-12 would not be the least snowiest, that 1931-32 would hold on to this record?
SInce defined 1931-32 as the record and it may fall, this would suggest 2011-12 will be even less (new record). Odd the 18z reference though….
I see. Indeed, looking at Mitch’s blog entry for this morning Feb 8,
“Lexington has had .7 inches of snow to bring the season total to 1.8, .3 off of the least snowiest winter 1931-32.”
So unless there was even more snow after the 1.8 figure was reached (snow now stopped, Lexington temp has warmed above freezing), this season still barely remains a record. Otherwise, this weekend just may have enough snow to help 1931-32 remain champion.
18z reference is when the NWS updates the official snow total. If we were not to get anymore snow this winter it would be the least snowiest Jun-Jul period on record.
Oh my gosh, yall are seriously acting like this will be the last snow of the season for us? lol…
folks better get ready cause OLD SCHOOL coming to even things out.
there going be a foot of snow or more storm sooner than later, I am seeing more and more signs of a BIG DADDY hitting and it be one those SMACKS as they will not see it till it right on top of us.
have greaty day all.
Rolo I sure hope you are correct. I would love to have an old school snowstorm. I say BRING IT Mother Nature! 🙂
Rolo, you make me feel so much better! We had a little snow about 9:00 this morning, didnt stick to anything!
Old school from this point on would be more likely a heavy snow (power out) event (if not ice, due to the fence), so prefer sticking to the current trend 🙂
I like the way you think, Rolo! I sure hope you are right! Holding onto hope…
Decent coating this morning, and the drive from Harrodsburg to Nicholasville was beautiful with it all stuck to the trees.
Perfect morning in my book. Not windy, not too cold, snow falling, horses, goats and dogs to accompany me on my walk. Enjoy the day, y’all. 🙂
Thankful for the light snow this morning..Not going to ask for more snow more snow, more, 12 inches would be great-that would be rude and greedy….
But…..
Mostly a rain event here in barbourville. Had some wet snowflakes mix in from time to time but its mostly rain with temps in upper 30’s
Although its still snowing fairly hard in Johnson County, its melting pretty quick…the silver lining in this situation is that its cooling the ground and primeing it for a decent snowfall with accumulation. Rolo, I’m thinking like you….I think we may see a decent one before this winter is in the history books but who knows….this winter has been unpredictable at best!
I hope that Rolo is right…
Or was that his goat doing the typing?? 🙂
Who knows? The goat does a good job if so…lol
http://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/NCOMAGWEB/appcontroller?prevPage=Model&MainPage=index&image=&page=Param&cycle=02%2F08%2F2012+12UTC&rname=UPPER+AIR+PARMS&pname=300_wnd_ht&pdesc=&model=GFS&area=NAMER&cat=MODEL+GUIDANCE&fcast=192&areaDesc=North+America+-+US+Canada+and+northern+Mexico&prevArea=NAMER&currKey=model&returnToModel=&imageSize=M
See how the jet just continues to flow from TX into the OH Valley? This is the broken record of the Winter… over and over, week after week we see the pattern remain stagnant. And this is the reason why I believe that March-May will be a horrible (or awesome depending on how you look at it) severe weather season. Combine that with how warm the gulf waters are.. and I’d say tornado alley is going to start lighting up like a Christmas tree pretty soon.
I agree, somewhat of a repeat of spring 2011 (very warm moist Gulf waters, possibility of similar La Niña pattern which can give a bit more favor to larger longer track twisters).
Kentucky and much of Tennessee largely escaped the stronger twisters of last spring’s epic outbreaks (south central and east TN of course a big exception), but that luck will run out sooner or later.
I’m gonna tell you, I really do believe this year is going to be last year plus Kentucky and Tennessee and Ohio and Indiana. Very, very bad spring is coming. The perfect conditions appear likely.
Next big event to come through next Tues/Wed is all rain event with over 2 inches for some. Will get cold after that and we will be in wait and see mode. No snowpack north of us to sustain the cold air that is coming down over the weekend. Seasonal trend of Warm w/Rain – COLD – Warm w/Rain – Cold – Warm w/Rain – Cold will continue.
Still holding out hope that one of these larger systems moves up west side of the Apps, while the cold air is in place, and gives us an old school thumping.
THINKING SNOW and leaning towards Summer and 90’s….
As predicted, only a few sprinkles (rain) as I headed to work this morning in south central KY, to the dismay of snow lovers.
Here’s the way things were back in the good ole days……….well actually, this was virtually a year ago today (in Arkansas), snow, snow and snow:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lzk/?n=win0211c.htm
good wed. afternoon from the town of wayne, wva. woke up this morning at about 4:30am and looked out the window and i saw something white on the ground. i thought for a minute, i said to my self, “that can’t be dandruff, i buy the best shampoo that money can buy.” lol! i kept thinking, i said to my self 1 more time, “it can’t be a fall out from a nuclear war,” i am still able to type the comment and read chris’s weather blog. i kept thinking, and then it came to my mind, i said to my self again, oh! that is snow! something i have not seen a lot of this winter.
any way, i woke up to a good coating of snow on the grass and cars this morning and what we should start to notice with this pattern is that each cold snap will get stronger and each snow period will get a little bigger as we head through feb. and into march and possibly april.
on a personal note to a person by the name of jonb. i am very sorry i caused any hard feelings with you on the blog with you yesterday as that was not my intent at all. it just seems that every one has been so negative as of late with the non snowy winter and chris does his best to give all of us a little ray of hope every day and when i read your negativity yesterday i guess you were the 1 to recieve my criticism. i have noticed you have not left a comment today but if you are reading at all and you do read this i want you to know i am truly very sorry from the deepest part of my heart and soul. all i can do is apologize and watch what i say and type from now on and realize that i may actually hurt others by what i say. sorry, thanks for reading and may god bless each and every one of you.
Still wanting more snow! 🙂
I must admit I am getting excited about planting season coming soon though…. 😉
East Boyle County: A good snow cover this morning just like CB’s forecast. All gone now…..Friday is looking interesting.
Frankfort doubled it’s snow total today, 2 inches so far this winter 🙂
That is almost ankle biter level.