Good Monday everyone. We are coming off a very wild weekend for parts of the bluegrass state. Much of southern and southeastern Kentucky was hammered by a winter storm. The active pattern that brought that storm system looks to continue as we roll through the next week or two.
The Sunday snowstorm brought widespread 4″-8″ amounts across the south and southeast. This heavy, wet snow knocked out power to tens of thousands of residents and also knocked down trees and closed some roads. The highest snow report I could find was 11″ near Black Mountain.
That system is behind us and it’s on to a brighter and milder Monday. Highs today will reach the mid and upper 40s for many areas with some low 50s in the west.
A weak cold front drops into the area for Tuesday and will cause scattered showers to increase. This front won’t have much cold air behind it and, if anything, Wednesday looks much milder. Readings for Wednesday and Thursday should spike well into the 50s.
That surge of mild air is ahead of a big dip in the jet stream that heads our way by Friday. This should be a very strong cold front swinging through here and looks like it will being a nice temp drop on Friday. Rain ahead of the front should switch to some snow behind it. Here’s the GFS…
These fronts can often develop a wave of low pressure along them and that is something to us to keep an eye on. The GFS is hinting at this and the Canadian is actually showing this wave…
We shall see how it plays out, but that is a nice shot of cold moving in for the final weekend of February. Time is flying by and we will be into severe weather season before you know it.
Have a great Monday and take care.
Here we go again, Will this be the big one. At this point I will take a couple of inches from a clipper system.
Well I am guessing it will be another teaser. If we arent going to get it I hope they never say we are. I love snow but this winter has been a bust. I am ready for warm weather. Bring on a good severe thunderstorm!!
I don’t even like word “snow” anymore. lol
I think we will get some GFS mixing with Euro to start, ending as period of NAM flurries. I can’t rule out a clap of ECMWF at some point.
*IF* the next storm is in this region, odds are that Lexington will be on the fringe of it: N,S,E or W.
Sigh
Am I crying?
yup 😉
Ditto for Louisville…
But at least we were never forecast to get anymore than an inch out of this last one.
Finally got to try my new generator out..YIPPEEEEE…Power went out about 7 last night and still off…Beautifull 6 inch snow just as white as white can be..What a way to make up for a snowless winter..
Here at Grayson Lake it is dry as a bone! Having a hard time keeping everyone on your side Chris! It’s a big area right!
not one snowflake fell over my house! : (
Severe weather? Not my favorite thing, but long sunny days, swimming pools, playing outside, warm breezes, cool drinks………….yep…………I can get VERY excited about summer if I think about it for too long 😉
Final tally is 6″ at my house!!
uggggggggggggg, trying get my eyes open….
i think it was MARTIGRA in SE KY yesaterday… getting to old for this.lol
give u little over 6 inches here, if it had been colder we gt at least 3-4 more inches.
lost power for just couple hours JACKSON ENERGY u rock. there my plug of the day.
Although it was not an OLD SCHOOL snow I am glad you received more than an ankle biter. First of March is the next one to watch. After that Spring will be back in full force.
Gonna continue to read the blog, just because but I am NOT going to get excited over anymore “thoughts” of snow because that is all it has been this year is just a thought. I am so over it all!!!!
About 5-6″ here at my house in London. I measured just under 5″ while sledding with the kids in the back yard. We had a period of light to moderate snow last evening. Most of our tracks were nearly covered over. Despite this Winter being a bust for the state, it was nice to salvage at least one +5 snowfall.
Congrats to you! If I could get one 5″ snowfall, I’d be happy after this horrendous winter.
We ended up with around 4 in Johnson County but if the temperatures would’ve been colder we could’ve easily doubled that number.
I am actually glad the map was “very close”, since we got nothing and the positives are abound for about the 40% of map that did get nothing.
1. No heavy snow to remove from a large uphill driveway (much rougher than the normal fluffy stuff- it IS heavy, you know)
2. No power out. Our power has gone out 100% of the time for events that cause it. No doubt we would be without power now.
3. Warming up today, so all that pretty white stuff will be funky, nasty grimy slushy stuff, instead of the “graceful” melt of fluffy snows.
I am glad the mets maps were short… very close, up until the event and the southerly storms were not accounted for in the models (went against the pretty NAM).
Also glad I stuck with the trend, since expected what happened to happen (no football for me). This was always an east south east event (naught NAM), so just saying that missing a heavy snow is not all bad…… Can I have a tissue please?
BTW, the only good NAM is the movie Apocalypse Now.
i am glad you guys got some snow.
moving on. lets not saw that awful “s” word until December. k?
now, what are you guys putting in your gardens this year? i am so ready for some fresh veggies!
Miss Kate….We now need to focus on the other “s” words….
Severe Storms and Summer…LOL….
Which I love as much as the white stuff…..Did not say it!
those S words are fine. i LIKE summer!
i am tired of the four letter one.
Lol. Hope everyone in the south enjoys The mud! There is an upside to no snow :p
Yup. Told my husband that if we couldn’t get 6″ of snow I didn’t want anything at all because the mud has been so bad. A good snow would have made the mud worth it. As it is, we got nothing at my place and I’m fine with that.
Wow, do i detect some people having “DESIROUS BECAUSE SNOWLESS”..
May the Dome live on..lol
This weekend storm might the last snow chance this winter, NOAA says March will be a very warm month for eastern half of USA. SPRING!!
I’m done with winter. Bring on spring time and severe thunderstorms.
Cool you have learned so much about the 93 blizzard. YouTube has old live coverage of 93 from Birmingham by rather well know tv met James Spann (a rather young look Spann at that). It’s eerie, power at the studio flickers several times, and you can hear from inside several claps of thunder as thundersnow and blizzard conditions rage on.
There’s also YouTube of Spann covering April 27 2011 twisters at Tuscaloosa and Culman AL. Despite the heartbreak, Spann and his colleagues no doubt saved many lives that day.
I’ve taken time to learn about April 3 1974 Super Outbreak even though that was about a decade before I was born.
Thanks man! and yeah, last year the weathermen in ‘bama did save a lot of lives, but also remember, a derecheo went though there that morning, so that really had a huge effect on the number of lives that could be saved. ’74 was absolutely insane, and was textbook, and still is. But the new textbook is April 27th 2011. Look for more of those in the upcoming future…
Yea, the earlier April 27 storms may indeed left so many without power, those without battery wx alert systems were vulnerable. Think my parents in Chattanooga/Cleveland TN area still had power early, but cell and land phone service was unreliable, perhaps because of jammed circuits or damaged infrastructure. Anyway, they finally were able to get word out they were ok, but the Ringgold GA/Apison TN tornado (almost an EF5) missed them by only 10 miles or so. I later paid a visit, I’ll never forget all the destruction.
With the conditions this season, a repeat of March 27 1890 – which unfortunately included the devastating Louisville tornado – is not out of the question.
Total amount Laurel County (London) is around 4.75 inches. An absolute beauty to wake up to! Last night’s band of snow was really a nice touch with big beautiful flakes.
Having been very fortunate in several tornado outbreaks, I’m just glad that when severe weather season hits, my area of KY usually doesn’t get the worst of it.
Bring on the 70’s and sunshine!
Seems I-75 in your area is in effect an eastern limit for twisters. Throw in a few exceptions like a 1995 tornado in Perry/Knott Counties, and the 1988 downtown Middlesboro twister.
London KY really dodged a bullet on April 3 1974, but North Corbin and counties just to your west were not so fortunate. With the exception of Brandenburg KY, those counties were hardest hit in the state that day.
I remember the ’74 super outbreak very well. I was just a kid, and lived on E80, between London and Manchester. I have a permanant scar from a porch swing trying to get to the cellar. We had friends in the Laurel River area to lose everything they had. I remember the sound of livestock going over our heads. The hay was stuck in the side of the house like nails…it was crazy!!!
come to think of it…that was a Wednesday night, Thursday morning storm and we went to school on Friday. There was no electricty and we had bag lunches. We all talked about what had happened. My teacher was Mrs. Hale, at Bush Elementary School. Wow…lots of visual memories are overloading my brain…
A former work colleague was in grade school in Lexington in 74. The Richmond KY tornado just missed his grandparent’s house. A nearby school was destroyed, looked it up, Whitehall Elementary.
Final measurement at Dorton in Pike County is 7 inches.
I can’t complain because we got about 6″ of snow, but I’m getting to the point in the year that I’m ready to pull out the shorts and move on to spring. Give me all the December- January snow you want, but after going through this wet winter I’ve had enough of precipitation. The warm in January mostly came with rain. I’m ready for it to dry up and move to some outside activities.
So what I’m hearing is 45 degrees and rain for the Lexington area. 😉
We got 5 inches of snow in the Laurel Creek area of Clay County.
One thing seems golden to me:
If it is a clipper system (fed from north) the composite of the GFS and NAM should be used (with weight in favor of the NAM)
If it is southern fed system like this last one, disregard the NAM and use the Euro and GFS (with weight in favor of the GFS).
Seems to fit. NAM with southern fed systems = Hype
Could we see a few surprise flakes tonight?
Beautiful day here in Keavy. Measured just under 6 1/2″! Got chat open if anyone wants to join in.
http://www.keavysroom.chatango.com/
Over 7 inches where i’m at in Perry Co. No power, no phone. Trees down all over. Probably no power all week. I hope all you snow lovers are happy.
I’m jealous.
I am not, since not worth it for a one to two day wonder 🙂
But for Matt: 🙁
Agreed with wxman, that would be awesome! I mean the power thing sucks, and I hope you get it back soon, but I want a storm like that.
http://www.keavysroom.chatango.com/
come in whenever you want Larkin and everyone else.
1 1/2 to 2 inches here in Rockcastle-(northern end) hoped for a little more, but no such luck.
With the full sunshine breaking out this afternoon, its leaving in a hurry. But the damage done.
well this snow event was good one for my backyard, might as well start the hype train for the next one!!!…friday?…anyone wanna bite??….lol…lol…we gotta get all we can before March 7 or so…sure looks like by then spring or (summer) may be running ramped in the east…
My yard is drying slowly , sun is shining and my jeeps wash job has got it looking marvelous!! So I’m very happy that I didn’t see a flake yesterday. Bring on spring, I’m ready to fish
MUHA HA HA HA….the snow/salty roads are coming to a street near you!!!….lol..
Went spring clothes shopping today, I am so ready for winter to be behind us. Come on, sweet summertime!
something to watch for with the next 2 to 3 POSSIBLE snow events…with the NAO staying possitive, systems have a tendancy to move east right on out to sea instead of up the coast…so with the pattern we are in the gfs is trying to show another storm next thursday and friday that sure mimics this past one…so folks that got snow yesterday may be in line for another wet snowstorm in this pattern….
The perfect snow for me. Kids went out sledding, now the sun is out getting rid of it. Pretty while it lasted, now let the melting begin. Today has been great weather wise. Actually had to shed the jacket while watching the kids.
Yeah the sun has destroyed the snow, and now the shaded areas are the only parts with snow