Good Tuesday to one and all. Your friendly weather-dude isn’t feeling so friendly tonight as a high fever and flu-like symptoms have me down. NyQuil is on the job, so blame that for any misspellings or stupid comments. Oh wait… nevermind.
Headlines:
– A weak front is crossing the region today and will cause clouds and scattered showers to increase. This isn’t a washout, but one or two of them may find you. The tracking tools at the top will help you run away from them.
– A scattered shower may hang tough into Wednesday as milder air pushes in. Temps hit the upper 40s and low 50s today… 50s Wednesday and 60s for Thursday.
– A stronger front will move in Thursday night and early Friday. This will bring gusty winds, showers and some thunder and much colder air for the weekend. Some flakes are possible later Friday into Saturday.
– A few of the models develop a wave or low pressure along this front and that could make things a bit interesting. Could is the key word there.
Here’s a quick look back at the weekend snowstorm that had one of the sharpest accumulating cutoffs that I have ever seen. You could literally drive 20 miles and go from no snow to 4 or 5 inches of the white stuff.
Don’t believe me? Check out this amazing satellite shot from space that shows what a distinct cutoff there was:
That was taken shortly after daybreak Monday morning. The dark-colored areas show the bare ground. The white areas show the varying levels of snowfall. That is an amazing thing to look at and really shows where the moisture ran into a wall of drier air that was filtering in from the north.
For those who weren’t happy to see the snow missed their backyard. Keep this in mind… the power outages will have a longer life span than the snow that caused them. Most of the snow will be gone today, while the power won’t be on to some areas until later this week.
My NyQuil is kicking in, so I should wrap this up. Think I can get an endorsement deal from it? Me, either. Have a great Tuesday and take care.
Take care Chris!!!! Prayers for your speedy recovery.
Hope you get better quickly!
Get better soon Chris! My power just now came back on. I have been snowed in with no electricity since the snow came. I was lying here in my recliner by a kerosene heater (freezing!) and suddenly the lights came on.
I am drinking my first cup of coffee in two days ( and I’m hooked on coffee). I couldn’t get off the hill that I live on top of.
So I want to give a big shout out to the people who have to get out in these snow storms and work to help people like me. Hugs to all of you!
We had at least 8 inches or more where I live just north of Hazard.
hope you feel better soon Chris.
Feed a fever. Starve a cold. Hope you feel better soon. Have to have some weather news.
Is it me or does that sat immage look like a hand?
I looked at it again, and you’re right. It does look like a hand. 🙂
A gloved hand?
one flying a certain finger to those who got no snow!
One word…Tamiflu 🙂
Get better soon will be praying for you.
Hope you’re feeling better soon, Chris.
Sleeting in SE Fleming
Hope you feel better soon! Tis the season with this mild winter! The sickness has hit my house for abt a month! My husband myself and 3 kids, it just seems it wont go away! The attendance in my school district is very low due to sickness!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for what you do Chris!!!!!! Get some rest!!!
There is small hail falling here right now. Didn’t see that coming. Luckily, it’s not gonna last long.
That map appears a near carbon copy of the much dissed GFS, several days out and holding true until the event.
If this event (and ALL winter) does not put it to rest, the NAM seems to be junk for southern fed systems and only good for clipper events (northern fed).
The snow maps estimates may not make big news, but is what it is.
NAM = Lucy’s football
For which I urged folks for several days NOT to try and kick unless in the east and south east.
It seems even Chris has fallen into the trap of criticizing others for not being happy with no snow.
My take is that he is just offering some perspective and context. I don’t think it is meant to be criticism.
Agreed. I am glad it missed where I live, since we would have been without power. Not been an event it has not happened, including 98 and all ice events.
Ironically, I think most folks are happy they missed the snow, since losing your power and dealing with the funky sudden melt is not worth the less than two day life of the snow.
Short term gain for longer term loss (no power). Heavy snow is not tree or structure friendly.
I think most folks do not mind missing the higher totals, due to the power issues.
hope ya feel better soon chris!!…snow is melting faster than ice cubes in a microwave! here this morning…drip,drip,drip…winds are blowing crazy, and it feels like spring is in the air!!…crazy Kentucky weather…
Winds are really gusting at times..No doubt will hinder lineman trying to repair outages..With an allready saturated ground trees can uproot easy..Be safe out there and avoid walking around trees if at all possible..
Here we go again. GFS predicting another southern branch system to bring heavy snow to Kentucky on Tuesday. LOL. We just keep getting teased. I’m ready for the t-storms! Looks like the first weekend of March might bring a flop to twisters instead of snow chances.
WXman, I just looked at the 12z GFS and it appeared there are two systems to watch next week. One on Monday calm tuesday and another on Wednesday. Days 6 and 8. Can you confirm? Thanks.
Well, in the 12Z run today what you see is snow moving in here Tuesday night and continuing into Wednesday evening. So it shows 24 hours of snow that would be moderate at times.
As mentioned though, this is only one run and nobody is going to take this seriously from 7 days out.
But one thing it’s been indicating consistently is a possible severe weather outbreak toward that first weekend of March. It definitely looks like March is going to start out WET.
12z EC has the same system as well but weaker. CMC is further north. This is something to watch but don’t get excited yet.
I noticed this also…12z GFS is rocking full of snow chances…too bad its only one run.
GFS has been more in line with these type systems. It has been the NAM that is the hyped fairy tail.
WOW! looks several great opportunities clear into march. Several shots a a nice …………..cold rain!
Chris I hope you feel better have had the same thing.I was one of the lucky ones here to not lose power.Snow has melted now nice beautiful day out.
Severe threat is there for Thursday particularly for southern KY. Feel better soon Chris.
I’m ready for a dry up. My vehicles need cleaned up in the worst way. I’m the type of person that doesn’t wash a vehicle if rain is within 2 or 3 days. It’s been a bad winter for clean cars.
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