Good Sunday and Merry Christmas Eve! If you know anything about your friendly weatherdude, you know I am a Christmas nut, so I always love this time of year. Throw a little snow into it all and I go into full 5 year old Christmas CB mode. 🙂
I have no changes in the overall thought process for how things roll out there today. Here’s a recap:
- Our day starts with the potential for some slick spots on area roads, but the main action won’t arrive until this afternoon and evening.
- Temps spike ahead of the precipitation moving in, with eastern Kentucky hitting 40.
- A mix of rain and snow quickly develops with a rapid switch to light snow across the west and central parts of the state. That switch waits a little longer in the east.
- A period of light to moderate snow then sweeps across the state, leaving behind light accumulations into Christmas morning.
- With wet roads and temps crashing quickly through the 20s, icy roads are likely to develop Christmas Eve.
- How much snow will actually fall? Here’s the Latest Call For Snowfall:
The lines are just there to provide a rough estimate on where the best accumulations setup. There may be some pockets of lower and higher amounts showing up within all that.
That’s not a lot of snow, but it can cause some big travel issues after dark.
Flurries carry us into Christmas Morning, with a very cold day taking shape. Clouds will try to break somewhat, but another system is zipping in here Christmas night and Tuesday,
You can see this well on the Hi Res NAM…
The 12km NAM is also picking up on that and another one right after it…
Don’t be surprised if both of those don’t put down some 1″ snows around here.
The next system arrives by Thursday and Friday and may become a bigger snow producer around here. The models have shown this consistently for a while now…
Similar systems try to follow that up for New Year’s weekend into the first week of 2018.
In addition to the snow threat… the pattern features brutal air continuing to take control of much of the country. The Canadian goes crazy with the cold before we end the year…
I will have updates later today, so check back. Merry Christmas Eve and take care.
That Thursday and Friday system looks good but it never plays out that way.
I am cautiously optimistic.
It also looks like less snow than the previous runs, but that should not be surprising.
If you look at the radar the snow that coming is the biggest show in town in the lower 48. Most aren’t getting any more snow than we are for now.
Thanks Chris, to me we missed a major snow event this past Friday night and Saturday, due to the lack of a northern component to combine with a strong surge of moisture from the Gulf. In my 66 years I only seen three White Christmas’s. The best was in 1969. Merry Christmas to you and your family and may God Bless.
Merry Christmas Chris and all of his weather weenies…..I too get like a five year old when snow is forecasted. Thanks for the update, it looks like ole man winter is knocking on our door for the forseeable future. Hopefully theses ankle biters are just the start to something bigger later this week and beyound. Just hope the cold does not come in to strong to fast and surprise the late weekend system further south.
Thanks Chris!
Everybody have a Very Merry Christmas!
Be kind.
Thanks CB! It’s christmas Eve, and we might have a White Christmas!!! I’m a kid again! Merry Christmas to you and your family, and to my fellow ‘weather weenies’! ❄️❄️
Happy Christmas Eve, CB and fellow weather weenies! Here’s to the magic of Christmas snow (well, all manner of snow, actually) and its ability to bring out the little kid in all of us.
God bless us every one.
God bless you all. Merry Christmas!!
Hope someone gets their white Christmas…I’m sure I will be watching it all to my north from here in central TN….merry Christmas all…
Don’t feel so bad. I live near Washington DC and we’ve barely gotten anything so far…which is a shock to me because I live farther north and I would expect snow more often and much bigger snows etc
I am happy for you snow lovers, a little snow for Christmas is ok for this guy. However, after that, hope the “potential” deep freeze and multiple snow chance suggestion becomes a bust as it was this month.Way too early to pay attention to those models, as we’ve all learned, so come on 50 and sunny haha
The actual trend has shown that your wish will likely come true Mark.
Anybody else notice how absolutely nobody has the late Monday, into Tuesday snow in their forecast? I see plenty of 0% chance of anything, though lol. With CB saying either of these small disturbances could put down an inch, it’s a little odd that nobody is even mentioning them besides Bailey.
Maybe, because the NAM is the only model picking up the disturbance?
That and the models overall have backed off on the snow for the coming week. Even CB’s outlook has diminished from what he was discussing for the past two days. Also not seeing the Threat word. Longest streak BTW so far for no official threat modes by CB. This is going way back to the TG Shuck days.
Shocking!
Although the models might pick the Friday storm up again.
As Chris says watch the trends.
CB did use the word threat. Poor comprehensive reading skills. Owning it.
The storm is actually coming back around. Your most hated winter type precip is in play for at least half of Kentucky, if not more. I-64 being the typical battleground.
The FENCE!!! Merry Christmas.
Here in Southern Ohio where I live the National Weather Service out of Charleston WV is only giving a 20 percent chance for snow Tuesday & Tuesday night.
Radar trends NOT good for today’s snow. Happy green ground Christmas Eve. Rodger in Dodger!
I am not going to sweat over achieving festive flakes.
Another accumulating salt event.
I am sorry l forgot to install the word about in the sentence above.
Actually radar trends look just fine…as it approaches Kentucky, the radar will feather out and that’s where the “bursts” of snow will take over. That a why it’s hard to give a forecast outside of general area of, as CB said.
Looking for rain to burst out in the Huntington area. Then the dreaded backside flurries.
Looks like the potential is there for some real winter weather starting middle of the week and into the first few days of 2018. Gonna be exciting to atleast follow and see how the models play out and hopefully we see some of the white stuff here in Pikeville.
Bring it on. I got my snow shovel ready for my wife. Lol.
I’ll take the 2-4″ CB has me getting ..Merry Christmas