Good Monday, folks. Bitterly cold temps are with us to begin the week as we wait on more winter weather to blow our way. 3 different systems are tracking toward the state from Wednesday through Sunday and all three may put down accumulating snows.
The first system is along a cold front rolling our way late Tuesday into Wednesday. Temps go above freezing ahead of this front, meaning rain is with us to start. That rain moves in late Tuesday and goes into early Wednesday. As the front moves in, temps take a dive allowing the rain to change to a mix then snow from west to east…
Some accumulations and another ice up are possible late Wednesday into Thursday morning. The best chance appears to be across central and eastern Kentucky.
Behind that system, an arctic front moves in Thursday night and early Friday with the potential for another round of snow. Then another arctic system dives in over the weekend and may bring another snowmaker into town. This system tries to dig in pretty deep. Here are all three systems on the GFS…
The new GFS has a similar look, but shows a 4th system early next week…
So does the Canadian…
While the first two systems this week do bear watching, the setup this weekend into early next week has a very intriguing look to it.
I will hook you up with other updates later today. Have a good one and take care.
Looks like Clipper flights will be landing in Kentucky.
They can land at the newly named Muhammad Ali Airport.
Regarding that airport. SDF. Mr Ali was a Louisville native. Saw him in the Pittsburg airport once. When are we going to invest in Parkinson’s research and cures folks??
https://youtu.be/Agw2E6pGHw4
It’s a clipper which means it will be landing at Bowman field. (LOL)
I am glad to see the northern branch get active myself! At least SE KY can get some action, even if small snows. Of course, we will eventually want both the northern and subjet to marry for a big snow baby, but since they haven’t got along very well lately, we will enjoy some snow from the north:)
https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/index.php#
If you go to day 3, WPC already shows SE KY in moderate risk for at least 4 inches of snow! I know, no one wants to get excited but we are only 72 hours out, actually a little less!
Easy tiger
I’m not excited about these higher heating bills that comes along with this colder weather. But it is what it is. – 5 here where I live in Southern Ohio.
Positve 7 was my low and now up to 8 but no snow on the ground. If I had snow, it would have been lower!
5 here this morning feel like low was -1 and 0 snow
5 degrees for a low this morning at my place in Valley Station with a near 2″ snowpack. Right now, though, it has warmed to a tropical 12 degrees. Yay!
Both the old and new gfs show a pretty significant hit for central and eastern ky wed/thurs. CB doesn’t seem to be putting much stock into it. The GFS has been the most accurate for the Ashland area, hands down. Hope we are on to something here!
I noticed that too! I am not much for arctic air chasing rain but every once in a blue moon, or a blood wolf moon (LOL), we can actually put down some decent accumulation with a set-up like this. I am interested but not yet overly excited myself!
The model run I used was from last evening, the 0z run of the GFS and ran it through Thursday afternoon. It does show more snowfall for eastern Kentucky than the rest of the state. The numbers do not look that impressive, but 2-4″ is better than an inch here or there. I’ll save that run and compare it to other runs of the GFS but really think beyond today’s runs, the GFS will get in trouble.
At this point, I’ll gladly take 2 inches of snow. That’s shown up consistently on the gfs for wed into thurs? We will see!
My thermometer hit 2 here in Jessamine County this morning. My daughter couldn’t get her car to start this morning so took mine. Guess I’m stuck in the house all day.
Yeah, I was just telling my daughter this kind of cold is really hard on a car.
Wow, looks like some crazy temp swings this week. Single digits, 50s, and everything in between.
intriguing = heavy rain 🙂 ….. we still love you chris!!
So with these next systems, we might bust 3″ for snow totals so far this winter 🙂 😉 Northern boarder areas might breach 6 to 8″!!!!