Good Wednesday, everyone. While we are enjoying another awesome weather day, a colder pattern is lurking as we get ready to flip from February into March. This colder pattern is going to try to begin with a storm system rolling through here over the weekend.
As always, let’s begin with today and roll forward. Highs today will be in the 60s with a mix of sun and clouds. #teamspring is loving life!
A weak system rolls across the region on Thursday as temps come back down. That’s mainly a light shower maker, but this isn’t going to be a big system by any means. Some of us may not see much of anything coming from the skies.
We have a cold front working in here by late Friday into early Saturday. How far south that front gets will be the determining factor to what happens with the storm system coming behind it for Sunday. The track of that low will dictate what kind of weather you get outside your house.
Your three options:
- The cold is so impressive that it pushes the track too far south to bring much of anything to Kentucky.
- The cold is less impressive so we get a storm track right on top of the state, bringing more of a rain threat than anything else.
- The cold is just right and allows for a storm track across the Tennessee Valley, bringing a swath of accumulating snow to the state.
As the President of #teamspring, none of those options sound particularly appealing.
The European Model and Canadian Models had been most consistent with showing a winter weather maker, but both took the rain train to work last night…
Euro
Canadian
The GFS still doesn’t really know what the heck to do…
The new GFS went the winter weather and snow route…
The Icon is similar…
The models should shake out and come into better agreement over the next 24 hours. Regardless of how this system pans out, next week is frigid… Frigid I say!
I will have updates later today, so y ‘all come back now, ya hear?
Have a good one and take care.
LOL…A lot of green there going into March, maybe not so much of the Irish snow luck.
#DieWinter2018/19!
Well theres always next winter…maybe
Yep there’s always next winter…. RIP snow.
Same pattern = same results.
A new month same results.
I’m not giving up on winter yet because in the past I’ve seen major snowstorms along with below zero temperatures in the month of March.
One thing you don’t get in March here is below zero AND snowstorms.
The reason for big snowstorms in March are the amount of moisture coming in from the gulf, combined with temps in upper 20’s to low 30’s.
March snows work for everyone because snow lovers get an end of season snow, while snow haters only have to worry about the snow being around a couple days before it melts away to the angle of the March sun and longer days.
In March 1960 we did.
I figured the rain train would make another stop. At least there should be a few more days of dry cold before it warms up to rain again.
Friday models will tell the tale. That’s how it’s been all winter and I expect no change now. Everything looks good until 24-36 hours out and then BAM, no snow for you!
Thelma Lou is rooting for option A. She don’t want anymore rain & she figures if there’s any snow it won’t be worth writing home about.
Can we buck the trend? Probably not, but I have about 1000lbs of salt still to spread so I hope the new GFS wins out. Daddy needs a new pair of shoes and a little work before my spring mowing and landscaping starts would help out. IF we get snow on the ground Sunday it won’t go anywhere for a few days as the temps next week look to stay below freezing….
Can we buck the trend?
I truly doubt it and don’t hold your breathe
If Chris is the President of #TeamSpring, Then I nominate myself the VP of Team Spring.
Who’s the president of #teamwinter ?
Like Venezuela, I don’t think any well meaning person is right now.
Looks like a rerun of that terrible sitcom that’s been playing this winter…..it needs to be canceled already. Nobody likes it.
I just hope spring ends up less wet than I think it is going too. With the oscillations staying the same, I think the rain train will too with the only change coming is more warm air to work with, yielding even heavier rain events!
Barring a weekend trend buster, this seems destined for the most unWinter evah’.
The new GFS (FV3) is a useless model. It’s been consistently wrong (too cold) all winter. So much so, that it’s official roll out has been postponed until further notice while they try to fix the problems. Sad that we can’t come up with a decent weather model these days.
Bailey needs to man up or quit. Team spring blahhhhhh, u can’t be a snow lover and root against it. Then this weekend we had severe flooding and we’re the HEAD chief, nowhere to be found while Jim Caldwell works as well as Amber Philpot. For a weather team that’s supposed to be the best in the state I think Bailey not showing up a joke. I love ya big guy, but facts are facts. So I closing u r a winter weather lover or not. U are head chief of a great weather team or not.just let Jim take over or what? Just facts y’all no hating.
Your comment is absolutely false and foolish.
Even my local Mets are saying a possibly of snow here in WKY this weekend. We shall see!!
We all should have known this was another phantom snow. It was right in front of our eyes the whole time. Anything coming from a Westerly direction is always going to produce rain especially on the front end. Just more candy for desperate snow lovers.
Jimbo I still think that most of the state will see a snowstorm before the month of March is out. Keep the good thoughts. #teamwinter too early to call #teamspring
Glad that it looks to warm up to around average highs after mid-week next week. Can’t wait for it. Unless this thing coming up is more than a couple of inches it can move to somebody else’s back yard. I’m ready for warmer days. Time change is only about 10 days away.
Well just as most of us suspected, all model mid day runs have jogged the “potential” heavier snow 100-150 miles north. By the time this system arrives it will be a near 100% rain event for the majority of KY as usual. Almost guaranteed.