Good Tuesday, folks. It’s another frigid weather day across the bluegrass state as arctic air continues to pour in from the northwest. This hangs tough through the middle of the week, then the pattern hits the active button once again. That means additional potent storm systems targeting the region, potentially bringing strong thunderstorms.
Let us begin with today and roll forward. Temps are frigid and gusty winds are making it feel even colder. Those northwest winds may also team up with a weak disturbance to produce a few flurries or snow showers. The best chance for that is in the north and east…
Wednesday is a calm and cold day as temps slowly come out of the icebox.
Another system works in here Thursday and Friday, bringing the potential for a swath of light snow on the front end and some rain on the back end. The NAM only goes through 7am on Friday, but gives us a good look at the swath of accumulating snow…
The Canadian has a similar look…
Milder air surges in here behind that low, with rising numbers ahead of a more potent storm system taking shape for the weekend. That sets the stage for a big time storm system to develop in the plains. That has the chance to produce some big thunderstorms from the plains into the Appalachian Mountains…
GFS
Canadian
High winds may also be a player with this storm system.
A similar storm will follow that up early next week…
I’ll have another update later, so check back. Make it a good one and take care.
Yep, there is that return of the rain train I mentioned last week for around the 10th and beyond. Actually, the “dry week” last week failed Harlan as I ended up with almost 2 inches total from a few different systems with 1.09 of the total falling on Sunday. I am nearing an incredible 20 inches year-to-date! To put this total into perspective, it would normally take until late May or first of June to reach 20 inches on a season—just WOW. I am way ahead of 2018-to-date and so is Black mt mesonet. The mesonet is over 22 inches but I never receive as much rain due to this mesonet’s extreme elevation; however, I am only a little over 2 inches less on the season-to-date. Also for perspective, if and only IF the same average amount of rain where to keep falling for the rest of the year, I would be on track for 100 inches!!! Not likely to happen but 80 inches looks easier to obtain than it should be!
Is this year going to beat out 2018’s 70 inches of rain? It could but maybe a pattern change late in the year happens? Until then, I still see no change for the near future….choo choo!
Misery . This is a depressing state to live in.
That’s definitely a matter of one’s opinion.
No. Many studies have shown a correlation an overall happier and healthy population in sunny climates.
I like four seasons, but we seem to no longer get those anymore.
By mid to late May, June, July, August, September all this will be a distant memory. Sunshine and warmth will dominate.
I hope you are right. We are going on 1.5 years with lots of rain. Never had a true summer last year. I’m hoping for at least some strertches of dry weather this summer.
We haven’t had a true Spring in years
The rain train continues.
For the misery part that could have helped ease the excessive rain blues but hasn’t, I think we should easily be in the top 5 least snowiest winters down here in far SE KY too. Unfortunately, NWS doesn’t seem to have official data for smaller towns like Harlan, Barbourville, Middlesboro, Pineville and other locations. I have asked Mike S if he has any data but no response still. So, I cant really prove we are in top 5 least snowiest without data but I am currently at 3 inches on the season, most of this snow was back in late November under those snow squalls with other areas nearby less than my location for snow. As if right now, I am less than both last year and 2012 season (my data), so I think we are in running for least snow in a season, at least for my hometown since I have been alive!
I totally AGREE Terry.
I have not forgotten. Actually, I am in the process of finding additional data. Right now, I can only find climate records back to 2014 in Harlan at the Tucker Guthrie Memorial airport…still awaiting some of that data
With Sundays half inch snowfall it knocked both Huntington and Charleston WV. Out of the top 10 least snowiest Winters. Some how Huntington made it over 5 inches and Charleston over 7 inches. I have no idea how they received that much. They must have measured at day break or immediately after the flakes stopped. They both had to finish 11th or 12th.
In my county of Taylor the accumulating snow this winter was NOTHING to even report.
In my part of Richmond we have had, perhaps, 3.5 inches of snow and never more than .5 inches at a time… Not great but not unusual. Seems like 2012 – 2015 were good snow years, 2004 – 2012 were not great.
The groundhog must’ve looked at the GFS 3+ days out when he predicted and early spring. It’s 12 degrees in my hood in LouMetro.
I was at 19 before the sun came out for my low. Way up high at that mesonet on Black mt, 6 was the last temp I saw. What a huge difference elevation makes!
RIP Winter….MVP rain train…hope there aren’t any tornadoes with this storm system.
If Storms fire up South of Tennessee, you can bet that will sap the Severe Threat for Kentucky
Rodger thinks it’s safe to say snow possibilities are over. What a disappointing winter for snow fans! March is even a dud this year. Over and out – I’m Rodger in Dodger
I don’t know if all the flurries we’ve had this winter combined would give us an inch total in Wayne County….perhaps 2 inches max. The largest snow we had in my backyard came on a Sunday morning and was gone in a little over an hour. Definitely one of the most snowless winters I or Thelma Lou have ever seen.
What about Juanita?
Not really sure why we’re still talking about snow…that door is closed and the winter was a bust. Let’s talk about the dominantly 60+ degree temps coming next week!