Good Tuesday, everyone. Flooding continues to slowly wind down across the bluegrass state as colder air sweeps back in. This will bring a touch of winter weather and snow to the area today, before the pattern calms down for the next several days.
Let’s start with the ongoing flood situation. Many areas picked up 1″-3″ of rain, with some local amounts pushing 4″ since Sunday. That was more than enough to cause plenty of issues and some schools are even closed today because of the high water.
With the rain moving out, a period of winter weather and snow is with us this morning. This moves from northwest to southeast, impacting areas of central and eastern Kentucky. Some elevated surfaces may see some light accumulations before the flakes taper off.
Another weak front arrives Wednesday and may produce a flake or two in the north and northeast. This is a cold day in the bluegrass state…
Gusty winds will add an extra layer of cold to the region…
The longer range pattern this weekend into early Christmas week looks anomalous to say the least. The models are taking a cutoff low rolling across the Gulf, crossing Florida and into the Caribbean. That keeps all the moisture just to our south and allows for a mild ridge to pop behind this…
EURO
Canadian
That’s really, really an odd solution that looks suspect to me. We shall see/
I will update things later today, so y’all come back.
Here are your early day tracking toys…
Covington area
Florence
Interstate 71 in Gallatin County
Maysville
Louisville
Georgetown
Frankfort
Morehead
Lexington
Pine Mountain
Mt. Vernon
Corbin
Mountain Parkway near Slade
Have a good one and take care.
All long distance models should be looked upon as suspect.
Especially during the winter months.
Yeah, that rain will trend north…LOL. TRENDS!
So will the blow torch. Locally, models have 50s and near 60 EVERY DAY next week. Nice spring feeling Christmas. BLAH!
The infamous three day polar vortex bringing cold and dry will be here in mid-January. Then the warm rain train will come back into town before giving way to a couple of days of average winter temps and dry. Bubbas 32 degree rule will prevail this winter I really hope the moisture stays south and allows us to dry out. I will take 50s and 60s with dry conditions.
LOL, TRENDS! Then, we will have a few days in early spring with snow showers and big frost, quickly followed by 6 plus months of around 90 with a ton of rain and humidity!
Harlan did miss the bulk of the heaviest rain compared to all areas west and north of me, barely. The models were close, but still had my area a little less rainfall than reality. It is still raining but I haven’t reached the 2 inch mark yet but getting close. I did top 60 inches last night on the year-to-date, WOOT…LOL. This is yet another year hitting 60 or more inches of rain and most of the years in the 2000s so far have, annual average is suppose to 48 inches.
Unless we have an epic, disastrous flood event to end December, it should be safe for me to say I want pick up another 10 inches this month to tie last year, but who knows with this crazy warm, wet weather, LOL.
Is it psychological, but I’m not nearly as cold today as I was yesterday and there’s snow on the elevated surfaces here in Louisville. Man do I just HATE cold rain. I’d trade cold rain for -15 windchills any day in winter.
Brief burst of snow left a coating at my place, just 0.3″, but was pretty to watch.
Looks like CB’s December predictions for 1-3 degrees below normal temp wise and 4-8 inch snowfall looks not to pan out this go around.
I now have a grand total of 1.0″ for the snow season.
Looking at the bright side, Lexington only had 1.6″ for the snow season by the end of December 2014 and ended up with 40.0″ total thanks to February/March, the famous “back loaded winter”
That was for the Cincinnati market 😉
surely some place in KY is below average for December
CB, I was trying to figure out how that “Euro” forecast model and Canadian model posted above was in such agreement, nearly identical. Well it was identical. They are the same map of the Canadian model. Funny.
Rain storm total 2.80 inches. More than I expected from this event. I always thought that when there is severe weather to our south it robs energy and moisture, but not this time. Freezing rain mixing with a few flakes of snow this morning and bone chilling cold has made for a very miserable day so far. Looks like the storm tract has been establish for the coming Winter. In a nut shell, it looks likely it will be snowstorms north and west and cold rain over most of the Ohio Valley in the upcoming Winter. I only have those memories of the “good old days” when we would have at lease four major snowstorms during an average Winter. Signed disappointed and sad Schroeder.
This is a legitimate question. When you observed freezing rain, was it like “frozen” rain drops or was it liquid rain falling? The reason I ask is because I’ve noticed several comments in our weather community who think that freezing rain and sleet (ice pellets) are the same thing…and of course, they’re not.
Freezing mist that coated the tree branches Mike S.
Folks December isn’t over by a long shot and yes there calling it be in the 50’s this weekend. Then turn cold by Christmas shall see how it plays out rest of the month. Mother nature does work in various ways.
I don’t think it will be that cold for Christmas
I haven’t seen any of those weekly composite snowfall maps for a while. I suppose they can’t even find any future fantasy snows. That might be even worse than last year.
It’s all entertainment