Good afternoon, everyone. As flooding issues persist across the state, light snow and cold winds are taking center stage. This action will slow down as the day wears on, but a weak front may bring a few more flakes in here as we hit Wednesday.
First things first and that’s the flooding. Numerous counties remain under Flood Warnings…
Rivers will continue to run high and in flood for some areas through the next few days.
Today’s light snow is producing some coatings across many areas of central and eastern Kentucky. With temps around freezing or a touch below, watch for a few slick spots developing on area roads. That may especially be the case once the sun goes down.
Another weak front drops in on Wednesday and may spit out some flakes in the north and east…
Wednesday is a cold day with several locations staying in the 20s…
Gusty winds will make it feel like the teens for much of the day…
Things calm down for Thursday and Friday as we focus on a southern storm system. This is a highly anomalous look to the pattern with a cutoff low working across the deep south and into the Caribbean. I’m still watching for this to trend a bit farther north and that’s what the Canadian is doing with it late this weekend…
Regardless, that’s not a good look for anyone wanting a White Christmas… Or even a cold one.
Here are your Tuesday afternoon 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
Make it a great day and take care.
With temps just below 40 degrees and just some minor festive flakes there shouldn’t be any road issues in my area maybe in the AM from runoff perhaps.
Are the low roads (tunnels) under water down in Barbourville as usual?
Some are yes.
No rain and mild.
I will take that over cold raining.
Of course next week’s system will likely trend north with at at least SE KY getting in on some rain. Probably a lot of rain before all is said and done. BLAH!
Don’t want to hear comment we are watching this for 3 or 4 days away and there no coating down here Bailey. Why nobody cane see me at cardinal hill rehab as my stroke bout took me out if the last month had anything to say this winter going be a bust as the models are junk as usual with last 2 system of any size goes and been s miss. Bailey you need to explain things better on Tab as some people don’t read blog to know what’s going on. You mentio snow and some these idiots think you blew for day.
Rolo I don’t think Bailey is coating anything if that’s what your saying. Everybody that’s live here in KY for a long time ought to know that 95 percent of time if we get any snow it’s usually Jan through March time frame. It’s a rarity we get a decent snowfall in December but it has happened.
Yeah, December 22, 1969. Was the afternoon that 5 inches of snow fell in southwest Indiana, which was the beginning of one snowstorm after another that continued through March 1970. The one that cap them all was the 22 inches of snow fell on December 23, 2004. One thing that these years had in common was the presents of a weak El nino. NOAA is giving this late December a 30% chance of a weak El nino developing, but it seems we are stuck in ENSO neutral now going on three years. Oh, wait we had one of those years of ENSO La nina which translates into no snow for the Ohio Valley. Just cold dry air. I notice on the weather maps that a huge Pacific high pressure is moving east and will continue the Northwest flow until it hooks up with the southeast ridge maybe by next weekend. I could not find the cut off low that Chris is showing on his blog along the Gulf. Doesn’t matter it has nothing negative from the Arctic to phase with anyway and make a complete storm, which seems to be lacking in the southern plains states. The next week we will dry out if we have plenty of sunshine. You are right Winter Lover we don’t receive that much snow in December and snow on Christmas is very rare especially where I live now. Severe weather has started in the southern states already and is a little concerning for us this coming Spring season, but that depends on where the jet stream sets up ? We shall see.
Kentucky/Tennessee tend to have their bigger severe weather outbreaks during La Nina periods (tornadoes in January and March 1890, April 3 1974 Super Outbreak, Spring 2011, January/February and especially March 3 2012 including West Liberty KY).
But exceptions do occur. El Nino can mean more Deep South severe wx such as early 1998. Indeed, Feb 1998 had Florida’s deadliest tornado outbreak. But April 16 1998 also had a big outbreak in KY and TN (including downtown Nashville).
i will take 60 on Christmas versus 40 degree rain, maybe a good snow shows its self in January?
In a snow drought.