Good evening, folks. Our boring weather pattern looks to roll on for the next few days as we watch a southern system that COULD impact parts of the state. Things do try to change around a little bit late next week, but it continues to look awfully mild into Christmas week.
A little bit of cloud cover moves in on Friday with temps at or above normal for late day highs.
By the time we get into the weekend, a slow-moving storm system will be working across the deep south. There is still a chance for some of the showers with that to get into southern and southeastern Kentucky. The NAM keeps seeing this potential better than other models…
As that gets out of the way, temps in the 50s look common for the days around Christmas and on Christmas Day. That deserves a bah humbug!!!
The models are trying to knock that down a bit late next week. The Euro is seeing something similar to the Canadian…
Looking farther down the road, we find the pattern flipping by the time we end the year and begin 2020. You can see this with the European Ensembles…
Other than that… I got nothing, snow lovers. 🙁
Have a great evening and take care.
That is not good Chris:( By the 2nd of January, you are always going into “spring mode.” I hope you will keep the “spring talk and wishes” off of the blog until at least February 1st so we can keep snow hope alive as it was still hot just 8 weeks ago into October and not ready for warmer/wet weather, but this is YOUR BLOG, so you can do and say what you want:)
I know what you are saying, Terry. But might as well talk Spring. Local Met on TV here just said cold won’t return until 2020. Sure is a bleak time for Winter/snow lovers. Not even a crumb or morsel to look forward to.
Some of the local mets in Louisville have highs in the mid 60’s on Christmas Eve. At least the record highs for Christmas Eve and Day are mostly out of reach.
20 years ago in 1999, Louisville got 4-6 inches of snow on Christmas Eve morning from an overachieving clipper. Only 1-2 was forecasted, but heavy snow ended up falling for several hours in the predawn hours that tripled the expectant accumulations. It was a great Christmas. I remember Christmas morning temperatures got down to 0 with the snowpack.
I think Chris is keeping it “cool” with 50s. Unless we manage a lot of clouds, 60s looks likely except maybe far northern KY and the highest peaks down my way. Right now, Harlan has 64 forecasted by NWS for Christmas day.