Good Wednesday, everyone. A little bit of winter weather is rolling our way, but it’s really not going to amount to a whole lot. This system is bringing some light rain and light snow to the west this morning before decreasing as it works east. Another weak area of light snow moves in overnight, bringing minor accumulations.
Beyond all this, we have a wild ride for the first week of February. It’s one that will bring some ugly then a full blown case of spring fever.
Our day begins with one streak of light rain and light snow moving into the western half of the state. This weakens quickly as it moves east, but can put down some very light accumulations for some. I will have those tracking tools in a bit.
A second streak of some light rain and light snow develops this evening and moves eastward across the state overnight. This isn’t going to amount to much at all, but it is what it is.
That clears out quickly on Thursday with a partly sunny sky and temps deep into the 40s. Our next system for the weekend continues to look like splitsville with one system going up the east coast with a weaker one diving into our region on Saturday…
That will be followed by a surge of spring from Groundhog Day/Super Bowl Sunday through the middle of next week. Here are your Sunday high temps…
Monday is in the 60s with highs possibly closing in on 70 by Tuesday…
This comes crashing down behind a strong front showing up in about a week.
I will have updates later today, until then, here are your tracking tools to start things out…
Paducah
Fort Campbell
Bowling Green
E-town
Louisville
Make it a great day and take care.
Sounds good about the warmer weather. We will be talking Thunder Storms soon. I had a little light snow on my truck this morning. Not much at all.
Not much happening here but looks like a lot of light snow and rain to our west and northwest, but I don’t think it is reaching the ground ( virga ) According to the NWS out of Louisville the next several weeks will be more of the same. Not too cold and not too warm, but temperatures will average above normal and precipitation will remain slightly above normal. The oscillations are for a positive AO and a negative PNA, with the NAO and the EPO trending up and down. A strong jet stream off of the Pacific is forecast to intensify around late next month which could enhance our chances for severe weather, but hopefully not. The Arctic air at the present is extremely frigid and the Polar Low is now north of Siberia. Temperatures at the center of the Polar Low at 30,000 m are currently being recorded at minus 106 degrees. A very interesting study to say the lease.
We are in a snow drought. Never have I seen a snowless winter like we are having now. What we are leading up to are spring floods.
Three year snow drought is rare even for Kentucky, but Winter is far from over as I have seen it change drastically in the past. I bet the Ground Hog will not see his shadow on Sunday and that means six more weeks of Winter somewhere in the World. I have a confession and here it is : I have never seen any Super Bowl games and not planning to change that. I don’t like Football period. LOL
Wrong, If the Ground Hog see his shadow, we will have six more weeks of Winter.
Spelling correction least not lease.
Finally broke the snow drought here in far western ky. It snow just enough cover the ground and trees. First coverage since that November 2 inches we had.
Maybe we will get a dusting of light snow here in north Taylor County later ? This will not break the snow drought here as our average is thirteen inches yearly.
I stopped reading this post when Chris said temperatures on Tuesday might approach 70. 🙂
Meh to this winter and the last two before it for that matter. Not that we get much snow over the course, 12″+ a little, for a season avg is really not much. I would Have to go back and look at data to see if we have had three snowless winters back to back to back. I know that in the past 15 years, of me being in the landscape business, It has not happened. Not that the precipitation has not been flowing, but the cold is not showing. I will still hold out a glimmer of hope for a couple big Feb/March snows and a PV crash into out neck of the woods, but I am really close to jumping on #teamspring……but in the meantime I will still say….#thinksnow….#bots…..#enjoytheweatheritstheonlyweatheryougot.
So now you know who I follow besides Chris Bailey….and they are all snow lovers!!!! Can anyone name the three?
Well that’s completely, UNAMERICAN!
That comment was suppose to be for Schroeder for not ever watching a Super Bowl game. Somehow my comment ended up here. lol
I am as American as ” apple pie ” LOL
The warm spell that’s expected next week may lead to something that has before. I don’t what year it was mid 90s my guess it warm up to 70 degrees in Feb then bam we had back to back heavy snowfall. But the pattern were in has to break for that chance to happen
Winter Lover, I remember those snowstorms back in the late 1990’s in Evansville, Indiana.
One year ago this week, the weather couldn’t have been more different than it was compared to now for the Chicago area. We were coming off 5 to 7 inches of snow for the area on Jan. 28th, then on Jan. 29th, the Siberian Express slammed into Northern IL with a vengeance, bringing near-historic cold, with the coldest temps seen in 25 years, and turning the Chicago area into “Chi-beria.”
On Jan. 29th, the high at O’Hare Airport was 10 above, the low 10 below. On the 30th, the high was a bitter 10 below, and the low 23 below. The 10 below zero tied for the second-coldest high temp ever for Chicago, and the 23 below zero was the first time that the actual temp hit 20 below zero in the Chicago area since 1994! The 23 below also just missed the all-time record coldest temp for Chicago of 27 below set on Jan. 20th, 1985.
The extreme cold continued on the 31st, with a high of 1 degree, and a low of 21 below. The coldest wind chills for the 30th and 31st were close to 50 below zero!
Now, here we are stuck in a very blah pattern, as today will be the seventh day in a row of 100 percent cloud cover, and about an inch of snow/slush on the ground. Yesterday’s high was 33, the low 31.
There’s basically no chance of any measurable snow here for at least the next week, especially with the big warmup for Sunday and Monday. Very depressing, to put it mildly. Now I know how you guys in Kentucky/Tennessee feel with the snow drought!
Wow, those temperatures could kill a horse Illinois Mike !
Rare deep snows is what marks our Winters here in Kentucky and southern Indiana, not frigid temperatures.
Seriously CB, just let go of snow, bro! This winter ain’t it. Seems mentioning snow in the context of this wimpy winter is almost arbitrary.
Bubba, We still have February and early March to go through to get that heavy wet snow. I don’t put much stock in long range weather forecasting, which is calling for above normal temperatures through next Fall and Winter. #teamsnow
“A tiny touch of Winter for some” is an understatement for my area. About an hour ago I counted about ten flakes of snow in my backyard. The weatherman out of Louisville said ” the dry air aloft is eating away our snow.” Very sad for this snow lover.
RIP WINTER but it will be nice to have a couple days of warmer temps.
This winter’s snow drought – and cold, miserable rain – has me disgusted!
When was the latest, “significant” snow event for central KY? I want a foot of it!