Good Tuesday, folks. The calendar says April, but the weather is looking and feeling more like late February or early March. We have a quick-hitting system rolling across the state today and it’s bringing a little light rain and light snow with it. This is all part of a continued ugly looking setup.
Let’s begin with what’s shaking out there today. A band of light rain and light snow is streaking from southwest to northeast today. There’s even the chance for a quick coating of snow on elevated surfaces across areas of central and eastern Kentucky.
Temps under this band of precipitation will drop into the 30s for a time. Outside of the rain/snow action, temps are in the balmy 40s, but winds will make it feel chillier. I will have your tracking toys in a bit.
Temps behind this tonight and Wednesday morning will be frigid, setting the stage for a hard freeze. Temps drop deep into the 20s for many…
Temps remain much colder than normal through the rest of the week. Another weak system makes a run at us late Wednesday or early Thursday with another one late Friday into Saturday. Here’s the GFS…
The Canadian tries to slow that system down and turn it into a bigger weather maker later in the weekend…
I will throw you another update until later today. Until then, let’s see if we can find some mid-April snowflakes…
Lexington
Winchester
Bowling Green
Pikeville
Pine Mountain
Jenkins
Mt. Vernon
London
Corbin
Mountain Parkway near Slade
Morehead
Make it a great day and take care.
The ugly will not last.
Thanks, Chris.
Update: NWS Morristown TN has preliminary indications of an EF3 tornado at Chattanooga, two fatalities.
https://twitter.com/NWSMorristown
Thankfully, my folks in the area are fine.
A very good thing is that my parents and I have had easy contact since this EF3.
But in the aftermath of the infamous April 27 2011 outbreak, downed lines/towers and overloaded phone circuits made most communications impossible. A long, unnerving eternity seemed to p`a`s`s before my brother finally discovered our parents were safe. Turned out an EF4 missed our parents by less than eight miles.
As annoying as a little cold/snow may be this time of year, still better than tornadoes.
Mark, glad everything is okay with your family. I wish this year would get past us. It’s just been too much. God Bless you and your Family.
Thanks Chris. We will not likely see snow as we have a hard feeeE warning for tonight and tomorrow morning. Doesn’t that usually mean clear skies? On any event winter had its chance so it needs to stop trying to muscle in on spring! Have a great day all and stay safe and warm.
A few festive flurries in Richmond today. I find it oddly invigorating. 🙂
Teeny tiny flakes falling in Lex at the moment.
Brief pa*s*s*ing snow showers are occurring here in the SW Chicago suburbs this afternoon. It’s a very windy, chilly day with temps in the upper 30s, but we’ve had peeks of the sun in between the snow showers.
It got down to 28 degrees this morning at the NWS office in Romeoville (30 degrees at O’Hare Airport in Chicago), with a wind chill of 17. Record lows here for this time of year are in the low 20s.
One year ago today O’Hare Airport received over 5 inches of snow!
I got pictures from friends up in Corbin Kentucky it’s snowing and ground is white!!