Good Monday everyone. Sandy continues to churn toward a history making landfall along the New Jersey coastline later today or tonight. This storm will then join forces with a nasty dip in the jet stream to produce a severe nor’easter. As we have talked about many times… this has never happened before in recorded history.

Our superstorm will then slowly work toward the west and southwest and throw moisture back into central and eastern Kentucky. This will be in the form of rain and snow and the snow aspect is what’s getting everyone’s attention. We are just days away from Halloween and, not only are we talking about the first flakes of the season flying, but also the fist accumulating snows for many.

The latest snowfall maps from the models continue to hold course…

NAM

GFS

The GFS shows a much colder thermal profile for later today through Tuesday and thus shows higher totals and a better chance of accumulations into central Kentucky.

I am going to go the safe route and hold the numbers I put out Sunday afternoon…

I continue to show a fairly large spread because of the melting factor, but the numbers coming from the models say I’m underdone. I will put out a couple more snowfall maps later today and a final call will be the one that will be of record.

This isn’t a one trick pony of a storm as it’s going to pack one heck of a punch across the state. Some of the highlights…

 

I will have updates throughout the day and will have updates via my twitter feed: @kentuckyweather . A 27 First Alert Severe Weather Day has been called on WKYT and this will carry us through the duration of the storm. That means you will see expanded weather coverage during the news shows and you will get live updates each and every hour on WKYT. I may not sleep this week. 🙂

Have a great Monday and take care.