Good evening gang. Rain,snow and high winds are on the increase across central and eastern Kentucky as Sandy begins to have a major impact on our weather. As precipitation increases… temps will start to fall this evening and snow will mix in with the rain east of I-75. Heavier precipitation will then move in overnight and that will pull down even colder air with more in the way of snow occurring.
The afternoon runs of the NAM and GFS are trending colder quicker and that ups the chance for snow. The folks at the HPC have expanded the risk area for tonight and Tuesday…
My snowfall forecast remains unchanged…
The prime time for accumulating snow will be from midnight to 10am with the greatest concentration across the east and southeast. Again… we are dealing with a warm ground soe a lot of snow will be melting. Still, it will snow faster than it can melt at times with elevated surfaces faring the best. I’m not expecting a big impact on roads, except for the higher elevations.
More updates later tonight. Take care.
Thanks for the updates. Prayers for those in the storm’s paths and those in harm’s way.
Snow been trying to mix in with the rain here in Keavy area.
Hurricane Sandy is no longer a HURRICANE! Post-tropical now and now SUPERSTORM SANDY!
Its still 40 degrees in Pikeville.
It has been flurrying here in Madison county for 3 hours. Why is the radar showing it as drizzle instead of flurries?
Sometimes when the temps aren’t below freezing and it is snowing/flurrying the radar wont register it as snow.
Living on a hill and surrounded by huge trees is scary on a night like this. It must be truly awful between here and the coast. Unbelievable. What else can Mother Nature throw at us this year?
Ice.
Had to say it…pray we don’t get it.
I would say, “Bite your tongue!”, but that doesn’t apply to typing. 🙂
When Chris mentioned the unusual weather events of 2012, he didn’t list the derecho. We got a lot of damage from that but nothing like the northeast. The northeast is really getting slammed with wind this year.
when typing you say “sit on your hands!”
Will be interesting to see if the precip shield can advance westward any farther tonight. Right now it’s pretty much running into a wall. Looks like the NAM model performed a little better so far.
Though a big storm, Sandy energy is a little gurlee man compared to the jet stream. The jet stream is a factor that defines our weather and is a permanent relative. Sandy is an obnoxious date in comparison.
Scary watching Jim Cantore and listening to the wind howl outside!
Anderson Cooper and Rob Marciano can’t get live video. They are right in the middle of it.
I wish Cantore would come do a snow report since he is a thundersnow magnet, lol. 😀
A weather noob question:
So this blocking that made Sandy turn from northeast to eventually northwest to west. Why is it going to allow the storm to suddenly turn back to the northeast if it made it turn west northwest?
http://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/NCOMAGWEB/appcontroller?prevPage=Model&MainPage=index&image=&page=Param&cycle=10%2F29%2F2012+18UTC&rname=UPPER+AIR+PARMS&pname=250_wnd_ht&pdesc=&model=GFS&area=NAMER&cat=MODEL+GUIDANCE&fcast=006&areaDesc=North+America+-+US+Canada+and+northern+Mexico&prevArea=NAMER&currKey=model&returnToModel=&imageSize=M
See how the jet stream flows into the deep south, but then makes a sharp curve into the Great Lakes? Wild huh? That’s the steering current for the storm…Sandy cannot keep going west because the jet stream is blowing south to north.
As big as Sandy is do you think it could possibly disrupt the steering of the jet stream now that its on land? Hell she’s done everything else historic and off the chart’s. Its highly unlikely and no met would say that in a public manner unless it did happen. This is a extremely disrespectful storm.
Not likely. The jet stream is basically part of the atmosphere’s constants. Sandy is temporary and will get smacked hard by the jet stream and will turn on up northward as a result.
If Sandy beat the jets stream, we would have bigger worries.
simple answer the blocking high moves away and the normal west to east movement of winds that these latitudes normally has resumes.
Friend reporting snow @ Walmart in Hazard.
Very strong wind gusts in London. I imagine we will have some tree damage by morning. Everyone hang on.
31 mph gust in Nashville TN. The highest elevations near the Tennessee/North Carolina border could get over two feet of snow. Perhaps even a few flakes for higher elevations of far north Georgia.