Good Thursday, everyone. We’re a little over a week away from the big day and we are tracking some festive flake producing snow showers across many areas. While this is nice and all, the big question is, can we actually get some real snow for Christmas? The pattern suggests we have a chance as a deep trough dives into our part of the world.
A cold northwest wind is combining with an upper level disturbance to kick off some snow showers and periods of light snow today. This looks to carry us through tonight across parts of central and eastern Kentucky. This is where light accumulations will be possible…
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Watch for some slick spots on area roads, especially this morning. Here are your radars to track whatever flakes show up where you live…
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Highs today will likely stay at or below freezing for much of central and eastern Kentucky. Gusty winds will make it feel much colder.
Morning flurries move away early Friday with a mix of sun and clouds by the afternoon, but temps stay below normal.
The next system shows up late Saturday into early Sunday. The trend continues to be for rain and some snow showing up…
NAM through 7am Sunday…
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The setup a week from now continues to look pretty darn interesting. Christmas Eve is next Thursday and this is the period I’ve been going all in on for a major trough to dig into our region. These types of troughs are often preceded by snow and can sometimes fire up decent events around here.
Can we pull out a White Christmas? There is growing evidence that 2020 may finally do something right around here.
An arctic front likely moves in late next Wednesday and may very well have low pressure developing along it. The setup favors something like that happening. The EURO is doing a little Bing Crosby imitation…
The CANADIAN is slower and goes with an even bigger storm…
The GFS has the setup correct, but is in the typical progressive mode…
This could be some fun, folks!!!
Updates later today. Have a good one and take care.
reakky a first alert weather day for this CRAP, LAST TIME I CHECKED ITS SUPPOSED BE SEVERE WEATHER!!!!!! BARLY A SNOW SHOWER OU THERE.
Thanks Chris, Maybe we will get lucky and get some Sunshine tomorrow. This gloomy weather is not helping the Christmas mood for most. We had a good rain out of this previous event, but not a flake of snow.
Too early to predict what weather type we will have on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, but I think between now and Christmas there will be another Nor’Easter, which would put central Kentucky in the usual “no snow zone.”
I’m hoping now that the Pacific jet continues and the frigid Arctic air stays in Canada where it belongs. I don’t want another devastating Ice Storm like we had in 2009.
Schroeder, it’s the ice storm of 2003 that causes my anxiety to go up when I hear ice mentioned.
Yes,, we also had one the week of Christmas 2004. I remember being excited for a big snow, but it started Freezing Rain and out-right ICE late Tuesday into Wed. and our power was out, but thankfully came back on Christmas Eve, so we could at least cook the dinner! Meanwhile, 12 miles up the road from Bardstown and points around, as is per the usual, had nearly 8-12″ of snow. š Maybe we will all get lucky this year and even if this has been the worst year ever, Santa Claus will bring us a White Christmas! (Last year on Christmas Day, we sat out on our deck, which imo is just all kinds of wrong! š )
I wasn’t living in Kentucky in 2003 or 2004. Is this weather type (Ice Storms) a common occurrence here in the state of Kentucky ?
I remember in 1971-72 when I was attending Murray State University there was an Ice Storm and sessions were canceled.
When I was living in Indiana (57 years) I don’t recall any major Ice Storm events.
We had mild Winters and cold snowy Winters and really hot and sometimes dry Summers.
Typical Mid- West climate.
Cold rain followed by festive flakes.
Is always the safe forecast.
pouring thre snow mix here in MANVCHESTER!!!!!!!!