Good afternoon, everyone. It’s a cold and wintry day across Kentucky as snow showers and flurries continue to increase. This is leaving light accumulations for many, but it could just be the start of a fun pattern leading up to Christmas. The pattern argues for a weekend fence system before the potential for a snow maker just before the big day.
A northwest flow continues to keep low-level moisture across the Commonwealth, leading to snow showers. Watch for coatings up to local 1″ amounts for some, especially in the east. Here are your radars to follow along…
Flurries linger into Friday morning before clouds begin to break with below normal temps continuing.
Our next system pushes in from west to east Saturday into Sunday. This has the potential for light rain and light snow. Here’s the NAM…
The Canadian Model sees the weekend and tries to develop another system just to our east late Sunday and Monday. The model keeps the rain and snow potential into the start of the new week…
The GFS is actually hinting at something similar…
The EURO takes all this a step further in dropping a second system in from the northwest on Tuesday…
With a subtle dip in the jet stream becoming a little stronger looking, there’s nothing to say that couldn’t turn into a little bigger surface low. Something to watch for.
An arctic front looks to crash in behind all this by next Wednesday or into Christmas Eve. The pattern has been very consistent in showing this for a while now and I’m still thinking we get low pressure to develop along this thing.
The GFS brings the arctic front in with a wave of low pressure along it, producing snow. It then follows it up with the upper level system that produces another round of light snow for Christmas Day…
The Canadian continues to be slower with a much bigger storm system…
The EURO is back to a simple arctic front passage with light snow lagging behind it…
The Christmas morning lows…
Wind chills…
I will have another update later this evening and will have the latest on WKYT. Enjoy the rest of the day and take care.
