Good Friday, everyone. Pockets of light snow and flurries continue to show up across the state today, with the greatest concentration across the far southeast. This comes from a system rolling into the Carolinas and will keep flakes flying into part of Saturday. Behind this comes another system that targets the region with another threat for light snow by Monday, kicking off a week that likely ends with the first arctic front.
The overachieving light snow band we’ve talked about set up across the Louisville metro. Local 2″ or 3″ amounts are showing up. This area will slowly wind down early this morning. The other is across far southeastern Kentucky where a few inches of snow may show up before the day is over. In between all this is a lot of nothing.
Here are your radars to follow along…
Low clouds look to carry us into Saturday with a few snow showers and flurries around. Cold winds will blow from the north and northwest.
The next system working out of the southwest by Monday and Tuesday continues to show up differently on each model run.
This is just getting to the end of the range of the NAM and it shows a streak of snow by Monday morning…
The GFS is a weaker and more disjointed mess…
The Canadian is a little better put together…
The EURO has shown some wild swings with this and appears to be having some issues, so I’m not wasting bandwidth by showing it.
The end of next week looks to kick off a potential exciting pattern for winter weather lovers around here and across much of the country. It’s the pattern that’s been showing itself for a while now and it continues to look the part as we get closer.
The operational run of the GFS continues to show rounds of cold and arctic cold shots diving into the country, with winter weather systems ushering in each…
This setup has been well telegraphed by the various teleconnection indices and I’ve shared many of those over the past few weeks. The Ensembles have been all over this and continue to have “the look”…
That’s a cold look for much of the country and the snow signal on the Ensembles is pretty healthy over the next few weeks…
Again, that’s the average of 21 different members, so don’t take numbers to be exact. Just take it as a sign of several snow opportunities coming our way.
I will have updates later today, so check back in. Have a great day and take care.
Thanks Chris, You nailed the Snowfall forecast for my county. Zero Snow, so I’m not disappointed.
Weather models anymore are for entertainment only.
Arctic air continues to plague Eastern Europe.
Healthy signal for SW Virginia,NE Tennessee and EKY.Bet there were a few big dogs in some members.
The GEFS, CMC Ensemble, and ECMWF Ensemble means all show the best signal for snow that I’ve seen in a while. I just hope the pattern actually delivers and we get a couple big snowstorms around here.
Around the sixteenth of January a piece of Arctic air is suppose to enter the US due to a split in the Polar Vortex. If this happens we will have a lot of cold wasted dry air.
Our best chances for Snow would occur in the current pattern, but these systems are weak and fast moving and are only producing in the Appalachian Mountains.