Good afternoon, weather weenies. Our light snow maker continues to work across far southeastern Kentucky as we start to focus more on the cold front dropping in later in the week. This front unleashes a colder pattern and is likely to bring some snow into the region behind it for the weekend.
As far as today’s system is concerned, light accumulations are showing up in parts of the southeast and there’s a little more light snow to go through this afternoon. A separate area of light snow may even skim far southern Kentucky. Here are your radars…
The pattern beyond this features a strong cold front working in here by Friday. This brings much colder weather into the region with an upper level system bringing periods of light snow for the weekend…
GFS
CANADIAN
EURO
After this, we have to watch for the potential of a southern stream storm system. The signal is still there, but I don’t think any model is handling this energy correctly. If we just focus on the EURO, we can see the storm system, but the model is so slow ejecting the energy out of the southwest that it misses the connecting flight with the next trough digging in here…
I will try to send out an evening update, so check back.
Have a great rest of your Monday and take care.
Local Met’s just dismissing ANYTHING even semi-wintry in the next 10 days with high’s in the upper 40’s and slight rain chance early next week. As usual, “WHOOP-DEE-DOOO!!!” I would still like to KNOW how some Met’s “see” a chance of snow and mention it in their forecast, then the next Met (same station) see’s something completely opposite in their wx segment in the same dang HOUR??????!!! GEEZ!
That’s why I watch Chris. I’m not sucking up, btw. He seems to nail it pretty well, even for those of us just west of his forecast area! 🙂
Chris I hope you’re right about the system around the 20th because right now it doesn’t look too good for snow lovers like myself.
Thanks Chris for the afternoon update. Looks like Thursday is the pick day for some early Spring weather.
Hope we get a Snowstorm with the next wave of cold air.
Clippers to the North of me and a non-storm jet stream to the south of me.
It all adds up to another dull January.
Am I missing something (probably), or is the sustained blocking for mid January and onward not happening? Wondering if like the previous years where the models suggested it, but kept drifting into March and spring. We’ve seen that more times than not. As long as ice is not an issue, that would seem okay.
BubbaG….I completely agree!!!