Good afternoon, folks. It’s a really nice looking day across Kentucky as the sun helps boost our temps into the 40s. We get one more nice day before a big change blows in for Friday, leading us into a very wintry weekend with rounds of light snow and cold temps.
I won’t fully rundown my thoughts from earlier, but this continues to look like rounds of light snow will put down accumulations around here. The first wave arrives late Friday and goes through Saturday with the next wave arriving Sunday and lasting into Monday.
Here’s the GFS showing both of those…
The GFS is starting to crank out some better snowfall numbers out of this…
Here’s a closer look…
Here’s the Canadian for the same time…
The EURO…
This will be followed up by another system that comes at us from the southwest a few days later. The EURO brings two lows our weather with a threatening track…
Again, this is occurring in the time we’ve been pointing toward as the beginning of a wintry pattern settling into our region and for much of the country.
I will throw you another update later this evening so check back. Have a good one and take care.
Gotta love how those snow total maps make that little “hook” around my area with bigger totals all around….LOL! I know it’s not accurate, but it’s pretty much the way it goes most times for our plCE! 🙂
“place”…
If this upper level low from the moisture starve Northwest brings that much accumulating Snow, it would be the first time here in Western and Central Kentucky ?
The European weather model looks a little better for accumulating Snow for Western and Central Kentucky, but these Southern Systems so far this Winter have been evaporating in our very dry Atmosphere.
Hopefully we will get that pattern change in place in time for the Snowiest month (February.)
Maybe the light snow maker will over performed.
I’m not buying the 3-4″ totals for this weekend in my area especially with temperatures rising above freezing during the day. I think 0.5″-1″ and maybe as much as 2″ on the high end if I get hit by a snow squall or two.
Being in South-Central Indiana you could get that amount if Dynamic Cooling comes into play with heavy precipitation. Some places could get Thunder Snow, which is always fun. I’ve only experience that phenomenon once in March 1984.
I know it’s going to snow, but unless I’m in a snow squall it’s not going to be heavy enough stick at 34°. Sunday is likely my best shot at some accumulation since it will be a couple degrees cooler.
I have never experienced thunder snow, it’s happened just a couple counties away from me several times before with December 2019 being the most recent close call, but I haven’t been lucky enough to experience it yet.
Anyone think that last EURO map has a ice signal.