Good afternoon, everyone. Our snowy weekend is kicking off with two huge upper level systems dropping in from the northwest. These two will work in tandem to bring widespread rounds of light snow and snow squalls to Kentucky and surrounding states.
Our day started with that band of rain changing to snow across areas of central and eastern Kentucky. This put down slushy accumulations from the Lexington metro and east, with an inch or two in the higher mountains of the southeast.
Our early afternoon sunshine will quickly give way to rain and snow showers/squalls developing from the west by evening. This action becomes mainly snow squalls later in the evening into tonight with periods of light snow kicking in. These periods of snow squalls and light snow will then continue through Sunday and Monday.
During this time, accumulations will be likely for the entire region. Roads will go from wet to white, back to wet, back to white… You get the idea. There is absolutely zero reason for a Winter Weather Advisory not to be out for the entire area through Monday. Just put it out there and be done with it. If you’re doing it any other way, you’re doing a huge disservice to the people we are serving.
I have no changes on the First Call…
The models are still on board with what they have been showing for days…
GFS
NAM
CANADIAN
EURO
GFS Ensembles
The pattern after this will be one that presses farther south than the models have been showing. We are seeing the GFS responding to this with more of a west-east moving system by Tuesday…
I will have the latest on WKYT-TV starting at 4pm and another KWC update this evening. Until then, here are your radars to keep you company…
Have a good one and take care.
here in pikeville the day started out dark & wet until around 1030-11am. its been sunny and beautiful since. its now 330pm. its 47* on my front porch. felt good enough to go out in shorts & flip flops to get the mail 🙂 im on permanent #teamspring & #teamsummer
it’s going to be a fun weekend
Most impressive clouds this afternoon. Hope someone takes some photos.
Snow started early this afternoon. Just flurries and was a short lived event. Maybe more will follow later tonight and tomorrow ?
I’ve seen this before where I grew up in Indiana. The sky would get dark purple/ blue and the Snow Squalls were so heavy you couldn’t see more than ten feet in front. Then it would end and repeat the process all over again.
This Storm System isn’t as prolific as the one in 1965.
The last week of January sure is looking interesting.Looks like the pacific is finally wanting to cooperate.Blocking looks to hold on.Fun times ahead.Guess we’ll see.
I agree, but when a pattern looks good it always seems to fall apart for us around here.
I notice on the radar there is a lot of Snow Squall activity in Missouri and the city of Columbia pick-up around 5 inches of Snow this afternoon. The radar shows Snow over my area, but it is not reaching the ground. Virga would be my guess.
So far that so call Blocking has only given Europe and Russia a cold Snowy Winter. Unbelievable Frigid Temperatures in Siberia. One reading today showed -70 degrees F. Wow !!!