Good Thursday, gang. We have a fast-moving system zipping across southern and southeastern Kentucky, bringing a touch of light rain and light snow with it. Once this moves through, we calm it down a few before the overall pattern ramps up. Two big storm systems are on the way in the week ahead of us with the first arriving as early as late Sunday.
The action out there this morning is light and rolls through very quickly. This could leave behind a little wet snow on the ground in far southeastern Kentucky before it pulls out of the Commonwealth. Here are your radars to see what’s cooking…
Skies try to brighten up as the day wears on with temps going from the upper 30s to middle 40s for many. Another weak front drops in here tonight and early Friday with very little fanfare. This will bring seasonable cold with it for Friday and Saturday as skies stay partly sunny. Wind chills are down there, but nothing out of the ordinary for this time of year.
A series of storm systems will then target the region with the first arriving late Sunday and taking us into early next week. A potent low pressure looks to work right on top of us by Monday and looks to bring a lot of active weather with it. Depending on the exact track of the low, heavy rain, thunderstorms, gusty winds and some winter weather will all be possible. This will be followed up by another system a few days later that has a better winter weather look.
The current look of the models shows the first system having a little better winter look across the northern half of the state. Here’s a look at that one and the storm behind it…
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EURO
Updates later today. Enjoy this fine Thursday and take care.
All 3 model runs do not show much support for snow.
The GFS is the most depressing because it has the low traveling across Tn. and still it isn’t cold enough to support snow here in Ky.
Got about an inch of very wet snow on the ground here this morning.
I couldn’t care less about the snow….already had my fill, just looking for the rain to disappear. As usual, I’m completely sick of it.
pretty disappointing runs, across all models.. ugh.
This is from a site ran by Dr. Judah Cohen.Across North America, ridging/positive geopotential height anomalies across Greenland and in the Gulf of Alaska will help to develop troughing/negative geopotential height anomalies across Canada. However, as the whole pattern retrogrades west, the troughing will be increasingly focused across western North America. Currently widespread normal to above normal temperatures cover Canada and the United States (US), however over the next two weeks normal to below normal temperatures will build across Western Canada and the Western US with normal to above normal temperatures in Eastern Canada and the Eastern US.
In the Impacts section I discuss the possible influence from the ongoing and complex polar vortex (PV) disruption on the weather across the Northern Hemisphere (NH).