Good afternoon, everyone. A wintry mess started the day across many areas of the region, now we focus our attention on the heavy rain rolling in later tonight through Monday night. This is a system that can dump a lot of rain around here and cause high water issues. This will be followed up by an increasing snow threat later Wednesday and Thursday.
This morning’s mess was a mix of freezing rain, sleet and some snow across the northern half of the state. I was struck by this tweet from the NWS in Wilmington, Ohio who is in charge of northern Kentucky…
[11:20 AM] We found winter. Or… should we say… winter found us. Although the snow and freezing rain won't amount to much, area roadways are slick and there have been a number of accidents in the Tri-State area this morning. Take it SLOW out there today! pic.twitter.com/id5bM9NONU
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) January 24, 2021
If only we had a taxpayer funded federal agency to alert the public via Advisories, Watches or Warnings. 🤷♂️
Now comes the heavy rain and thunderstorm action tonight through Monday night. I have no changes on my rain forecast…
The model forecasts continue to have my back…
GFS
CANADIAN
SHORT RANGE CANADIAN
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EURO
Some of this action comes from thunderstorms. Check out the lightning forecast from the EURO…
Some of these storms may pack high winds, too. The Storm Prediction Center has parts of the state in a low-end severe weather risk…
The next system takes low pressure farther south and southeast allowing colder air across Kentucky. This likely creates a fairly large swath of accumulating snow Wednesday afternoon through Thursday morning…
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GFS
EURO
There is an increasing potential for this system to put snow on the ground and it may be enough for our first Winter Storm Threat since the Christmas storm, although the EURO isn’t impressed.
I will have another update later today. Until then, here are your radars to follow the switch to rain..
Enjoy the rest of the day and take care.
T-Minus 3 days and counting.
The cold air giveth and the warm air taketh away.
did you know the NWS changed the criteria for the for advisories watches and warnings for winter weather
Bring it, there was no Christmas threat here in my part of the world in Western ky. Hopefully we will get this threat if the models are right.
It’s the calm before the big snowstorm here in the Chicago area this afternoon. The snow is about 24 hours away, but it’s a rather pleasant day today with the sun trying to break out and temps in the mid 30s with little to no wind.
There was a dusting of light snow early this morning across the area, but the little bit that fell all melted.
I’m watching the NFC Championship Game from Green Bay, and was hoping to see it snowing there. Football is always fun to watch in the snow, but it’s a sunny day in the upper 20s off the shores of Lake Winnebago.
Eastern Kentucky I guess is the place to be this winter. It looks like another pathetic snow event in south-central Indiana with maybe an inch on Wednesday unless something changes and with the feature south of the Hudson Bay that’s moving southeast it is unlikely it moves north much more. Enjoy the snow! Hopefully, the snow lovers in central and western Kentucky get a pretty good hit as well.
We were suppose to get Heavy Rains today according to last evenings Forecast, but in reality we received only 0.04 inches of Rain from this first fast moving system.
Maybe tomorrow system will deliver a better chance of rain. I don’t think there will be any severe weather and it’s been a long time since we had a thunderstorm.
I don’t expect any accumulating Snows in my area of Central Kentucky. Areas to the North and East may pick up some decent Snows especially the mountains of Eastern West Virginia.