Good Thursday, everyone. Our healthy snow maker continues to pull away from the state leaving behind a large swath of 1″-4″ snows in much of the state and region. Frigid wind chills are following the snow as we start to focus on another storm system moving in for the weekend. This one has a little bit of everything to throw at our part of the world.
Before looking ahead, let’s review the system we just had. The overall forecast worked out very well with several areas pushing 4″ of snow…
This is from Lexington…
A decent snowfall here on leestown @Kentuckyweather @JimWKYT @WKYT pic.twitter.com/4gCEmq2iMK
— Jarrod Keltner (@JKelt) January 28, 2021
Jackson County representing…
https://twitter.com/jchsweather/status/1354648900389523457?s=20
A few flurries and snow showers continue early this morning across the east. Here’s your regional radar to say goodbye to them…
Roads will still be slick and a few remain snow covered early today, so be careful if you’re out driving. With some sunshine coming today, we will see one heck of a snow glare so keep those shades handy. 😎
Nice and cold weather continues through Friday.
Our next system continues to look the part of a thumper snow/mix system on the leading edge of it Saturday evening and Saturday night, especially across the north and northeast. Rain then takes over areawide into Sunday, then we make the transition over to light snow, snow showers and squalls from Sunday night through Tuesday.
Let’s focus on this front end potential before getting to the wraparound action. The signal is very consistent for snow and a wintry mix across areas of northern Kentucky into some of northeastern Kentucky. Folks around the Covington/Cincy region and north have a legit shot as significant snows for several hours.
The EURO has been on this for days and the new run continues to be on it…
That run actually shows the snow potential a little farther south to start. The Canadian Model has also been sniffing out the same potential…
The Short Range Canadian is in line…
The American models are also beginning to see this…
NAM
GFS
You can see how the rain takes over from southwest to northeast early Sunday as low pressure works into the region. This low then gives way to a monster storm along the eastern seaboard. This puts our region in a setup prime for snows, especially across central and eastern Kentucky…
GFS
EURO
Canadian
Setups like that can produce some decent snow amounts that can really add up, especially in the mountains.
I’ll see you guys with my normal updates later today. Have a good one and take care.
Here 8n South Central Warren County, we ended up with barest trace of snow…as usual.
I’m ready for Spring
Slightly over an inch of Snow in North Taylor County.
You don’t need much more than an inch of the fluffy Snow to make it pretty.
Good forecasting Chris on the states Snow amounts.
Not even a dusting last night. I expect Sun/Mon will be the same and hoping that will be the outcome.
Nothing here in McCreary…..waiting on a good one !!!!
Looks like the snow coming this weekend could be a big Noreaster for The New England states.
I received 2.4″ of snow here in south Central Indiana, some places saw 4-6″ yesterday that were a couple counties south of me. It sure was nice to finally get a decent snow and I’m up to 6.9″ on the season.
The weekend system is starting to look like mostly a rain event for me, it’s going to be the usual where I get screwed over because I’m south of I-70 and if I were north I would get 5-10″. I guess my streak without a 5″ or bigger snow will continue even longer.
I received 2.4″ of snow yesterday here in south-central Indiana bringing my season total up to 6.9″. A couple counties south of me 4-6″ seemed to be fairly common.
This weekend system looks like mostly a rain event for me, once again it will be heavy snow north of I-70 and basically nothing south. You have to love when just 30 miles north of you they constantly get big snowstorms every single year, but you can’t get in on a single one. Assuming nothing changes my streak without a 5 inch or bigger snow looks like it will last a little longer, it’s crazy to think it’s getting close to 6 years now.
We got a nice 2” snowfall in my area of Carter County!
BG has consistently received nothing for a really long time. And I am really not a snow lover, but it is really bothering me that we just keep missing out!! haha! It’s almost like we are in an entire different state down here…that requires an entire different forcast lol
Looks like we are the fence for the bigger snow action. No ice is a win though.