Good evening, folks. Flakes are STILL flying across areas of eastern Kentucky on a frigid evening in the bluegrass state. As we roll into the weekend, here comes a messy mix of a system targeting parts of the state late Saturday. Then we see precipitation types doing a little flip Sunday into Monday.
With a clearing sky tonight and snow on the ground, some spots may make a run at 10 degrees by Friday morning. The skies are slower to clear in the east as that northwest wind produces one more round of flakes…
As our weekend system rolls in here late Saturday, we will see rain pushing across western Kentucky and a mix/snow developing across the north and northeastern part of the state. The late day model runs are a little farther south with that mess and show a quicker transition back to snow Sunday night after a day of rain.
The overall trend of the afternoon models is for a much colder overall look to the setup for the entire weekend. The late day EURO only goes through 7am Monday, but shows all this well…
Here’s the snow map from that run just through Sunday morning…
Here’s the NAM through 1am Monday…
The snow map from the NAM is only showing the Saturday night and early Sunday morning potential…
The Short Range Canadian has a similar overall thought process with this animation through 1am Monday…
The snow map into early Sunday morning…
The GFS goes deeper into the whole event and shows the same look at the onset, then you can see the wraparound snows behind this into early next week…
The snow map through Sunday morning…
Far northern Kentucky can get in on some pretty healthy snows Saturday night. Maybe a WST?
The wraparound setup will likely put snow on the ground across central and eastern Kentucky Sunday night through Tuesday.
We will get into all that later tonight. Have a good one and take care.
