Good Wednesday evening everyone. The wicked winds of today are now a thing of the past as the cold air and snow showers made a return visit to the state. As we look into the future… we see another very wintry period taking shape that should carry us into the middle of the month.
The action will kick off with a fast moving low pressure riding northeastward out of the Gulf of Mexico Friday and Saturday. There are still some question marks with this system as we have a kicker diving in from the northwest that will try its best to push the low a bit farther east and keep it from really amplifying very much. Still… clouds should increase quickly on Friday and some rain and snow will break out from south to north by late afternoon into the evening with light snow taking over Friday night into Saturday morning.
Determining who has the best chance to pick up a few inches of snow will be all about how far west the quick hitting precip shield can get.
The NAM is pretty aggressive with the precip…
Some of the other models are not as aggressive and are a bit farther east with this storm…
GFS Ensembles Saturday Morning
I will put out a first call map out later tonight for this likely light snowfall.
This will should kick off another very wintry period for the next few weeks. Super Bowl Sunday will see a weak disturbance dropping in from the northwest with some light snow or flurries before some bigger action early next week.
This will be on the leading edge of a huge shot of arctic air diving into much of the central and eastern half of the country. There is likely to be a storm along the front as it slides in here by Tuesday and Wednesday and this a great shot at being a decent snow maker for our part of the world.
Canadian Model
Reenforcing shots of arctic air would then filter end for the second half of next week and will threaten to bring us the coldest air of the winter.
The usual full update comes your way late tonight so check back. Have a great evening and take care.
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well..heres for cold and snow..i would love for it to stay that way till middle of march…then go ahead and turn to the 70s…but until then i dont want 40s and rain..please let it be 20s and 30s with plenty of snow for cky
Just to keep things interesting, there are now Winter Storm Watches and Winter Weather advisories out for the gulf coast from Corpus Christi, to New Orleans and eastward to Mobile Bay!
Looks interesting!!!! Haven’t said that any this year. Once again we will have to wait out the waffles of the models…THINK SNOW…THINK SNOW…THINK SNOW……Taking my shots of Turkey for Ground Hog Day…Anyone care to join me????
Geez,If ky doese’nt get a Blizzard soon some people on this blog are gonna snap.Hope it snows 2 feet,2 inch ice accumlations an 50 mph winds,just bring it all baby.A storm nobody has seen in a 100 yrs..
lincoln,dont let what some people say discourage you.I for one will visit your site everyday.For the ones that dont know what im talking about just reread CB last update.
I’ve got my glass of Blantons, cheers! Oh yeah, SNOW!
NAM on Saturday morning looks pretty good for me.
The winter lovers that frequent this site keep hanging on for snow and I am no different….long live the snow lovers lol!! Anyway, glad there are more prospects and can’t wait to get more info on the coming systems. Lincoln, I wanted to also say I enjoy your site and thank you for the knowledge you provide to the snow worshippers on here….we think you rock….you are not the legend….but you rock and are on the right track 🙂
If we could just get one good 6+ incher before all is said and done I will be at peace. lol. Then, birds can start chirping and green grass can start appearing!
I’ve got a glass of Blantons, so Cheers to you, the groundhog, and to all the snow lovers!
I am not getting excited about any model until all of them are in near agreement but appears the nam is still aggressive with the moisture. Maybe Lou. & lex. can still pick up a couple inches out of this. CELEBRATE!
00Z NAM is coming in with even more precip. than the 18Z run. I really like the look of it..you can see the secondary low reflection in the 850 temps. and that’s why it’s showing more QPF for western/central KY. Can we keep temps. down enough for all snow?? That’s the question.
OOOOOh, here we go again! looks like its gonna be a fun few days! Everybody ready….? Get set…… GO!!!!!!!!!!!
And did everyone go to RIDDLESWEATHER.COM today? 😉
(luv ya lincoln 😀 )
Accuweather is showing 3-6″ of snow for Friday night for SEKY and EKY.
Lol… uh oh… if it’s “here we go again”, it’s gonna be more like, “Get set… don’t snow!” And we don’t want that!! 😛
PS — Agreed! Love Lincoln’s site — he is from Lexington so he focuses a lot of CKY. I LOVE Chris and wouldn’t stop coming here for anything… but it’s nice to have another site (or two or three — big ups to Larkin and others here too!) who offer different perspectives and other fun materials.
Lincoln has posted his link several times in the past couple of days because he was showing some really cool footage of the blizzard in OK. Nothing wrong with that at all! A lot of people just come here to find out what CB has to say, or to find out about KY. That’s fine… but there are also a lot of people who just love the weather in general and can really appreciate things like that footage yesterday.
So I for one hope Lincoln keeps up his awesome work!
Riddle and Fiddle is awesome guys!
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One of these next few storms has got to get us over 4 inches here in central Kentucky. Anxious to see what the late night models say…
yup main snow band from bowling green to lexington with some rain in the east changing to snow. 1-3 a good bet based on NAM,SREF and GFS qpf amounts.
As long as central KY is not in the plus 3″ area, it is at least believable 😉