Good Thursday everyone. We are rolling toward the final weekend of January and old man winter is showing no signs of letting up as we head into February. This has been a wild and wooly winter for much of the country and that certainly holds true for the bluegrass state.

There will be little rest as the pattern is going to throw some snow at us again later tonight and Friday and has that  “look” again for the first half of next week. More on that in a bit.

Our short term weather will find some leftover batches of very light snow and flurries across parts of the area today… especially early. Highs will range from the low 30s east to high 30s to near 40 west.

A fast moving clipper will be diving southeastward into the Ohio Valley tonight into Friday and will bring a swath of light accumulating snows with it. The best chance for up to an inch or so of snow will be across northern and eastern Kentucky just in time for the Friday morning commute. Under an inch of accumulation will be possible all the way into central parts of the state.

The GFS seems to have a nice handle on the clipper snows…


Another clipper or two will follow this one up into the coming weekend. The next one arrives on the scene Saturday and should take a track a bit farther north than the one tonight.

GFS Ensembles Saturday Morning


That may have enough juice for a burst of some light snow and flurries in the north and some sprinkles in the south and southwest. There may be a third system diving into the region late Sunday, though I’m not sold on that one yet.

That brings us to next week and what is likely to be another winter storm for the eastern half of the country and more forecasting headaches around here. If one looks at the models… you see they have a similar look to the storm we just had…

GFS Ensembles Tuesday Evening



Canadian Model


While the “model look” may be the same… the overall pattern is vastly different as an arctic outbreak is diving southward into whatever storm should form. Where that low goes, how strong it gets and what kind of precipitation it will bring us remains to be seen. I am simply pointing out that another storm will try to form next week and impact the weather around here. This is actually a time frame we highlighted for a storm several days ago. As always… we shall see.

I will have more updates later today so check back. Until then… take care.