Good Saturday to one and all. It’s a rather damp and dreary day for many across the region, but things look to improve for Halloween. That nice weather won’t last very long as November looks to start out on a very cold note with the potential for a touch of winter showing up before the first week of the new month is over.
Showers continue today with the greatest concentration across central and eastern Kentucky. Those showers will start to become more scattered during the evening, but things continue to look damp with temps staying 50-55 for most of the day. Here are your radars to following along…
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Clouds are going to linger into Halloween and things may even be a little bit damp early on across central and eastern Kentucky. Temps generally hang in the 50s where the clouds linger and hit the low 60s in the west.
This brings us to start of November and a very cold pattern taking shape. The question is whether or not parts of our region can see the first flakes of the season. A lot of different factors still have questions and we are now into the time where models waffle from run to run.
The EURO continues to be the steadiest model, but the new run is pretty amped up with this system…
Well, that would certainly be an interesting system IF things play out like that run of the EURO.
The latest Canadian run handles things completely different than the prior run, but still manages to bring some flakes to our region…
The GFS had the system for several days then lost it for the past few days. The latest run tries to find it again…
The GFS Ensembles are showing the flake potential…
If we take a look at the EURO Ensembles we find the average of the 51 members picking up on the flake chances around here for the next few weeks…
The latest EURO Weeklies are out and go through December 12th. Here’s the average snowfall during this time…
That’s a pretty healthy signal considering it’s the average of 51 members.
Snow lovers would lock up up the control run of the Euro Ensembles right now…
Once again, we have to point out those are a snapshot of a seasonal model so take that with a giant block of salt. Of course, most of my weather folks know this is to only look at trends.
I will have another update later today. Make it a good one and take care.
Well that should get the blog hopping! 🙂
All of the snow players are on the field now it is all about execution.
Looking forward to see how this winter unfolds. It’s been 44 years since our infamous blizzard that we had January of 1978 and were are due for some harsh winters that we had back in the late 70’s. I know some of you young folks wasn’t around but perhaps your grandfather or mother could tel you the brutal winters we had back then.
I’m hoping for more cold blasts similar to last February where we had three snows in about ten days. There was no question it was going to be snow (vs the usual sleet, rain, frz rain scenarios) — the only question was HOW MUCH SNOW!! More of that please!!
It was amazing how fast that blizzard developed that Wednesday evening in January 1978. I was living and working in Vanderburgh county, Indiana.
The next morning there was a twenty foot Snowdrift (estimating) in our driveway and the temperature was several degrees below zero. I called a friend who had farm equipment and he came right over and cleared the driveway. It was the largest mound of Snow I had ever seen when he finished.
It seems like Snowstorms here in central Kentucky are extremely rare. I’ve only seen two major Snowstorms and one memorable Ice Storm in the last fourteen years.
My last major Snow event was in 2004 when twenty two inches fell in two separate Snow events on the twenty third of December. It was a beautiful White Christmas and everyone made it home.