Good Saturday and Happy New Year, everyone. The brand new year is off and running with severe storms and flooding for much of the bluegrass state. This threat takes us through the rest of the day with a lot of issues a good bet.
I wanted to drop by for a fresh blog to streamline all your tracking tools for the day.
Here are a few fresh thoughts:
- Strong to severe storms are rumbling across the southern half of the state early today. Damaging winds and a few tornadoes are possible.
- Another round of strong to severe storms will be possible later in the day as our storm system works through. Once again, damaging winds and a few quick spin ups are possible. That’s especially true across the southern half of Kentucky.
- I’m very concerned about the setup for significant flash flooding and general flooding. Many areas pick up a general 2″-4″ through this evening, but some streaks of 4″+ will show up. Those are the areas where big problems may occur.
- If you live in a low-lying or flood prone area, please remain alert to the rapidly changing conditions.
The Storm Prediction Center continues with the Slight to Enhanced Risk for severe weather across our region today…
I will have updates as needed through the day. I will also have the continuing coverage as needed on WKYT-TV.
As usual, I have you all set to track the severe weather. Our exclusive interactive radar also features live storm chaser video streams, so be sure to check that out…
Current watches
Possible Watch Areas
Have a great and safe New Year’s Day and take care.
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Thanks Chris, best wishes to you and your Family in the New Year 2022. Woke up to heavy rain and a tornado watch. This is the first and I hope the last time this weather type will occur on New Years Day in my lifetime ?
I’m hoping the colder and more drier weather will last more than a few days this coming week ?
On this mornings US weather map, the closes Snowstorm is in Northern Illinois. I looked for any chance for accumulating Snow in my area and came up with nothing through the 15th.
Have a great New Years Day everyone and stay safe !
I can’t recall ever being awakened at 7:30am on January 1st by the sound of thunder, wind, and torrential rain, but that’s what happened this morning. We’ve had tremendous rain already here in Perry County, and there is much more on the way. I’m very worried that the flooding will be massive. Plus we have a slight tornado risk later today. It’s nearly 70 degrees already.
It’s -24 this morning in Fargo, ND., just for reference.
I am praying that we all stay safe on this New Year’s Day, and that the damage is minimal.
Happy New Year to one and all. Chris, thank you for all you do to keep us safe. You are a blessing.
Winter Storm Warnings until midnight this evening have been issued for Northern IL, generally along and north of Interstate 80. Four to eight inches of snow is predicted, with most areas in the lower end of those numbers.
The snow is spreading from the SW to NE, and most of the Chicago area should be seeing snow by the noon hour. We’ll see how heavy the snow is and how much eventually falls.
Temps are really going to crash, with lows predicted to be below zero Sunday night/Monday morning.
Mike, when the Snowstorm is over, please post your Snow total.
A very soggy day to start the new year. Shame the cold air won’t catch up with the moisture we got. Oh well there’s still time for snow this winter.. Happy New Year!!
Yeah, your right “we still have a lot of time to received that “big time Snowstorm.” On the last run, around the 10th the GFS has the whole state of Kentucky in various amounts of accumulation.
Around the 6-7 starting to look like maybe our first shot at snow..Hope the link works..Never tried to link a weatherbell map before.GFS also hinting at same timeline.
https://images.weatherbell.com/model/ecmwf-ensemble-avg/namer/z500_anom/1640995200/1641513600-pnJa6ePN5sM.png
The link won’t come up on my computer, but I think it’s on my end. All my weather sites are slow to load including KWC. It’s probably my server. The rural service here is poor. They need to upgrade and join the 21 Century.
I can’t remember ever being awakened by thunder and torrential rains at 7:30am on January 1st. Now it’s sunny and 73 degrees here in Perry County, and the afternoon and evening sure feel ominous.
Happy New Year to all here at KWC. Chris, thank you for all you do to keep us safe. We are grateful.
I’m 70 years old and I can’t remember weather like this on New Years Day.
It certainly is strange. My weather station is reading 75 degrees and rising outside now, with dropping pressure. I can’t help but feel like this isn’t going to end well this evening.
Daffodils are out of the ground. My roses are budding out. I have a parsley plant in the ground still sending new shoots up. On January 1st.
Bless you, Schroeder, and a Happy 2022 to you.
A tornado watch was just issued for Perry, Knott, Breathitt, and Letcher Counties through 8p. Getting more uncomfortable with each passing update.
I will definitely be glad when this weird storm system is out of here. I’ve been nervous all day as I witness a perfect funnel cloud this morning before the warm front moved north. It dissipated before it touchdown fortunately. I think these hills around me might have had something to do with that ?
Plants are being fooled and are breaking dormancy. Hopefully, we will have more days and nights that resemble Winter rather than Spring down the old weather road.
Have a Happy 2022 and may God Bless.
Snow of varying intensity is falling over Northern and Central IL, Eastern IA, Southern WI, and NW IN. As of 3 PM local time, here in the SW suburbs of Chicago, we have received about an inch of snow. The snow is starting to pick up in intensity now, and with the temperature at 29 degrees, is starting to stick to the pavement, and should accumulate more efficiently in the coming hours.
That’s the kind of weather one would expect on New Year’s Day rather than flooding Rains and Tornado threats. Mike, looks like on the Radar your area of Illinois may accumulate quite a bit of Snow.
The Snow forecast looks like maybe a train of Snowstorms may keep that Snow on the ground for a long while. Glad Winter is still alive in a lot of areas to our north and west.