Good Saturday, folks. A developing winter storm continues to take aim at the region and is likely to bring significant snows and some ice Sunday into Sunday night.
Here’s a breakdown of what to expect:
- Light snow impacts areas of western Kentucky today and a few flakes fly into the rest of the state. The west and north can pick up light accumulations, but most of the region won’t see very much.
- Our double barrel low pressure system is a complicated one, but things are much more clear on how things play out Sunday and Sunday night.
- The lead low works into east Tennessee and may get all the way into far southeastern Kentucky before weakening and letting the big daddy low take over. That low then strengthens from the Carolinas to New England through Sunday night.
- Snow and a wintry mix expands from Tennessee into southern Kentucky later tonight and early Sunday. From there, this spreads to the north and engulfs much of central and eastern Kentucky.
- Much of the early Sunday action may be a wintry mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain before going over to snow as the day wears on.
- A band of heavy snow is likely to develop across central and eastern Kentucky. The trend on this has been focusing a bit west with each run.
- Several inches of snow will be likely Sunday and Sunday night, but this will have a very sharp cut off on the western of it. The threat for freezing rain and sleet also complicates the snow forecast.
- This will be a heavy wet snow and some areas could be looking at some power issues. Roads will also become pretty nasty once again.
- The snow tapers Sunday night, but don’t sleep on Monday as it could drop another inch or so of snow as an upper-level system moves through.
My NEW CALL FOR SNOWFALL moved everything west by a little bit and added some light accumulations of sleet and freezing rain…
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Again, I will have updates to that map through the day, so keep that in mind.
As far as what the forecast models are saying, here’s a look…
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I will have updates throughout the day on KWC and over on WKYT.COM. I leave you with your light snow tracking tools for the day…
PADUCAH
FORT CAMPBELL
BOWLING GREEN
E-TOWN
LOUISVILLE
COVINGTON AREA
Have a great day and take care.
I’m ready!
Everyone please stay safe out there
Thanks Chris, I know it’s been a trying week, but it looks like things are back to normal on KWC.
All models seem to be in line for a significant weather event.
finally able to log in to post…I was stuck in a verification loop….Chris said to reboot router…that worked.
Be interesting to see how it plays out..Just looking at some of the mesoscale models looked like some moved back East..
FINALLY!!! Lol… I can now comment. I have been trying to log in for a little over a year ever since the site got a new update. I’m looking for Richmond to get several inches. I’m not looking forward to it and I’m on board for teamspring
I’m on the same team Ray.
Dottie, I know exactly what you mean. This stuff is giving me cabin fever, lol.
im always in teamspring mode. with each passing day, seeing the daylight in the western sky hang around a bit longer makes me happy 🙂
Nothing to get excited in my world I live too far west to get any of that snow. Maybe next time
I am glad to see the site up and working again.
It looks like Louisville will not be invited to the party. Maybe we will receive a tad more than festive flakes.
Looks like more of a nuisance system for Warren County…not enough to plow, but enough to make the roads dangerous. That’s okay, we’ve had more than enough excitement around here this Winter.
when looking at the NWS map of warnings and watches……..it’s so strange to see a WSW that just stops at Lexington, with not even an advisory at all for counties beside lexington……..I mean, I know the cutoff will be sharp. Truthfully, I think they watching as it develops because they are still unsure.
Jog East..Looked like the transfer happened earlier which I assume would cause the East jog..Better for further EKY counties..
Going East again lol..Looks like the transfer happened earlier so I assume that’s causing the East jogging..Better for the further EKY counties.
My neck hurts from watching models go West,East back to West and now East
Should add at least a dozen times
It’s currently 41° in Bowling Green, and radar is showing rain showers to our south and west. Once the rain starts, adiabatic cooling might drop temps a couple of degrees, but not enough for a changeover to snow or fortunately, ice.
“Izzy” (where the hell does The Weather Channel come up with these names…) may turn out to be a bust for South Central Kentucky, which is fine by me!