Good Friday to one and all. Our frigid January rolls on across Kentucky and there isn’t much of a break on the way as this pattern remains locked in for the long haul. In addition to the cold air, we are also tracking a series of clippers starting this Sunday and going into next week.
One or two of those may develop into a much bigger system into next week.
Let’s start things out with the current cold then get to a Sunday clipper. Some areas are starting in the upper single digits with a wind chill around zero or a touch below. By the afternoon, most of us top out in the 20-25 degree range.
Saturday morning lows are when we can really see the numbers crash. A few spots can make a run at zero, especially those with snow on the ground. The GFS even shows a few of the colder spots hitting negative numbers…
B to the RR!
The Sunday clipper looks to mainly impact northern Kentucky with some light snow, but the tracks on these change often change within 24 hours. If you’re a snow lover, you want the Canadian to win out…
The American Models are farther north with this system…
The next system quickly moves in here by Monday night and Tuesday and may feature a much bigger storm. The GFS has rain to snow once again, but it looks rather muddled…
That’s actually a setup worth watching as it’s not far away from becoming much more of a phased system.
Another system will drop in behind that later in the week.
I’m starting to look ahead to February and one question jumped out at me. Can the month turn into a combination of the December pattern and the January pattern? It looks like another hyper-active month. Ugh.
I will have another update later today, so check back. Have a good one and take care.
Thanks! Get some rest Chris. ✌️
Thanks Chris, not a fan of cold, dry air with a Snow furry every other day, just runs your heating bill through the roof.
I agree we will return to the December pattern next month and that could start the severe weather season and that makes me anxious.
Thank goodness I can log in to comments again! Thanks for all you do Chris!
It’s plenty cold here in the Chicago area with temps in the low 20s after a morning low of near 5 degrees, but the little snow we had on the ground melted a few days ago, with only patches of snow remaining in shady areas.
You guys in Kentucky, particularly in the Central and Eastern parts of the state, have had probably twice the amount of snow we’ve had in the Chicago area this season! O’Hare Airport has received only a little over 6 inches so far, while the NWS Forecast Office in the SW suburbs has received just a little over 7 inches.
Hoping we can maybe surpass you guys by the time February gets here.
It’s plenty cold here in the Chicago area today, with temps in the low 20s after a morning low near 5 degrees. But what little snow we had on the ground melted a few days ago with only patchy snow remaining in shady areas.
You guys in Kentucky, particularly in the Central and Eastern parts of the state, have received probably twice the amount of snow the Chicago area has received so far this season.
I’m hoping we can catch up by the time February gets here.
Here in Maple so far in January we have an accumulation of 11.0 inches. One more inch and we will have our yearly average.
This evening we still have Snow cover with a temperature of 25 degrees under partly Sunny skies.