Good Monday, everyone. A weak system grazed the state with some light snow over the weekend and we have another one dropping into the area tonight and early Tuesday. This brings a touch of light rain and light snow with it, and it brings another blast of arctic air for the remainder of the week.
Today is a windy day as temps reach the upper 30s to upper 40s ahead of our cold front. Clouds will thicken with a band of light rain and light snow dropping in tonight into early Tuesday. This doesn’t have a lot of juice with it, so don’t expect a whole lot. Here are your radars to follow along…
Temps behind this stay in the 20s for highs on Tuesday and it looks like another round of single digit lows by Wednesday morning. Wind chills may be near zero or a bit below to start the day. Actual highs Wednesday stay generally 20-25 with a wind chill in the teens.
The next system for the end of the week remains a bit of a mystery. We have the potential for energy to drop in from the northwest and merge with a system rolling out of the south. If those two get together, we are dealing with a big time eastern US winter storm. If they don’t hook up, then we get in on a little light snow and another shot of arctic air.
The Canadian Model continues to be the most aggressive with the merger into a bigger storm…
As I’ve been telling you for several days now, the operational models are going to have some major issues in handling any potential phasing. You’re likely to see some wild swings showing up with this system, but it bears watching.
The overall temperature trend for the final week of January continues to run MUCH colder than normal…
February is likely a colder than normal month, but it shouldn’t be as cold as our January. I expect the month to have some wilder temp swings with an active storm track through our region. That puts us in the line of fire of a lot of precipitation with both ample amounts of rain and snow a good bet.
I will touch more on that later today and will even take a look toward spring.
Have a great day and take care.
Ample cold air,but nothing to show for it.
Right. It’s looking more and more like it’s RIP snow in WKY
Russell, maybe an inch or two of Snow for WKY and for my area of Maple. Could be more you never know.
Forgot the GFS says around the seventh of February for the Snow in our area.
Thanks Chris, Hope the temperatures stay on the below normal side through April ?
The GFS is beginning to see phasing taking place over the next 10 days, but it will be well east of the Ohio Valley. At this time the closes Snow Cover to Kentucky is in the Mountains of West Virginia where up to 17 inches are recorded.
So far this Winter, I have recorded 11.0 inches of Snow, which is more than we received last year at this time. May I receive another inch of Snow to bring it up to the yearly average of 12 inches ?
When you think about 12 inches as being the yearly average, that would be considered a non-snow area compared to the lee shores of Lake Michigan. LOL
The weekend system looks like a possible Southeastern Kentucky thumper with the rest of the state missing out unless we get further inland track of the low.
The GFS has that Weekend Snowstorm phasing a little too far east off the Atlantic shore, but gives the far Northeast a Big Time Snowstorm for the twenty ninth and thirty of January. The model shows East Kentucky receiving around two inches of Snow.