Good Wednesday to one and all. It’s another shot of arctic cold that’s taken control of our mid-week weather, but the focus is on another light snow maker rolling in here over the next few days. This will likely put down just enough snow to cause travel issues by Friday and Friday night.
Temps to start this Wednesday are in the 10-15 degree range for many with a wind chill a few degrees on either side of zero. Even with some sun today, temps struggle into the low and middle 20s.
Thursday starts in similar fashion as clouds roll in during the afternoon and evening. Those clouds are ahead of a system dropping in here from the northwest. This will bring light snow to much of the region starting Thursday night and lasting through Friday with snow showers coming in behind that Friday night and Saturday morning. This isn’t a big system, but these are usually good for a 1″-3″ for parts of central and eastern Kentucky.
This same system will then merge with a system off the Mid-Atlantic and turn into a monster storm up the east coast. That may shutdown several states.
As far as what the models are showing for our region, let’s take a look at their latest scenarios…
Bitterly cold air comes in behind this and we may be back in the single digits for lows this weekend.
I have no changes to my thoughts on next week. Temps are set to spike for a few days and this will set up one major temp gradient across the country…
All of that comes crashing down very quickly just a day or two later…
Typically, these types of gradients are accompanied by big overrunning systems and some of the operational models are keying in on this possibility…
A big temp gradient could put a lot of precipitation options on the table, so let’s watch that setup closely.
I will have another update later today. Until then, have a good one and take care.
This is the day we had the worse and personally the costliest ICE STORM I have ever experienced.
The Event occurred on this day in 2009.
https://www.weather.gov/lmk/jan_2009_ice_and_snow
This same week, the only Blizzard I’ve ever experience occurred in 1978.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blizzard_of_1978
Twenty foot high SNOWDRIFT in my driveway with temperatures well below zero and that’s not including that ridiculous “wind chill” reading.
Yep I remember that Schroeder as a teenager never forget it.
Here’s hope for an end to the Snow drought in Western Kentucky. On the ninth of February, the GFS is forecasting a Major Snowstorm ( 18 inches +. ) with temperatures below zero. Long way off, but it’s something that’s finally showing up for all the Snow Lovers in that area of the state.
Schroder, if that happens the dome will finally be blown off. LOL. That’s an interesting forecast time will tell.
This site showing the forecast for the Snowstorm on the ninth of February 2022 :
https://www.ventusky.com/?p=35.6;-90.5;4&l=snow&t=20220209/0600
Yep, even though the temperature up here dropped down to 5 degrees it is sunny, dry and quiet.
Next week when we go above 50 things will change.
No pink! NO pink~ NO PINK!!!
This was our coldest morning of the winter, with low temperatures ranging from -5 degrees at O’Hare Airport to -8 degrees at the NWS Forecast Office in the SW suburbs to -20 degrees at a regional airport in a low-lying area 60 miles west of Chicago.
Wind chills ranged from -20 to -30 degrees.
It’s been a long time since I experience – 20 degrees. Had to be back in the late 1970’s when we had a real Winter here in the Ohio Valley. Stay warm Mike and I hope you receive enough Snow to shovel.
Definitely have to bundle up in layers when going outside! I was busy shoveling Sunday and Monday mornings from the Canadian Clippers that deposited two inches of snow each morning. We have a solid four inches of snow on the ground which is helping to enhance the cold temps.
There’s no measurable snow in the forecast here for the next several days, but things could get interesting later next week.
The GFS has canceled the Snowstorm that was earlier forecast for our area on the ninth of February.
You just watch we WILL get that damned ICE STORM. UGH !!!
The GFS on the latest run canceled the Big Time Snowstorm that was forecast on the ninth of February.
You just watch we WILL get that darn ICE STORM. UGH !!!
Will this La Nina ever END !!!