Good afternoon, folks. We are coming off an absolutely frigid morning and the sun of the afternoon isn’t doing much work on our thermometers. The late week light snow system continues to look just that… Light. It’s a small part in a monster storm impacting areas of the northeast.
Before we look ahead, look back at how cold things got this morning…
It was another arctic cold morning across the state with single digit temps. Check out the top 10 coldest lows from the Kentucky Mesonet. #kywx pic.twitter.com/zpYsnVo6d4
— Chris Bailey (@Kentuckyweather) January 26, 2022
Those numbers absolutely trashed the computer forecast numbers. Arctic air is low-level and it’s dense so it tends to press farther south than the models think. That’s something to keep in mind with next week’s pattern.
In the short-term, the arctic air pressing more is also going to play a role in our Friday light snow maker. This lighter as we get closer because we are seeing how the arctic air is flexing some. That “flex” means slightly drier air and pushes the best snow chances farther south and east. Instead of this being a 1″-3″ snowfall, we are now looking at mainly a 1″ or less setup. Here are what the models look like…
Bitterly cold air with single digit lows shows back up Friday night into Saturday morning. Wind chills go below zero during that time.
I have no changes to the setup for next week as a powerhouse of a temperature gradient sets up in our region. This will fire up a significant overrunning system that can take us from heavy rain to winter weather in just a few hours…
Temps may drop 20-30 degrees in just a few hours in this kind of setup.
It’s a pretty active setup taking shape and it’s loaded with winter weather potential deep into the month. For the record… I’m on #TeamSpring .
Enjoy the evening and take care.
Thanks Chris, My low temperature in Maple was 12 degrees followed by a balmy reading of 30 degrees this late afternoon. Snow is not in my local forecast the next 10 days.
Storm tract looks to shift to the west, so we are once again in the warm sector until the cold front blows through to finish off the left over precipitation in whatever form it may take.
I’m joining # TeamSpring to, but I could do without the late devastating freezes that destroys the reproduction of the fruit and nut trees for Wildlife.
We are halfway through Winter and once again it has been so far an under performer in my area of Kentucky.
Southern/central Indiana even worse so far…. a big donut hole
Yep, my younger Sister lives in Northern Indiana and She told me on a weekly zoom call that Snow was absent this year, but it has been very cold.