Good evening, folks. Bitterly cold temps and some light snow continue to take center stage through tonight as another front blows in. As we look down the weather road, the overall pattern looks to continue the winter setup for much of the month.
Before we look ahead, here are a couple more pics that put the ice storm/winter storm into perspective…
@Kentuckyweather @AdamBurnistonWX Took a little walk around my yard just now in Northern Bath County. Trees are Cracking pretty loud. pic.twitter.com/xtxR37OdMo
— JeffSetters (@jeff_setters) February 4, 2022
A giant tree came down last night near Woodland Park in Lexington. The homeowner said no one was injured. @heraldleader pic.twitter.com/MfUJoAWOuz
— Ryan C. Hermens (@ryanhermens) February 4, 2022
A little bit of light snow is working across the region this evening and there’s another round due in town later tonight. Some minor accumulations may show up with both of those bands. Here are your radar to follow along…
Overnight lows are purely dependent on clouds verses clearing. If skies clear, temps easily reach the single digits and head toward zero. If clouds persist, we stay closer to 10 degrees. Heck of a bargain, huh?
Better weather blows in for the weekend with temps slowly coming up on Sunday. There’s another system dropping in on Monday and it may bring a snow shower or flurry with it, but it’s not a big deal.
The next system looks to arrive by Thursday with our next chance for light snow…
That may be followed up by a clipper a day or two later…
Later into the weekend, the GFS is trying to pop a more important system…
With a lot of energy dropping in from the northwest, each system will have to be watched to see if one or two can develop into a much bigger storm. This is essentially a continuation of the pattern we’ve been tracking since early January.
If we look at the Ensembles from February 10-20 shows the colder than normal pattern rolling on…
Enjoy the evening and take care.
Thanks Chris, You did great work forecasting this recent bout with Winter. I believe you were the first to call for “harsh Winter weather” a week before it actually became reality.
We ended up with an inch of Snow here in Maple. The hardwood trees were not harmed by the quarter of an inch of Ice, but the Pines are bent and not broken. Lucky this time around.
I had enough Winter and ready for Summer. I don’t like the Spring months because of high Tornado potential.
It’s crazy how we were winterless Nov/Dec……..and as soon as the new year hit…this pattern started. Like mother nature was waiting for the new year to flip the pattern.
Marklex, I don’t know if you was around back in the late 70″ s winters . 77,78,79 provide me as a teenager that won’t forget. It brought brutal cold that lasted for days and snowest winters we had and not only the infamous January 78 blizzard that cripple the whole state and up the eastern united states. Nothing has compare those winters since then. Schroeder knows what I’m talking about.
My bold prediction is a 70-plus high in February.