Good evening gang. The winter storm has arrived here in Kentucky and the colder scenario appears to be working out. Moderate to heavy bands of snow have developed across central, western and northern parts of the state.
This is going to be a nowcasting storm in which we fine tune snow totals on an hourly basis as we see where the magical rain/snow line sets up.
This is where you come in handy. Help us out by posting how the weather is playing out where you live. You can also tweet me information or pics: @kentuckyweather.
Thanks a bunch and take care.
Sleet/light snow – North Mercer County
34.1 in Lawrenceburg with all snow now at 2020
I will add, I see the great big dry slot headed for the Lexington Metro. The dome is alive and well!
Moderate snow SE Lexington.
Sticking to the deck.
Sure wish the temps would drop…. wasting this snow that is falling in Louisville. Coming down at a decent clip, but above freezing and not sticking.
Big ole wet flakes at Tates creek area around manowar. Ground seems to be too warm to stick right now….Just drove in from Frankfort and the snowfall was pretty steady but no accumulation yet…
big flakes starting to mix in on the Fayette Co side of the river. hey Bubba, what are you getting? you can come play in my yard if I get snow and you don’t.
We have a mix right now. Some rain, sleet and snow. Moderately falling at the moment.
Correction. Just let the dog out real quick and mainly rain with some sleet.
Across the river at BTrace….sleet and occasional flake, or two!
Big flakes mixing with rain around Palomar in Lex
I live half way between Richmond, and Berea off US 25. Snowing here now with huge flakes!
Starting snowing in Owenton around 5 minutes ago. The more the merrier. 33 degrees right now
Snow and ICE in Berea
Just started snowing big flakes in E Fayette, E of I-75
Sleeting at a good clip in Eastern Powell County in the Natural Bridge area!
37 degrees and dry in Flatwoods
It must be upper central Kentucky ATM, since north Madison has a mix and not all snow. Yet……….
Not seeing any ice, probably due to the surface being above freezing. Nothin’ sticking. Yet………
Snow is gone ATM and rain/sleet mix. About 70% rain.
agree here at BTrace….
36.9 degrees and sleeting in southern Pike County.
Huge fluffy flakes flying in Clays Mill area of Lex
32.6 degrees and snowing steady and sticking here in Floyds Knobs, Indiana. We are just across the river from Louisville!!
EVERYTHING TURNING WHITE!!!! YIIIPPPPPPEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
And yes, I’m shouting!
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Mehhhhh.
make that sound wetter, please…
Pttttthhhhhhhh!!
but now it’s getting like the Klump’s out there!
The line must be set up between Jessamine and Fayette. A depressing cold rain with the odd flake mixed in in Wilmore…36 degrees… 🙁
Had cold rain now we have nothing just like the other “winter storms”
whats the name of this monster?
Nerlens. All hype and no game. Oh you meant the snowstorm. Same thing.
You spelled “Gorgui” wrong.
Should be a good game.
Hamburg/Andover Hill area switching back to light rain w/some light flakes.
Yep, sure enough. I’m just down Todds rd. From you.
Mostly rain with a wet snowflake or two mixed in here in Lawrenceburg as of 8:30 🙁
Currently misting outside in Taylorsville…liquid precip at this time. Not quite freezing yet.
37 deg and nothing here yet!
41 and light rain/mist in SW Breathitt.
Currently 36 degrees in the Highlands area of Louisville. We’ve got a mix of rain, snow and ice falling. Howver, nothing is sticking yet.
Big flakes pouring down in eastern Bourbon County.
Snowing pretty hard in Lexington. I’d imagine roads will get bad tonight.
Slush and 41 degrees in Morgan County at 9:00pm…..need a new thermometer…..has been stuck on 41 degrees for last 10 hours!
Frankfort 32.9 very light snow, dry slot coming in. I see where it is snowing heavy northwest of Indianapolis, they don’t have any kind of advisory their, is the moisture moving farther north?? Chris?
Snowing big flakes south of Sadieville since 7:00 p.m. Looks like sledding tomorrow.
Nothing happening on SE side of Elizabethtown.
Loys’s son
London = snow then sleet then rain then all the above then repeat cycle.
Beautiful big wet snow in downtown Lex!
CB, perhaps you need to subtitle: Upper, upper central Kentucky as far as snow fall 😉 The only thing heavy we are seeing is rain and sparse sleet/snow so far.
Very light sleet west of Etown. Temp at 35.
Sleeting pretty hard in Grayson, Carter County right now.
Got one pocket of heavy precip moving from West KY. If you don’t catch that well I’m sorry. Storm is a dud.
Dud isn’t even the word for it. Complete bust for pretty much everyone. Bring on spring.
I live near Bowman Field in Louisville, between the Highlands and St. Matthews and at a little after 9 in the evening just light rain. Had a few wet flakes earlier but now just plain rain. I see another 2-4 inches of mud in my backyard tomorrow morning. I am officially over this and ready for the first day of spring. If any met mentions snow in the next two months I’m just going to laugh at them. Strong, the dome is.
Kelly don’t give up hope. The local meteorologists (I am in Louisville as well) have been very consistent in stating that areas south of the river, Louisville included, would start out as all rain and wouldn’t transition to snow until much later, with the best chance of accumulating snows occurring in the overnight hours. Lauren Jones from Wave3 has just put up on Facebook that the winter storm warning might need to be extended farther south to include Louisville! She said that she isn’t forecasting that necessarily, but she doesn’t disagree either. I can still see us getting in on some action, especially considering it wasn’t supposed to transition to snow here until later. We shall see!
I read Laurens post but I just don’t know. I hope you are right but so far not even much rain (which is good I guess). We’ll see. I guess I’m just tired of having to clean all the mud off my dogs every time I let them out to go to the bathroom. I’d like a day or two break from doing that.
I do not know how Lauren Jones could even say that. Has she not looked outside or at the radar? Snow is not sticking. Precip will be out of here in few hours. No way Louisville needs a WSW.
I know…they are going down with the ship. I refuse to ever believe another snow forecast. Not one.
Honestly if I wake up with 2 inches on the ground, I would be thrilled. Any more is just icing on the cake. I just want enough to be able to take my girls out to play in. It is hard to stay positive, especially after so many near-misses, but eventually the snow will find us. I am hoping this time. Kelly—I, too, am so sick of this cold, miserable rain. Go Cards—that want her forecast, sh just pointed out that there was data suggesting it should be. You guys may be right, this might be a bust for us—but I won’t give up until it is over.
Oops, sorry about the typos.
“That was not her forecast, she was just pointing out…”
DRY slot has arrived in Frankfort, Beginining to have doubts about any significant snow in Frankfort, hey what else is new right!
Big wet flakes here in Danville
If I understand this correctly any totals before midnight is a bonus because changeover was not to occur until midnight. Agree?
Agree, but if radar south west of here is correct we might have another 4-5 hour window of good moisture left, this stuff has much more of a north movement than east at the moment?
It is sleeting in Grayson KY!
Big snow flakes with some rain, Madison co, just across the I-75 bridge.
Few wet snow flakes in Morehead, and 34 degrees..
37 and steady moderate rain in Bowling Green.
Big flakes falling in Madison County (close to Union City).
Rain mixed with bigger flakes of snow in Richmond. Yes, that is a POSITIVE reaction. 🙂 Thinking snow.
Bigger flakes coming down now. Yeah, the kind that go “splat” when they hit the concrete. 🙂
I feel ya, and I’m rootin’ for ya. THINK SNOW AND STAY POSITIVE!!!!
Sleeting now outside near Taylorsville. Wind has picked up.
Just barely started snowing in Northwest part of Lexington. We never fail to miss out on the rain but somehow we miss out on the snow.
Great big snowflakes in Richmond, but it’s not laying on the ground yet. Currently 34 degrees–let the temp drop just a little bit more!
Coming down hard again in east Fayette
36 deg and a rain sleet mix
00Z NAM initialized great with the precip field…even shows the dry slot punching into western KY at this hour. For the rest of the night, it holds surface temps. where they are as of 22:00 and takes the precip. out of central KY before dawn. It had looked like that with temps falling rapidly, the accums. might be higher than predicted. But now it’s looking like initial totals forecasts from this afternoon may be correct afterall.
I would say lower, Frankfort area maybe a Inch, anything more EPIC!!!
I’m gonna bust too low for much of the Lexington metro. Heavy snow will really add up tonight.
Will the real Chris Bailey please stand up, please stand up?
That is Chris. He just tweeted the same thing.
COOL? It is snowing harder Now in Frankfort, Chris you area the Godfather of winter weather forecasting!
I just wish the fence was not so tight that you can be specific to a metro area 😉
I hate painting fences and being in the winter of them ;(
flakes as big as dinner plates. and they are starting to stick!!!!!!
Rain sleet snow very light in Frankfort dome, temp holding now at 32.9, Big winners are Indiana again, see a pattern here?
Snow really coming down good SE Lex out Todds rd.
Back to rain again. Hopefully not for too long.
Not a flake in my part of Madison County. 8-6-24 IWBIWISI.
Good thing I don’t believe any winter forecast. (No offense. I just don’t believe the science / modelling / math is there yet.) I think it is all guestcasting or pastcasting.
Big flakes now in north Madison, but they are spread apart by a few feet. Kind of like light snow flakes, but the flakes have joined together to make big flakes so spread more apart.
Bubba we had that earlier but now it’s gone the way of a mix/rain again. Need some of that colder air to mix down.
I think the closer to the south side of the river, the more of a challenge that might be.
Rain-very cold-Laruel/Clay.
Lex Mesonet is 32 degrees..everybody else around is above freezing
Klumps at Clay’s Ferry….big, beautiful bloby things with an extremely light breeze but still it is air movement…..will be interesting to see what the morning brings as I have the final Christmas family thing at Ft. Thomas tomorrow.
i am in northwest illinois and it missed all of me and i am so thankfull
Portions of the Indianapolis area have picked up close to 4″ in the last 3 hours! Man I wish we could get that to come this way! They’ve already got plenty of snow up there anyway. BTW, temp finally dropping with big fluffy flakes in Wilmore temp at 33.8, down almost 4 degrees in last hour. Please overachieve, snow!
It’s been snowing in Winchester for about 10 mins and ground is already covered! I hope it doesn’t change back to rain.
Is this what is known as “dynamic cooling” because it is 34 degrees?
I think the lex area has an over achiever going on 🙂
It is snowing more south and east of Frankfort in areas that are forecast to have less than Frankfort, Proof that Frankfort really is dome central!
All snow in Lawrenceburg, but melting on contact. Temperature 34*
Just watched news in Louisville and it was nice flakes starting to cover things. Ver frustrating as i am only ten miles south of live shot and mostly sleet here. They mentioned increasing totals for Louisville.
Still sleet near Taylorsville.
38 and a light rain in SW Breathitt.
Still coming down at a good clip and looks like some even heavier precipitation heading toward Lex. On the radar. That doughnut hole filled in nicely.
Oh, if only the snow of 5 minutes were enough to lift the spirits for a lifetime….
Guess we’ll see what is on the lawn in the morning.
just changed to snow here! Come on SNOW!!!! keep it up please!!!!!
Nothing but sleet in north Madison. Our 4M old kitten was outside seeing his first frozen precipitation. The sleet was bouncing off him and instead of “meow”, he did a big “mehh”. I am serious.
A Bruce Springsteen song comes to mind, “The River”.
Now mega chunga flakes and a coating of snow. Road is starting to get slick. Kitty was not sure about the snow flakes.
Kitty’s Back
bruce ref for ya’
It’s changing back to a mix here in Winchester. 🙁
Snowing in Garrison, Lewis County
Chris pouring snow here in Morgan co….
It’s been snowing in Shelbyville for over 3 hours with no accumulation so far. The temperature has dropped to 33 though so hopefully we are close to getting some accumulating snow.
Moderate snow and sticking near Fayette Mall in Lexington
Roads are very slick coming from Lexington to Nicholasville.
Cold rain in Barbourville (Knox Co.) 🙁
Snowing in Ashland local weather said no snow here till after 6am reason we still follow Chris
Amen to that;) I always check Chris’s blog first!!!!!
Snowing like crazy here in Winchester,KY. Saw a sign that said watch out for deer when I was driving home, I drove for 10 miles and never saw a deer. Then saw another sign that said watch out for falling rock and when I was watching for fallin rock I hit a deer….
deck duster in Frankfort, temp 32.7
snowing pretty hard in western Jefferson county ( Louisville) . it just starting to stick .
Finally have light snow falling in Lewis Co., KY. Radar has showed rain for a while but it never made it to the ground.
Flakes are coming down and sticking to my deck near Taylorsville!
In Union Co. It’s old school down here right now! Pouring huge flakes for hours now on top of the previous six inches.
Cold rain still falling in Berea
Can’t get the matches to lite,they lit yesterday……..
Ugh… so what the heck? It snowed hardcore here in Lexington and then… it rained? And melted it all away. :/
Not in SE Lex out Todds rd. Its still snowing and everything is covered. Streets even have a slushy amount on them.
I’m in SW lexington — it rained for a short spurt around the time I posted earlier and then within 15-20 minutes started snowing again… who knows what that was about! It’s sticking well now though 🙂
Good Rachel 🙂 Hope all of Lex. gets a good one.
Moderate SNOW in Frankfort, starting to stick to everything 🙂
Starting to stick in Shelbyville. Weather stations in Louisville are calling for 3-6 inches in Louisville and surrounding counties and 6+ from Paoli, IN and northeast.
Huge flakes west Franklin County…no more rain. Ground almost covered in the last few minutes. Traffic on I-64 has slowed way down.
Starting to stick on elevated surfaces in Ashland
At least a half inch in Lawrenceburg and accumulating FAST. Heavy snow now falling and roads are quickly gaining accumulation as well.
Not doing anything down here on the border….36* and cloudy.. no rain or snow at least none that I could see!
Heavy band moving through SE Lex again.
HUGE snow flakes in east Frankfort. WOW this is cool, I hope this can keep it up for a while! Maybe 1/2 inch, temp 32
Same in west Frankfort! Beautiful so far. We already have about an inch and it’s still coming down! 🙂
Slowing out now (snow/sleet). About 70% sleet.
Sleet + snow = Slow….. get it?? I don’t want to.
Now that’s funny
Quarter size flakes in Lewis County right now.
SNOW STICKING IN MASON WV !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Light rain and 33 degrees in Maysville at 23:23
Beautiful snow falling in Fleming County!
About 1in. Of snow in Frankfort, temp 31.7, sticking to roads and getting slick, be careful out their !
If a little snow like this gets people silly, Chris will need a bigger server if there really is a big snow. You know, considering the odds, he is probably OK with what you have now. No point in wasting money 😉
Well this forcast from the NWS for Lex tonight is already a bust. Overnight Snow, possibly mixed with rain. Low around 32. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of less than one inch possible. Just measured about an inch on the deck with moderate snow still falling and more coming in on the radar.
well the i wouldn’t go to far into that…lmk has chronically underdone snow for lexington even for the events for which things have worked out…several times when i lived there lmk would record lexington for getting 1-2 inches of snow when we got 4 or 5 inches, really going to affect long term averages…
It stopped snowing and is light rain with fine sleet mixed in north Madison. If south of the river gets little to nothing and north of it averages 2″, that is still about an inch.
The coverage of the snow seems too sporadic, so the edge must be around south Lexington and across the river is where snow likes to usually die.
BubbaG — that’s exactly what it did here in my area of Lexington around an hour ago. It rained/fine sleet for maybe 15 or 20 minutes, enough to melt what had already fallen, but since then it’s been snowing pretty heavily nonstop.
Still rain & sleet here. Boo!
It is a winter wonderland here in Northern Scott Co. Big, Fat, Wet, Christmas snow!
Even if it is a little snow I will go ahead and say it. DEFINITELY NOT LAST WINTER! Ok so I screamed it.
Hmmmm. Perhaps it will snow a foot and cancel the game. Can we flip for the victory?? I do not want Ricky to get the satisfaction of a more likely than not win.
I think Rick is a scumbag. Should’ve been fired no doubt. I do not support him,I support the players. That’s what a real fan does.
Not even a trace in Bullitt County yet
About 1.5 in. In east Frankfort, snowing moderate, Don’t hate 😉
Mehhh. 😉
raining on the north side of the river too. boo hoo hoo.
our satellite is out from the heavy snow…didn’t get to see Chris on air tonight. I bet he was cheesin!
My went out to just take the broom to it…
Just took a walk with my wife . Great snow stroll.
with a troll 😉
Intense snow falling and 32 degrees in northwest Lex. It’s snowing hard at the moment! Enough so that the streets are becoming white slowly. How long the intense rate will last I don’t know.
Started snowing around 10:30 here in Maysville… Approx an inch of accumulation and its coming down pretty good.
Monster Flakes falling in Cynthiana right now, roads in town are covered.
well as with all the other “events” we have had this yr the only thing the knox whitley border has received is a coating of rain.
We didnt even have rain here in maysville, the only precipitation we have had is big wet fluffy snow flakes
Snowing large flakes and sticking in Grayson!
Snowing hard here. Small flakes, already covered roads & the places that snow had melted today. 31 degrees in Crittenden County.
The NWS changed our forecast. Earlier this evening, they said we would see less than an inch. Its been snowing for 3 hours now. A bit ago, they changed the amount to 1-3 inches. I’m in NW WV, a hour from Parkersburg. They also extended the WWA to include Parkersburg.
Just a cold rain in Crab Orchard right now, while I see pics from a friend in Danville and they have what looks like a decent coating.
36 degrees and the rain just changed over to sleet in Bowling Green! Maybe we will pick up a little bit this time.