Good Tuesday, everyone. Another messy system is rolling across the Ohio Valley today and it’s bringing rain and a little wintry stuff to Kentucky. Once this moves away, snow showers and frigid temps take center stage for the rest of the week.
Rain rolls in early this morning from southwest to northeast. This may start as a little bit of snow across the north and east and there’s even the chance for pockets of freezing rain to show up. The best chance for that is across the cold valleys in the east. This may lead to some slick spots on area roads first thing this morning, so please keep that in mind.
Here are your radars to follow today’s action…
Temps drop enough for streaks of light snow and snow showers to develop later tonight through Wednesday. Can we get some out and out snow squalls? Maybe. This may stick around into very early Thursday morning and there’s the chance for some light accumulations showing up.
The future radar from the HRRR has some nice returns…
The Hi Res NAM looks similar…
Highs Wednesday and Thursday are in the 30s with lows dropping into the 20s.
Temps come down even more Friday into the weekend as a deep trough swings in from the northwest. Highs may struggle to get to the freezing mark on a few days and lows may drop into the teens. Folks, this is incredibly cold for the middle of November.
Wind chills will be even colder…
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There’s even the chance to see a few flakes showing up from time to time, but that doesn’t look like anything substantial by any means.
The look for Thanksgiving Week forecast continues to feature some changes. The extreme cold relaxes for a few days as ridging moves in for a few days before another trough digs in over Thanksgiving weekend.
You can see that on the EURO Ensembles…
The control run of the EURO Ensembles has even deeper with the trough…
That setup may fire up a decent sized storm system around Thanksgiving.
I will get deeper into that later today.
Have a terrific Tuesday and take care.
Ready for it to warm up, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to last too long. A few festive Snowflakes is about what you can expect in my part of the state. Just hope we don’t go way above normal on temperatures in December with a repeat of last year’s tornado outbreak ? Ice storms are more likely in January and February. Hope that doesn’t happen.
Winter Weather Advisories are in effect for the Chicago Metro Area through early Wednesday morning for periodic light to moderate snow, accumulating mainly on the gr-a-s-s. Two to as much as five inches of snow are predicted to fall by tomorrow morning, with the most the further inland you go away from Lake Michigan.
The snow started early this morning around 3 AM. When I got out of work four hours later, I had to brush off about 2 1/2 inches of snow from my car! With temps hovering one to two degrees above freezing, the snow is not really accumulating much on the roadways or pavement at all.
Last year, we did not get our first measurable snow until December 28th, which was our latest ever first measurable snow. We wound up with a wimpy 26 inches of snow for the season. We’re off to a fast start this year though!
Mike, here in Maple we have yet to receive our first flake of Snow, however, we did receive almost an inch of rain the other day, but that’s a drop in the bucket of what we need to bring our soil moisture up to normal. Compared to Chicago’s yearly Snowfall, we are more or less Snow free most years here in Maple. Last Winter we had one good Snowfall 8 inches, which was our total for the Winter season. Pretty sad for Snow Lovers. Adding that Snow in my area doesn’t last more than a day or two which is good if one can’t shovel anymore and is prong to being Snowbound.