Good evening, folks. I hope this update finds each of you living your best life! It’s another dreary evening in Kentucky, but the focus of the forecast is on a big change to winter on the way for the week ahead. That’s a change surely to make cold and snow lovers smile.
Showers out there this evening are becoming much more scattered with the greatest concentration across the southern half of the state. Here are your radars to track the chilly drops…
A chilly shower or two will be leftover into early Sunday. The best chance is across the east and southeast.
Our big change to winter continues to be well behaved to this point. Here are some fresh headlines for ya:
- A potent low pressure in the plains will turn into a blizzard for some areas of the plains and upper midwest late Monday through Wednesday.
- That low will turn east toward the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley Tuesday and Wednesday. At the same time, another storm takes over along the east coast and lifts northward.
- What does all this mean for Kentucky? A lot.
- Heavy rain and gusty winds will move in for Tuesday night and Wednesday. Some thunder may be noted in the far west, but the strong storm threat is south of us.
- A powerful cold front sweeps through here Wednesday night and Thursday. This will initially dry our skies out as temps crash.
- As the storm cranks along the east coast, and that may be near blizzard strength, an upper level system drops in here from the northwest.
- Ample low-level moisture under that upper level system will likely create rounds of light snow and snow showers from Thursday night into next weekend.
- My early thought is that our region can get into some light accumulating snows during this time.
The European Model has this look pegged very well, but it’s having some p-type issues behind it in our region…
Check out that low along the east coast! Whoa!!
The snowfall map from that run of the EURO shows a crusher for the northeast with some light snow accumulations pretty far south…
The setup for Christmas week will feature even colder air diving into the country. At the same time, southern stream energy is likely to be cranking and this combo can lead to some fun and games for much of the country.
The setup upstairs on the day 10 EURO is attention getting…
Energy dropping in from Canada and trying to phase with energy coming from the southwest? Yes, please!
The ENSMEBLES continue to be incredibly cold through Christmas weekend…
Enjoy the evening and take care.
Thanks Chris, for the update. Hoping no severe thunderstorms or tornadoes breakout as they did a year ago in Western Kentucky and in my County of Taylor. I’ve been very concerned about severe weather happening yet this Fall, but glad and relieve that the threat is minimal. What Snow that happens to accumulate with the phasing of the two disturbances will be interesting to track. Hoping it doesn’t get too frigid after the storm moves towards the New England States.
Road trip to northeast????? I do hope we get some snow!!!
We’ll, the 00z GFS found the cold, lol
That Louisiana Low on the Day 10 Euro could give us the best chance for accumulating snow that we’ve had around here (South Central Kentucky) in a VERY long time. If we don’t, then it will prove that the Bowling Green Bubble is for real!