Good Tuesday and welcome to a day of big weather changes. A powerful cold front is crossing the state early today and is bring a taste of old man winter with it. This is a sign of things to come as there are no signs of spring getting off to an early start.Yes, that officially bums me out. Wait… did I really say that?
Winds will be very gusty today as temps fall through the 30s behind our cold front. Showers will end as a period of light snow from west to east and a minor accumulation is possible for a spot or two. Some late day clearing will take place as the cold air continues to dive in.
Readings later tonight and early Wednesday will reach the teens in many areas. Some sunshine will do little to help out thermometers tomorrow with many areas having a tough time hitting the freezing mark.
Our next storm will begin to impact the region on Thursday with a wintry mix moving in during the afternoon and evening. Cold air will be in place as precipitation edges in and that means a little bit of everything may fall initially…
Most of that will be on the light side, but we will have to watch for some issues Thursday evening. Temps will rise Thursday night as rain takes over. Showers and 40s will be likely on Friday.
This pattern remains very stormy with low pressure areas impacting our weather every few days into early March. It’s very possible for one of these storms to blow up into a biggie.
Blocking continues to show up strongly on the models during this time. That’s never a good thing for those wanting spring…
Those are the forecast temp anomalies from the GFS Ensembles. That’s ugly into early March! Again… no signs of an early spring are showing up.
Have a great Tuesday and take care.
Super we get the blocking In March. Where was this pattern in January for a long duration of time or period. The only good thing that might come from this will be a delay in the extreme heat and humidity.
At least we are not seeing on this blog site any more fictional snow chance models. Chris now understands that they are not worth the time to post.
The devil is not in the details when it comes to their reliability.
Chris just please tell me you don’t see any tornado in our future….Please
He can’t really do that…..
Marsha, the closest tornadic weather over the next few days – especially Thursday – will be much closer to the Gulf Coast.
We here will endure a little snow/freezing rain and perhaps a rumble or two of thunder as we close out this week. But not much more than this.
True, there’s no escaping that we are about to enter the volatile spring months.
But it takes a rare combination of factors for tornado outbreaks in your area. Except for the London/Corbin/Somerset area and far northeastern KY, nothing close to March 2 2012 had ever happened in recorded east Kentucky history.
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West Virginia had huge 1944 tornado outbreak.
but otherwise nothing close to 1944 in WV before or since
There’s a chance for severe weather that will likely stay south but bears watching. The NWS forecast discussion says so.
http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=LMK&product=AFD&format=CI&version=1&glossary=1
On Monday/Tuesday
Thanks mark still very nervous about the spring….
Good thing is some other models are showing it to be close to normal during this time. Hope the GFS is wrong as usual..
51 mph gust in Knott Co. a few hours ago?! Just crazy..
So we are in weather purgatory: No early spring and no real winter as far as snow. This shall be known as the Winter of Meh.
Last year was dubbed the Winter of Meh, so this year it is the Winter of Meh Too. Pun intended.
I think we are all getting into spring mode. I know Chris is. Nothing funny about the wind and the cold temps last night and this morning. We had gusts of well over 50 mph last night. Trying to drive in it was a nightmare. Reminded me of March, which is now meteorologically, 9 days away. 😀 And then, we start getting all the ‘little’ winters. Dogwood, rudbud, blackberry (in may and early june) and a couple more.
Still not complaining about the cold weather. It still should halp with the bug population in the summer months. Hopefully, some of the cold rain we have had will save up and keep us from being too dry, as well.
Thanks, Chris, for all you do for us here on the blog. Guess we are just going to have to plan a trip for next winter somewhere where we can all get a BIG snow and go out to play in it! Have a great Tuesday, everyone!
First baseball game on the 2nd. I need 70 and partly sunny. I LOVE snow, but that hope has died. Bring on the spring.
I hate being in thermal gear and damp at games.
Looking forward to Spring and not buying into the GFS nor the NAM models temp predictions. They are both continuously way off the mark sometimes falling well below what actual temps usually end up being. The tech built into both models are obsolete and wont be upgraded for some time to come so imo, most anything they say should be taken with a grain of salt.
noticed he said won’t be early …. wow, can’t even get it right a few days out but going all out saying spring isn’t coming early …. hey then look at his 10 day defender forecast and every day in the 50’s for the last week of February …. isn’t that way above normal temps ? hey i’m not buying in on the whole early spring thing jack
I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday and she and I never talk about the weather. She had mentioned the white out she had gotten into a while back. She lives in Lexington and often goes to Richmond because she has family down there. I didn’t say a single word about the KY river to her and she said that it’s amazing the times she has driven to Richmond and noticed how the weather drastically changes at the Clay’s bridge. The ONLY time I ever remember seeing a drastic change was the ice storm of 2003. Then again, I don’t cross that bridge that often so there may have been other times this phenomenon has occurred.
We have been saved south of the river from three big ice events since 1987. On the flip side, lost about three inches of snow for a few events. MORE than fair trade 🙂
The last “snow” we had had a remarkable break at the river. At my house in Richmond – less than an inch, as I crossed the bridge heading north it was several inches. This happens quite a lot it seems.
Look at all the winter storm watches to the west of KY, then it just stops at KY, they can have the ICE in Arkansas where northern part now forecast to have over a 1/2 inch, the warm air is a friend this time, its going to save KY from a crippling Ice event!
Actually up to an inch of ice possible in northern Arkansas. Ice will be a big problem with “Q”.
Tis, a true burden our status of guardians from all that is snow.
O heavy burden! ‘Tis the magic word, the magic high will worry your heart with sighs and sorrow.
Messy?
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/noaa/noaad3.gif
The title should be still no sign of true winter
I would be fine if we just wasn’t in the world of in between weather. It is so depressing to always be stuck in the winter of the middle. Too warm too snow and too cold to go outside. I really would prefer to either be in a climate that has snow or to be in a climate that is much warmer than our area. Forty degrees is not a good temp and most of our winter stays in that range.
I don’t like Archie Goodwin.