Good Wednesday, everyone. We continue to watch a winter storm impacting the bluegrass state with rounds of snow. That will continue into the morning hours, creating slick travel conditions for many. Snow accumulations should hit the forecast mark for much of the region.
The higher amounts will be in the north with lots of inch or two totals across the south and east. Light snow showers and flurries will then take over into the afternoon as temps hit the low and middle 30s. Keep in mind… this is March and much of the snow we start the day with won’t be with us as we end it.
I have you all set for one stop shopping with the tracking toys…
Current Temperatures
I-75 @ Clays Ferry Bridge South
Between Lexington and Richmond
View of Downtown
Richmond
US 60 @ US 127
Frankfort
I-71/I-75 at Buttermilk Pike
Near Covington
I-71/I-75 at I-275
Near Covington
I-64 @ 3rd St. Exit
Louisville
Downtown Louisville @ 2nd & Broadway
Louisville
Courthouse Square
Somerset
View from Courthouse
Pikeville
Natcher Parkway MP 5
Near Bowling Green
I-24 MP 7 @ US 62
Paducah
An update later today will concentrate on where we go from here. Have a good one and take care.
Thanks Chris. Hoping for an overachiever but looking to be an underachiever here. Everyone be careful on your way to work in the morning.
Not doing much in Frankfort, still less than one inch, maybe it will pickup later?? This looks like a scattered total event, hit and miss, mostly miss!
It’s 1:27 a.m. here in Perry Co., and things are just starting to get white here. A light but steady snow is falling. Getting to work may be an adventure.
I would say that so far…this is an achiever to over achiever event in Lexington. The system is only about half over…and in general…we’ve probably got 2 inches on the ground already…with note that some spots are deeper, and other places are more bare due to wind driven affects. I’m also impressed that despite the wind, there is complete ground coverage when considering there were numerous areas of standing water in the courtyard of where I am at. This snow overtook the mitigating affects of standing water and wet ground. When all is done, barring a sudden shutoff of snow (which continues to come down at a nice steady clip now), my belief is that we will have experienced a 6-9 IN snowfall in the sky event in order to get 4 IN on the ground…and this will happen. If so, this is an overachiever, as 4 Inches was the max expectation…period the end…from all sources and agencies.
Well I’m up late as usual and looking out it’s coming down decently even though looking at the NWS radar it doesn’t look nearly as impressive as the radar posted on this page…….so far so good….
3 in. here in SE Lexington on my deck. I’d say forcast was right on spot.
North Richmond got about one inch. Even the “drift” areas are not over two inches. Seems that rather than snow, the wind was the bigger story. Mostly all bark with a little nibble (not really a bite). For a windy system, three inches should result in significant drift areas. Perhaps three inches are the drifts 😉
Fitting conclusion to this thing called winter.
There actually looks to be about 2 inches outside, so considering the melting, there was some bite to go along with the bark.
No, it was 3 inches in Lexington. Drifts were 4-5 inches.
It is nice and very wintery looking outside and still snowing. I want to say two good inches at this point here in northwest Lexington.
Well, that was fun, better enjoy (what looks to be the last) the snow of the season. Snow day so not bad. Goodbye “winter” (that never was)
I will be glad for winter to be over to not read bubba g make the same negative comments everyday…”meh”
Well Louisville sure was a bust for the 1-3 / 2-4 inches (depending on which forecast you watched) we were supposed to get. Just another disappointment.
1-3 inches fell, just didn’t measure up do to warm ground. WHAS called for 2-5 inches while WAVE3 was calling for about an inch with little higher amounts west of the city and this was the 1100 o’clock news.
1.50″ here in Berea on a successful forecast. Looks beautiful out in the woods this morning. This calls for brewing some freshly ground coffee on the ole percolator.
I just realized that our city only truly started getting snow after Bailey jumped over to ‘Team Spring’ a while back. Interesting.
There is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.æ
weather is just weather its neither good or bad
Whether we like it or not 😉
Once again rain reigns supreme 2 inches of rain less than half an inch of snow
It’s a win/win for everybody. Most of the area had at least some snow and the haters can still thump their chest and say they didn’t get snow on their back porch!
I will have to remeber re playing reporting conditions us hating
Thanks 😉
1-2 inches in Leslie County, upslope snow showers beginning to increase again. For the past seven days, total of 4-6 inches for our area, especially on southern end of county with elevations over 2,000 feet.
1-2 inches in Lawrenceburg and North Mercer depending on the location. Chris said 1-4, NWS said 2-4 for the area. Sounds like a verified forecast to me.
Official Lexington total as of 7:00 A.M. is 11.0 inches for the winter season. Normal for entire season is 12.9. So, one more small snow would get us there. Now it is a race against time.
If the official total is 11.0 for the season, before this storm it was 9.7. So that means that this storm official total was 1.3 inches? How did you find this on their website? I always look at the climate date that they update at like 1 to 4 pm I think?
I looked at yesterday’s climate report and then they had snowfall listed from Midnight to 7:00 A.M. as 1.3 inches.
That’s amazing. In my part of Richmond, 3 inches perhaps 3.5 all year…
2 inches on ground here on CURRY BRANCH road of east 80 in manchester.
if we had few degrees colder we got 2 more inches.
NAILED IT Bailey did, well done sire.
When did out normal snow drop to 12.9″. I swear I’ve seen it listed even on the NWS page as 19″.
Normal is based on a rolling average, so ” normal” is a relative thing. Case in point, if we go by the last two winters, our normal south of the river is less than 3″ 😉
I can spin with semantics with the best of folks all day 🙂
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/lmk/lexington_cli_pdf/monthly_normals_1981_2010_lexington.pdf
It is actually 13.0 and not 12.9.
They look at 1980 to present (for our average) and not prior to that. Since 1980 and beyond has had some really LOUSY winters, that average dropped. If they take the average since records have been kept I think Lexington’s average is 17 to 19 inches annually
Here in Middlelsboro, about an inch and a half and still snowing so predictions did hit the mark. Snow started powdery and still is so. Never had the big wet flakes that you guys had in the northern half of the state. Ready for Spring more than ever now. 62-65 degrees this weekend is gonna feel so good!
we had 2 inches as well but it ended up being in the liquid form 😉
We ended up with 2 inches of snow here in Shelbyville.
Maybe 1.5 inches total in Frankfort, again the very low end of predicated totals, over a foot in Frankfort this winter, I have had enough ankel biters and soul skimmers for one year, SPRING sounds good!