Good Tuesday, everyone. We have another day of snow showers, cold temps and howling winds out there today. This setup has been rather common during this ugly month of March. I have some good news and it has nothing to do with saving money on car insurance. The pattern will ease up a bit later this week into the weekend.
Snow showers and flurries will be common across the state today and we will see additional, light accumulations. Slick spots on area roads will be common this morning with temps down in the 20s. Afternoon readings will hang in the 30s… again.
Leftover flurries will be noted on Wednesday with highs in the upper 30s and low 40s for most of the region. That’s the beginning of a slow climb out of the temperature basement. Highs by Thursday will warm well into the 40s and may flirt with 50.
The 50s will surge in here on Friday with a fair amount of sunshine. 60 degrees is within reach for Saturday as we start our Easter Weekend.
A cold front will approach the state Easter Sunday and should touch off scattered showers and some rumbles of thunder…
It’s all about the timing of the front as to whether or not your Easter egg hunt is all wet or dry. That’s something we will follow over the next few days.
In looking ahead to next week… the models are fighting. The GFS is showing another big shot of cold air during the middle and end of the week. The European Model has a stormy look to it…
At this point… take the colder solution until further notice. 😉
Have a great day and take care.
Tuesday, Mar 26, 2013 – 1:29:10 AM
SCHOOLS
Bell County Schools CLOSED TUESDAY —
East Bernstadt Independent Schools CLOSED TUESDAY —
Harlan County Christian School CLOSED TUESDAY —
Hazard Christian Academy CLOSED TUESDAY —
Knox County Schools CLOSED TUESDAY —
Laurel County Schools CLOSED TUESDAY —
Leslie County Schools CLOSED TUESDAY Snowbound Plan
Letcher County Schools CLOSED TUESDAY —
Owsley County Schools CLOSED TUESDAY —
Perry County Schools CLOSED TUESDAY —
University of Virginia, Wise Campus 1 1/2 Hour Delay —
Victory Road Christian Academy CLOSED TUESDAY —
Wise County, VA Schools 2 Hour Delay —
Wolfe County Schools CLOSED TUESDAY —
Clay co out all week spring break.
Nor much snow nortwest clay co as of this writing. Maybe a little on car outside. Radar looks like downtown may done better then I have. They was close to 2 inches in spots Monday morning all melted away by 2.
Looking foward to weekend warmup like lit of others are.
Alternating periods of snow and sunshine here in Nashville on Monday. Same story reported up the road in Bowling Green as well. The Monday morning accumulation could be measured in millimeters. While bursts of moderate snow continued even during the afternoon, temperatures had warmed up just enough to melt the limited snow cover (and the high sun angle this time of year helped as well).
Now early this Tuesday morning, a little snow sticking to car tops.
My better half said that most of the hail in Bowling Green from Sunday afternoon (link here) had melted by evening. But she added that a few piles of hail remained when the snow started to fall. Thus the somewhat unusual occurrence of snow and hail on the ground at the same time, despite snow and hail forming from two very different types of weather.
As a WKU alumnus, been a bit rough as of late seeing the Hilltopper men just narrowly miss pulling off a huge upset in the NCAA, and the Hilltopper women falling in the NIT.
But great that NWS Louisville has declared WKU to be Storm Ready (click here).
Just being a WKU alum would be rough enough for anyone, not being able to get into EKU or UK and all… I am sure basketball has little to do with it. 🙂
Official snowfall as of 8:00 A.M. this morning in Lexington is 1.5 inches for this event and 12.5 for the season. A normal season (using the new 30-year normals) is 13.0.
Here are the totals for the past five winter seasons
2009: 12.9
2010: 23.7
2011: 27.8
2012: 7.6
2013: 12.5
This is crazy. My part of Richmond has never had more than 8 inches in any year in the 8 years we have lived here, never more than 5 inches at any one time. This year we may be on 3.5 inches. What a difference 20 miles makes… I don’t think we have had 30 inches total in all my years here… (I am well trained at the back deck use of a ruler…)
Where I used to live in Minneapolis, MN, average is 50″ of snow. Even 30″ sounds like a little bit to me.
…and the 30 inches is TOTAL for 8 years!
It really is crazy.
I would think you would at least be at..say..1/2 of Lexington’s totals!
So in the past five years I think that totals 84.5 inches if the math I did quickly is correct.
Yes–16.5 a year. So the five-year average, for what its worth, is above the new 30-year “normal.” I would not have thought that to be the case.
You beat me to that – I just averaged it out too and thought the same thing….
Anybody else having trouble getting the blog to load page to load ? This is the 1st time i have been able to actually get on and for the record we got around 5 inches for this event on elevated surfaces which brings our seasonal total to around 5 inches
We have 2′ total last 2 days which should bring our total to 6′ for the winter! First time I could get page to load today too! Thanks Chris for all you do!
yea Andy last week or so it will not load from time to time..
Been having same problem having to go into google and get on web site.
Nothing in Greenup Co. as usual.
About 1 inch on the deck in east Frankfort this morning, adding to all the ankle/soul skimmers a little over 15 inches for the season, that is enough, spring you can come home now!
Snow accumulation (or lack of) totals can be very localized (See my post above…). I have never seen such geographic discrepancies until the last few years. (Altitude differences excepted of course.)
Something else I have learned: laugh at the models, ignore the radar, be skeptical of the forecast, trust what you see in your backyard come morning. Winter forecasting must be amazingly difficult.
Wow! Just a laugh at the EURO model, the new run is showing SIGNIFICANT snow for Lexington next Wednesday (Apr. 3). We all know that’s not gonna happen.
http://yr.no/place/United_States/Kentucky/Lexington/long.html
See my note above regarding models…
There have only been five winters in Lexington history to have 40 inches or more of snow, but two of them were back-to-back. On the flip side, there have been only three winters to have less than 3 inches of snow. One of them was 1989.
The last time we had a top ten snowiest winter was 1993-1994 with 31.7 inches.
December 1989 extremely cold and Snowey though !
Chris Mercer may have meant the winter of late 1988-early 89.
The winter of 1989-90 did indeed include the cold snap around Christmas 1989. I think I have vague memories, although I was only about five at the time. Looked up that Lexington plunged to minus 19 degrees. Nashville dropped to minus 10 (Nashville’s all time record is minus 17 set during January 1985 cold wave). Charleston SC had eight inches of snow, even Jacksonville FL had about two inches on the ground Christmas day 1989!
Snowing big FLAKES in Clay County right now!!!!!
Better looking days coming soon
Awww, BubbaDumpling must have gotten some snow. He isn’t on here gracing us with his infinite wisdom.