Good Monday, everyone. We are entering the final phase of our massive winter storm as another round of snow sweeps across Kentucky. This will be falling on several inches of snow and ice from the first two phases of this storm.
We have a lot of power outages across the state with the greatest concentration along and south of Interstate 64. This is the area we highlighted for the greatest ice storm potential and some areas picked up more than .50″ of pure freezing rain. That was falling on top of several inches of snow in many cases.
Winter Storm Warnings remain for much of the area today…
The upper low spins through from west to east today as our surface low pushes off to the east. This brings another wave of moderate to heavy snow spiraling through today. This future radar from the Hi Res NAM starts at 7 this morning and goes trough 7am Tuesday…
You can see our band of snow is followed up by a few snow showers later tonight.
Additional snowfall after 7am today is likely to range from 1″-4″ for much of the region. I like what the GFS is doing with the snow accumulations during this time…
Another 1″-4″ of snow falling on top of 3″-10″ of snow encrusted in a half inch or so of ice? Yep. This is going to be one heck of a layering we have on the ground, folks. As temps drop back into the low 20s during the afternoon, all that slush is going to become a snow rock!
The snow out there today will be accompanied by winds gusting 20mph to 30mph, potentially creating whiteout conditions at times.
Additional snow showers and flurries likely spin up on Tuesday and Wednesday as this northwest flow continues…
Those can put down additional light accumulations for central and eastern Kentucky.
Can we get clear skies by Wednesday or Thursday morning to allow temps to absolutely tank over this snowpack? The GFS thinks so, especially on Thursday when it takes the numbers well below zero…
I continue to watch the setup for Friday and Saturday as it may bring another round of accumulating snow into our region. This may very well be another Winter Storm THREAT at some point soon.
The models are seeing the possibility…
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Another snow maker follows that up late next weekend into early the following week with another storm threat trying to develop after that.
I’ve been warning you guys about this pattern since a few weeks before Christmas and it looks like Old Man Winter ain’t playing around.
Updates will come your way later today. Until then, I have your tracking tools including our Kentucky Weather Cams to watch the wild weather across entire region…
Have a great Monday and take care.
That was some HEAVY SNOW yesterday… It was snowing so hard it looked like dense fog…. It is kind of magical how bright the night is with snowpack….and things are so much more quiet.. It’s so cool.
If someone is bored… go back and look at the last update… showing the Hi-res NAM future radar…. and notice something: There’s no dry slot…. and yet in reality, there is and has been a dry slot for a while now… until the ULL snows move through… so that was kinda wrong. LOL
Thanks Chris. What a beautiful Winter’s morning. Trees are beautiful with a coating of Ice on the branches. We took a measurement of how much Snow and Ice we received. Looks to be about 3 inches. I’m thankful that we didn’t lose our power.
Enjoy the Snow Everyone and be safe.
We saw about 10 minutes worth of snowflakes, and ended up with 0.6 inches of ice. Tree limbs broke the power lines behind our house in several places, blowing a transformer in the process. We lost power around 4:00pm and it was restored at 2:45am. I can’t thank the folks at WarrenRECC enough for their tireless efforts (literally!) getting the lights back on!