Good Saturday, everyone. Our second winter storm in a 5 day span is exiting the region today but our harsh winter pattern remains. As we roll into the week ahead, we have bitterly cold air to go along with some light snows targeting the region.
Several inches of fresh snow blanket the Commonwealth with additional snow showers across central and eastern Kentucky through the day. Since Sunday, much of the state has picked up 10″-15″ of snow. Throw in an ice storm and bitter cold temps and you have one of the worst weeks of winter weather you’re every going to find around here.
Thankfully, things slow down out there today as temps stay in the 20s for the most part. Here are the warnings and advisories that are still out in our region…
Sunday looks like the best day for a while with temps jumping up enough to get some melting going. That melt won’t last long as we get several clippers dropping in from Sunday night through Wednesday. Each of these may bring light snowfalls into the area…
Bitterly cold temps take control during this time, especially with those wind chills. This animation goes from 7am Monday to 7am Tuesday…
And those from 7am Tuesday through 7am Wednesday…
Temps will climb by the end of the week into the start of next weekend as the atmosphere reloads for another harsh setup that can throw us another winter storm or two and more bitterly cold air.
The initial system that brings the arctic air back in may even have rain ahead of it. That boundary likely pushes to our east and gets super active with several waves of low pressure riding along it. The operational models are seeing the potential…
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This harsh pattern setting up for that week has been signaled by the EURO Weeklies for some time now. The average of the 101 members show 7 day temps averaging MUCH colder than normal…
That’s a pretty good signal for additional snows, too…
Your normal updates come your way later today. Until then, I have your winter storm tracking tools including our Kentucky Weather Cams to watch the snows flying across the state…
Havea great Saturday and take care.
