Good Thursday to one and all. We have a round of light snow and flurries rolling into the region today as another arctic front settles in. This front knocks the temps back down for Friday before the numbers finally start to climb over the weekend into early next week.
Today’s flake action is along and ahead of a cold front dropping in from the northwest. This spits out light snow and flurries this afternoon and evening with the chance for light accumulations for some, especially in central and eastern Kentucky.
Here are your tracking tools including our Kentucky Weather Cams to watch the snows flying across the state…
This shouldn’t add much to the seasonal snowfall totals already between 10: and 20″ for much of central and eastern Kentucky. The seasonal snowfall map for the country is pretty amazing to see…
Florida and Louisiana have had more snow than much of Iowa and Nebraska!
Today’s flakes back here in Kentucky are ahead of a modified blast of arctic air for Friday. Lows are likely back into the single digits across the northern half of the state…
Wind chills will be frigid and may briefly hit negative numbers early Friday then again early Saturday. This animation shows the wind chills from Friday morning through Saturday morning…
The weekend finds temps recovering enough to melt what will by then be a 3-week-old snowpack… Which is crazy!!
Temps spike even more early next week ahead of a cold front dropping in late Tuesday and Wednesday. That has the chance for a rain or snow shower with it before the pattern turns very active.
The models are all seeing a couple of storm systems rolling through here, putting us on the rain/snow line to end the month and begin February.
Here’s the EURO…
And the GFS…
I continue to beat the drum on a very active pattern storm track taking shape for our region starting in February. This means well above normal precipitation and the EURO Weeklies continue to really drive this home…
Some of this comes from heavy rain, some from heavy snow and some may even come from strong or severe storms. Buckle up for a wild weather ride, folks.
I’ll have updates later today. Enjoy your Thursday and take care.
I have had my fill of frigid temperatures, and my next electric bill will almost certainly ram that point home. The good news is that keeping several faucets on slow drip saved my pipes. For the heck of it I decided to check the temperature of the water coming from my tap, which turned out to be a bone chilling 43°F!
Joe, when I bought this cabin in 2008. I notice there was no electrical conduit, and it was plumbed with Pex pipe rather than copper pipe. This may explain why I never had any problems with the plumbing.
Thanks for the update Chris. Looking forward to not as cold and the above normal precipitation. Hopefully, some of those days will be Snowy. Enjoy the day Chris.
Joe I slow dripped my faucets too it works.
I’ve enjoyed the Snowy days, but not the frigid, dry weather this month. No frozen pipes. The lowest temperature was -3. Maybe we will have one or two of those heavy wet Snows, with not so cold temperature in the next two months. Take care everyone !
I wonder if we will have warmer temps for February since we had such a cold month in January. It was amazing to see all the snow pics from the beaches in Florida New Orleans.