Good Wednesday, everyone. Our winter storm continues to press across Kentucky with two waves of snow and bitterly cold temps that are here for the rest of the week. This is another harsh week of winter weather across Kentucky.
A Winter Storm Warning is out for many areas early today with a Winter Weather Advisory going up later today and tonight, even though all of this is from the same system. Nothing like complicating the message for the public, eh?
Here’s a look at the Warnings and Advisories…
Here’s a breakdown of how things play out:
- Heavy snow this morning puts down a general 1″-4″ for areas along and south of Interstate 64.
- This snow comes to an end from west to east.
- The next round of snow arrives into central and eastern Kentucky by evening and continues into early Thursday.
- That round puts down another 1″-2″ for many areas.
- All of this adds up to the general 3″-6″ of snow for areas along and south of Interstate 64. Locally higher amounts will be with us in the southeast.
- Winds will be rather gusty and we will see some blowing and minor drifting of the dry snows.
- Temps will be in bitterly cold range, especially with wind chills, through Friday morning.
- Wind chills through that time may drop to 0 to -10 at times.
Because of the bitter cold, a Cold Weather Advisory is out for many areas…
Check out the wind chills forecast from 7pm this evening through 11pm Thursday…
Ouch.
The pattern eases a bit this weekend into early next week, but Old Man Winter isn’t through with us just yet. The setup for early March is one that has “the look” of a pattern that wants to produce another hefty winter event or two…
You can see the active storm track potentially setting up with this…
The EURO Ensembles see a similar setup…
I’m over winter and am fully on #TeamSpring. Who’s with me??
Updates later today. As usual, I leave you with your tracking tools including our Kentucky Weather Cams to watch the wild weather across entire region…
Enjoy the evening and take care.
My power bill was $223… shocked… I thought it would be significantly higher…because the past few years, I feel like you can blink and it goes up… This house is all electric.
Mark, ditto here!! our house is also all electric and our bill was about the same range as yours too. I was expecting a lot more considering the brutal cold temps. When It got extremely cold I could see dollar signs $$$ floating out when the heating strips kicked on our Heat pump.
My electric bill was only $2.13 dollars. I was expecting a bill over $300.00 !
I hate when the heat strips kick on becuase you know it’s $$$… but it feels like a HOT furnace blowing right in your face… I understand it has to do that to keep the set temp… But I find it much more comfortable when the heat strips don’t have to kick on… or at least don’t kick on very often….
I haven’t measured here but just eyeballing it… it looks like we only received about 1 inch of snow…give or take… and looking at the radar, I think the first part is over mostly for us….and at most another inch from the 2nd part… for a total of 2 inches? That’s like WWA criteria… not warning
Thanks Chris. We had about an inch of Snow early this morning. Far less than was expected. I don’t believe a Winter Storm Warning was warranted on a non- phased storm. We shall see what happens today ?
I’m ready for Spring and Summer too, but I would want it to stay Spring and Summer. Not just a number of false Springs. Also a calm and drier weather pattern. Will it happen ? The answer is unfortunately NO !
Enjoy the Day Everyone, and be Safe !
We got a little over 3 inches here in far southern Simpson county. Not quite warning criteria but close. Precipitation band started breaking up about 10pm last night and the models were seeing that there just wasn’t quite the juice they thought there would be outside of the dry nose that snuck in there. It’s really hard to get enough moisture in place around here while also having enough cold air. It’s why is fairly rare to have big snows around here.
We got about 3-4 inches here in western, ky which is okay. They had predicted 6-8
Total here in Bowling Green capped off at 3 inches. It could have been much higher, but a dry slot formed due t-storms in the deep south robbing the moisture flow.
Those March weeklies have a distinct severe weather look to my eyes!
I’ll buy into the longe range models less than 7 days out. Not until then.