Saturday Night Look Ahead

Good evening, everyone. This post is a little later than I had hoped for because your friendly weatherdude has been doing Christmas parades and some other odds and ends. This post is straight and to the point as we have a harsh period of winter weather on the way.

An arctic front moves in late Sunday will have a temp jump ahead of it with a big drop behind it. We will see a mix of light rain and some light snow ahead of it with a period of light, accumulating snow behind it.

The light accumulations would occur Sunday night and Monday morning.

The latest future radar from the HRRR starts at 1pm Sunday and goes through 1pm Monday. Notice how it does pop a decent little band of light snow across central and eastern Kentucky…

Temps on Monday are frigid with several areas staying below freezing with a wind chill near 20.

Temps spike briefly late Tuesday into early Wednesday ahead of another arctic front dropping in late Wednesday. This may have a touch of rain and snow with it, but the system behind it may very well have a healthy swatch of accumulating snow Thursday into Friday.

The latest EURO shows this well…

The earlier run of the EURO has a little more juice with that system…

The GFS has this system as well, but the bias of the GFS is to pop the low just a little too far north. This system would then be followed up by what may be a serious bout of arctic air that would be introduced by a snow maker on the leading edge of it.

Here’s the late afternoon run of the GFS showing all this through December 15…

The prior run of the GFS shows 3 snow system threats on this bitter northwest flow…

Since mid-November, I’ve talked about how this pattern would try to throw a major arctic attack or two at us around mid-December. The seeds for that are being planted. Look at the Barney later next week into early the following week…