Good evening, everyone. Gust winds are leading the charge into more winter weather with 3 snowmakers coming our way in the coming days. The first arrives behind the Wednesday arctic front crossing the state from northwest to southeast.
Temps drop all day long Wednesday as gusty showers give way to snow showers and squalls. Those kick in Wednesday evening into early Thursday and some of those may be fairly stout at times. Here’s the HRRR future radar showing all this…
Widespread coatings to 1″ will be likely into much of central and eastern Kentucky with higher amounts in the far southeastern mountains…
The timing on all this will mean slick roads Wednesday night and Thursday morning with a real shot at another snow day for some on Thursday.
The snow showers and flurries taper off during the afternoon and early evening, just in time for the next system to sweep in with a healthy swath of accumulating snows. Here’s the area I’m targeting at the best chance for a general 2″-4″ snowfall…
Short-range models like the NAM aren’t exactly built for this type of an event as they ALWAYS overdo the amount of Warm Air Advection and push things too far to the north to start, then they slide south with time.
Most of the other models agree on this general trajectory but there’s still some north-south wiggle room.
Here’s the EURO…
The late day Short Range Canadian…
The GFS…
The Canadian Parallel is a bit south with that initial system but it does show what I think is a decent scenario with the third system behind it late Saturday into Sunday. This animation shows both of those…
Bitterly cold air crashes in behind that weekend system with lows that can make a run at 0 by Sunday or Monday mornings. Wind chills go well below zero for areas with snow on the ground. Here’s the EURO Wind Chill forecast from 7am Sunday to 7am Monday…
The full update will have TWO calls for different snowfalls tonight! I’ll also have a few updates on my Meteorologist Chris Bailey Facebook Page
Until then, here are your tracking tools for the day…
Make it a terrific Tuesday and take care.
