Good Saturday, weather peeps. A very nice weekend is off and running, but the focus of the forecast continues to be on our taste of winter coming in a few days. This comes courtesy of an early season arctic cold front that arrives Tuesday.
The arctic front arrives late Monday night into Tuesday morning and will have a quick hitting band of light snow behind it. This shows up well on the NAM…
The Canadian Model has a similar look for Tuesday morning…
Here’s the early call on how this may play out…
– A quick hitting band of light snow dives in from the northwest by Tuesday morning. This may just be enough to cause a small accumulation for a few folks.
– After the band of light snow… a few snow showers and flurries will be around.
– The air behind this arctic front is cold!! Readings for Tuesday will hang in the low and middle 30s.
– Gusty winds up to 30mph will be possible. That could knock our wind chill temps into the teens at times.
– A few flurries may linger into Wednesday with lows around 20 and highs back in the 30s.
If we are later in December or January, this isn’t a big deal. But, it’s early November and this is a setup that doesn’t happen too often.
Does all of this jump start winter? Blocking looks to start showing back up over the next few weeks and that will up the ante on more cold and snow chances before Thanksgiving. Heck, many of the models are showing an interesting setup by late next weekend into early the following week…
I will have updates as needed. Have a great day and take care.
Are you ready for another year of false model projections? Take the cold rain forecast model to the house.
thanks, Chris. looks about right for the snow- it will be cool if we get anything , this early in the season.
go cats!!! awesome weekend for BBN.
Football Cats need to call it a year, Basketball is what we need to focus on now, a little snow would be nice also!
For anyone interested in some snowfall data going back to 1947……Here is a site………although I’m not exactly sure how accurate it is……it stops in 2012
scroll down and click the lexington wso, then on the left pane, you will scroll down and see snowfall listings, under that, click monthly totals. It looks like the majority of Novembers here had an inch or so of snow.
http://www.sercc.com/climateinfo/historical/historical_ky.html