Good Sunday to one and all. The wild weather of Saturday is behind us and it’s full steam ahead toward a much colder pattern for the week ahead. The cold of this week is likely a far cry from what’s coming our way over the next few weeks.
Your friendly weatherdude had a long night at work, so you get a quickie update to start the day.
– Showers will move away today as colder air pushes in from the west. Winds will continue to be gusty, but nothing like what we’ve been through.
– Can a wave of low pressure develop far enough west to throw moisture into eastern Kentucky tonight? I guess we shall see.
– Temps hit the 30s tonight and we stay in the 30s on Monday. Some flurries and light snow showers will be possible as even colder air works in.
– This sets the stage for a very cold Christmas Eve. We start the day in the teens and end it in the low to mid 20s. Winds will be gusty and make it feel much colder than it is. Some flurries will be possible and we could see some snow showers in the north and east.
– Christmas looks cold, but dry.
– We continue to have a shot at some light snow later this week.
– The cold is going to really become established over the next few weeks as the pattern threatens to go to the extreme for January. Check out the temperature anomalies (Celsius)…
We’ll talk more later today. Have a good one and take care.
Good job last night on 27 and 56 Chris.
Still no power here in greenup county
Thank you, Chris, Alex and Jim. I thought my house was going to blow away at 11:51 last night. When I saw Chris on TV, I knew it wasn’t good!
57 this morning with some amazing looking clouds. Guess the temp is going to fall all day, so might as well get out and enjoy it now!
Oh–and Lexington set a record high yesterday of 72–and it occurred at 10:22 P.M. Wow!
That is crazy.
Chris said last night that he’s never seen anything like the squall line that blasted through on the first day of winter.
I feel like we are in uncharted waters as far as what can and might happen. Anything is possible.
I thought I might have been wrong with reporting a 60 mph wind gust in Lawrenceburg. Looks like I wasn’t!http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=lmk&storyid=99038&source=0
I think Mr. Heat Miser just wanted to remind everyone that he’s not dead, just incredibly picky about when he wants to rear his ugly mug. I think he’s been satisfied thus far with bumping temps up just enough to miss snow opportunities, than simply baking everything.
The storm last night was indeed an odd duck. Here, the winds only increased about 9 mph, over the already high sustained winds, as the front moved through. The rains were never more than moderate (Madison received about 1″ from the entire event), and there was a distinct lack of cross wind. I had forgotten that I’d left a huge pizza box sitting outside last night. It is against a wall without any sort of roof covering it, and not only was it not blown away, it is bone dry this morning.
I wonder if there has previously been a year with a winter solstice having a record warm temperature?
Btw, you always throw up a lot of interesting/relevant data and, I wanted to say thank you for that effort on your part.
Strummer how much did McCreary get hit?
Still without power here in greenup county
There is a power line laying across my neighbors driveway…still no sign of the electric company
Boo to no power!
Have you called the electric company nobody here can help you with that sorry
We called at 5 this morning..I guess they did come out and told my dad they’d be back by 5
That is pretty good. They base it on the most people they can get active with a repair for residential. This means if a home or area is isolated, they will fix the higher resident count one first.
Who they fix is managed centrally, in order to avoid favoritism. For big events, the local power people that are restoring power also might not have power either.