Good evening, gang. A band of light snow and flurries will develop to our west later this evening and sweep eastward across the state. This will arrive into the overnight hours and early on Tuesday morning. Can someone pick up a rooftop dusting out of this? Maybe.
In addition to the flakes… cold air continues to funnel in and this will produce wind chills closer to 0 at times by morning. Ouch!
I figured I would set you up to track the evening away…
Current temperatures
Winds
Take care.
Thank you, Chris. Looks like not much hope for a white Chirstmas. As ususal, you have to go north or to higher elevations for that. But hopefully all of Kentucky will finally get a nice snow in January.
Merry Christmas everybody!
A White Christmas is defined as 1 inch of snow or more on the ground on Christmas Day. I count a trace or some flurries–LOL. The official definition being met is more rare in Central Kentucky as most think. Here are the ten most recent White Christmases.
2010
1999
1995
1993
1989
1969 (no snow on the ground on Christmas morning–but snowed 4 inches during the day, we’ll count that!)
1963
1961
1948
1939
So since 1939, there have only been ten Christmas Days where there was either an inch or more of snow on the ground or an inch or more of snow fell. That’s why I thought 2010 was so special–a nice inch of snow on Christmas Eve followed by another inch or two Christmas Day.
I also notice four of the ten were in the 1989-1999 time frame. That seemed to be the time for “blockbuster winters” around here. I dare say many folks who post on this blog “came of age” during those winters. Could that be why we think the lack of big snow is surprising?
Winter of 1977-78 was another one that anyone old enough to remember will never forget. The next winter was a pretty good one too, but nothing in my lifetime (born in 1964) has compared to ’77-’78. It may not have been a White Christmas in ’77, but the rest of the winter was a doozy.
it looks like the line of snow is dissipating as its reaches Kentucky.
what a surprise.
That ain’t too festive…. Don’t blame it on the sunshine, don’t blame it on the moonlight, blame it on the Virga!
And no white Christmases in the 70s when many of us experienced the snowy and cold winters of 1977 and 1978.
I posted above before I saw your comment. I noticed that too. Those were some brutal winters around here.
Dang! here was a great volley of posts in the last thread…..
FLAME ONNNNN!!! A tribute to the Torch 🙂 ……….
I’ll predict an average high of 27 in January (same departure as normal from 57) if it will provide some comic relief.
comic relief I predict Bubba will receive 10 ankle biter snowfalls this year instead of only two. now that’s going out on a limb
Wow….all I said is blowtorch is heading to South America and we get the best entertainment in a while on this blog. By the way CB did say it was a diminishing line of snow heading are way.
Trends trump all in Kentucky. To many years of the same ol same ol with a surprise every once in a while. That is how we do wenther in KY. Cold rain or ice…..snow for the north and southeast on occasion….otherwise it is either to warm or to cold for snow.
Bring on the fluke storm to make everyone happy already…thanks again CB for your time. January WILL bring us SNOW!!!!!
Just for you Bubba I will do Nickelback karaoke night. 🙂