Good Wednesday, everyone. Our major ice storm is winding down and it’s leaving behind a lot of serious issues. Tens of thousands of folks spent the overnight without power and a lot of trees and tree limbs were knocked down because of the ice. High water issues were also noted across parts of the area and flood warnings are out for early this morning.
The rest of our day will see snow showers and snow squalls kicking into high gear. These can put down light accumulations that can cause additional travel troubles for some. Winds will continue to gust up and that’s not good news for all the trees caked in ice. Temps will start in the low 30s and then crash through the 20s from west to east.
Thursday looks cold with a few flurries or light snow showers. Highs will be in the upper teens and low 20s. Lows by Friday morning will reach the single digits and only hit the teens for high.
A set of systems will bring light snow our way this weekend, with the storm possibility being pushed into early next week. More on all that once I can get a little rest. Stress the little part of that. 🙂
I leave you with some tracking toys…
I-75 @ Winchester Road Lexington
I-75 @ Iron Works Pike Lexington
I-75 @ Clays Ferry Bridge South Between Lexington and Richmond
US 60 @ US 127 Frankfort
US 127 @ Frankfort Frankfort
I-75 at MP 36 London
I-71/I-75 at Buttermilk Pike Near Covington
I-64 @ 3rd St. Exit Louisville
Downtown Louisville @ 2nd & Broadway Louisville
I-65 @ 234 Near Bowling Green
Stay safe and take care.
Thanks Chris for all you do. No one up this way in Northeastern Ky even hinted at this happening. Your hard work is appreciated!!
We just lost our electric I really don’t like ice storms wish we had just got rain like we was suppose to get sorry I just think our weather is gone crazy
What county are you in ?
Morgan
Morgan
Thanks for the info ,have alot of family in Morgan county will check up on them
Bulk of freezing rain has moved away from Carter County. Holding at 32 here in Olive Hill. Over 2100 without power. Reports of numerous trees down on lines and across roads. Also hearing reports of creek flooding. Even with all of the freezing rain, we still have a 2 inch snow pack on the ground. Wondering how this will effect temps today.
Well then. The Fayette County Superintendent has officially lost his mind. I wish one of you meteorologists would call up his house and say “WAKE UP AND LOOK OUTSIDE!”
I am keeping my kids home. Very icy walk to bus stop, trees laying on sidewalks and in roads. And its suppose to get colder thru the day??? When they really need to call off school they don’t.
NWS just issued SWS stating that temps would be slow to climb above freezing.
For Carter County
A little ice on trees and such last night in Richmond. Roads never got bad and no power problems for my area of town. Perhaps others had it worse. Frustrating winter. One over performing “storm” to give us about 6 inches. The storm of the decade blew around the previous snow and dropped maybe 2 more inches. Other than that three or four heal nippers. Grand total of 8 to 10 inches for the season. Hard to believe that some areas close by have had twice that… But we may have had more than other areas…
Well, there is always the “weekend” storm or the “next week” storm. Becoming more and more discriminating between forecasts, guest casts an hype.
I know this event was a big deal for some, so I appreciate Chris’ efforts on everyone’s behalf.
40 and drizzle this morning in knott co
So CB nailed the forecast and BM (thankfully) was correct on the nowcast in regards to the slightly warmer air. If CB was correct, this could have been up there with 2009, or real close.
I would “thank” the warm air, but it was the reason for the ice in the first place. Looks like we are back in our more usual “big one in the distance” mode. Since those always miss Richmond anyway, no harm no foul 🙂
so u said he nailed the forecast and then said if he was correct ???cant be both ???
Referring to the nowscasting for the event while happening. CB thought we would see .75″of ice due to sustained cold. If correct, it would have been bad. BM got that right, but missed the forecast since did not expect much ice to begin with.
You semantics abusing realist 🙂
Time to move on folks. CB not seeing anything promising on the horizon. I would just as soon see a light snow system annoy someone else besides me. The deep freeze of 2014 only produced less than three inches of snow and a high heating bill in SE ky. Many are predicting a warm up in a week or two and I am more than ready. 15 plus years without an old school storm in Kentucky.
Wait, so you were only forecast on here to get 3″ of snow all winter?
We were forecast to get 12-14 inches this season and so far depending where you live in the county you may have gotten 3 inches total.
Dodger says big snows missed us to the north yet again. Just can’t get total precip and cold air coordination. Tired of the misses for me. Dodger!
Dodger, cold air was in place just that the southerly flow brings in the warm air and overrides the cold in place. Has more to do with the track of the low. If this low would have tracked further to the east to the apps before heading North Ky would have been in the higher snow amounts. Dodger! Where is Dodger anyhow?
Lives with Roger.
I think Roger is a ventriloquist and Dodger is his talking dummy 🙂
Ahhhhhh, you guys make Dodger feel welcome! And, yes, Bjenks – “cold air coordination” means cold enough for snow through the column. Dodger knows weather!
Good to know what cold air coordination means. Still want to know where Dodger is located.
Yes CB nailed this one. We are very lucking that temps did not drop to the 20’s and the rain lighter. Would have been a repeat of 2009 just like bubba said. Temps near freezing and heavy rain did not allow for this to freeze over on the roads. I honestly expected JCPS to go to a delay and not postpone school today. I was out from midnight until 2am throwing salt and the secondary and side streets were fine. Leaving now to check lots. Getting colder all day so the trees may hold for a day or two. Will make for good photo ops. Be safe everyone.
Sprinkling and 40 in London.
I wish there were no power outages at all, but at least they were minimal around the Lex and surrounding areas. For those of you who did lose power, I hope it is restored very soon.
Another bust in our favor, as the ice didn’t not reach the level of impending doom discussed last night here and on the Twitter spew. If you were watching the WKYT ‘DefenderBING’ radar last night around 10 to midnight, you were able to actually see the Berea dome in action while the rest of the county was getting ice.
Wow – Crazy after having over an inch of rain that the snow pack is STILL here in Lexington.
So so just a quick question on the weekend storm. Is this storm likely to put down snow here in WV? Local mets still seem to think we might be in for a good snow.
thanks Chris- you’re the bomb diddy!
great forecasting and now casting to boot….
we lost power for about 4-5 hours, not too bad.
big thanks to KU for the great work they do.
hope this Winter still has a big SNOW left in her!
Up to 45 and a soggy mess in knott co. Unless we can get an app runner in next week or so I expect winter to be on life support down here in seky
I suppose success with the forecast and nowcast is relative for where you live. CB did a great job with my area (Hardin county). Much better than NWS and local mets. Thank you CB for all that you do and for providing this as a tool for learning. I’m soooo ready for spring!
Can anyone tell me what the weekend storm is looking like? Also after this upcoming storm your thoughts on winter coming to an end?
Since CB is catching up on his z’s, can anyone else give us an update on this weekend’s system? Have any of us still got a chance to see any decent snow from it? I’m not seeing much said about it here, or anywhere else for that matter, so I’m guessing not so much.
Btw… I have a tree on my garage and my husband’s boat!!!!
do the State Farm jingle and see if your agent appears 🙂
We lost our power at 9pm and got it back on at 2am. So, that wasn’t too bad. Thank you to LG&E for being out in this mess all night and today. The house temp was 56 when the heat kicked back on.
The ice has made our tree in the front yard bend all the way to the ground. The same thing happened in 2009, and it survived. I’m not sure if the tree will come back up from this or not. Let’s hope so. It looks pretty sad.
Overall, we had 1/2″ ice in NE Louisville, and maybe 1/4″ of snow.
As I am typing this, light snow has started to fall (it is not showing up on the radar, but, it is coming down). The temp has dropped from 32.1 to 29.1 in the past 4 hours.
From what I’ve gathered the weekend storm don’t look real promising
Who’s ready for an old fashioned blowtorch?? It’s coming next week, friends.
Not to doubt you, but haven’t you been saying this a lot lately? And it really hasn’t happened has it? No disrespect meant, but your blowtorch batting average is pretty low.
remembered what happened last time? I think he using this as reverse psychology that or trying to become the boy that cried wolf
There has been a few boys crying wolf lately.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/610day/610temp.new.gif
Eventually things will have to return closer to normal and get temps closer to average. It may not happen, but I look for things to warm up by mid February. Law of averages says that eventually we will get on the other side of average to even things up a little. Last year we had a mild winter and it stayed cool all the way up to mid-May. With this year being cold I hope spring gets here soon.
law of averages may kick in during the summer i hope not though
Oh please stop with the blowtorch thing since you started that nonsense talk its been completely the opposite. Louisville mets says staying below freezing for high temps right through the extended. So no blowtorch here unfortunately. I love winter but I have had more than my fill of bone chilling cold,snow,freezing rain frozen pipes etc etc. My electric and gas bill I just got it doubled.
Weekend storm has been trending much weaker and way off the east coast for the past two days. Some mets think it will come back but that might be just wish-casting.
I see precipitation falling from the sky from my window in Lex, but not sure if its drizzle of flurries? Can’t tell or go outside, can someone tell me?
Flurries. I just walked across the courtyard to the other office building.
Today is National Weatherperson Day. Saw on the news that Bluebell ice cream made a special flavor just for our meteorologists. Pretty neat. Thanks, Chris, for your hard work and dedication in keeping us safe and informed.
This has really been an amazing winter. We’ve had multiple very cold arctic shots – some below zero which we don’t see ONCE during most winters. We’ve also had multiple storm events. Yes, I know most big snow has gone to the north of us but I’m pleased with the chances. Perhaps Mr Bailey can “persuade” one southern storm to work out for all of us. 🙂 I hope he’s getting caught up on his sleep!
Thanks, Chris! We appreciate all you do! We have about a half an inch of ice coating our snow pack and the temps have hovered around freezing since yesterday. Everyone stay safe and warm!
I have my Electric bill from January 🙂
if you are on Jackson energy or Cumberland valley recc I really feel sorry for you 🙁
Cumberland. It was 20 bucks more than December
that’s not bad … my daughter is on Jackson and she just got hers and it went up over $150 ….
My bill was 130 😀
Bastardi argues the patterns supports a storm over the weekend regardless of what the models say. Of course, he’s been wrong before, but this winter has wanted to be cold and stormy. On top of that, Accublunder, still predicts a storm in the region over the weekend.
GFS for Sunday has our storm out to sea
http://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/NCOMAGWEB/appcontroller/Image.php?fhr=093&image=data%2Fgfs%2F12%2Fgfs_namer_093_10m_wnd_precip.gif&model=gfs&area=namer¶m=10m_wnd_precip&group=Model+Guidance&imageSize=M
What did the GFS and the other models have for this past Sunday’s storm just three days out? Not a crack at you, just saying the models flip and they flop.
I’m not saying its right or wrong but it showed this with all runs yesterday as well
That’s Crack-U weather.
Something tries to develop but it’s to far east and out to sea..With the way the model’s have been this winter you just never know..Whatever happen to the day’s when you could track a system 5 days out and it was right 90% of the time???Guess those day’s are gone like truly good winter’s around here..
Hopefully Joe Bastardi is correct. He may very well be wrong but I will trust his thoughts over any model, any day. So, at least for now, I will still have hope.
Happy Weather-person CB!!!!!!! You rock.
East Frankfort has a few limbs down but power stayed on thankfully, I for one have had my fill of winter weather, I know some folks has missed lots of the snow down state but my hood is at about 18-20 inches for the year, above normal if it doesn’t snow again this winter!
Also 2 Ice storms not included the snow totals, Great Job Chris on storm coverage and forecast 🙂
We lost power about 10 last night. I heard the trees snapping and believe I heard a transformer off in the distance blow. Took my two girls to bed with me and my husband and we snuggled in for the night. Didn’t get too bad in the house. Power was restored between 230 and 4. I was up at 230 and it was still out then up at 4 and it was on.
Don’t know about you guys but I love the silence of winter. There’s no movement out and there seems to be a calm serenity to the snow.
Still without power here in greenup..absolutely freezing in my house..all bundled up by the fireplace…it got bad here..trees everywhere..transformer blowed out..crazt
Saying power won’t be back on until Saturday morning 🙁
Boo! If it panned out the way CB thought last night, there would be thousands more in the same boat. I know this is little if any consolation, but could have been longer if a lot more places were impacted.
Happy Weather Persons Day Chris.
And to all of you Arm Chair mets out there.
Happy “WannaBe” Weather Persons Day….
Weekend into next week will be interesting…
WLKY met just shared that the upcoming weekend weather might bring in about an inch of snow. Doesn’t sound like a big deal.
That’s what it looks like now. Plenty time to change.
Snowing at a pretty good clip here in Lex, already a dusting on the ground. The thing is, the flakes are super tiny! Never seen it snow so hard with such tiny flakes
And its blowing around too