Good afternoon, gang. It’s all systems go for a major winter storm delivering a glancing blow of snow to southeastern parts of Kentucky. The snow will pick up in coverage and intensity later this afternoon through tonight and could lay down several inches.
Here’s a look at the latest warnings and advisories for the southeast…
This is all part of a massive winter storm impacting the deep south and east coast. Take a look at all the warnings…
My thoughts on accumulations have not changed with the highest amounts along the Virginia border. There will be a super duper sharp cutoff on the accumulating snows. All that’s left for us to do is track it all. I have your tracking hookup…
Harlan
I-75 at MP 36 London
I-75 at MP 23 Corbin
The next winter weather maker arrives on Valentine’s Day and is likely to deliver accumulating snow to much of the region and could cause travel issues. Another system dives in Saturday night into Sunday morning.
Take care.
Thanks Chris. How about a traffic cam at the Cumberland Gap Tunnel in Middlesboro as this is the prime area for snowfall?
Nevermind….I see those cams aren’t available online from KY511.
Nothing for Laurel Co? Yippee!
LOVE IT…in Wayne County no advisory…but we have one to the east & south of us. We couldn’t buy snow from an eskimo this winter.
Knoxville has just made the changeover to snow. Here comes the snow, east Tennessee and far southeastern Kentucky!
That is a very impressive watch/warning map for the eastern part of the country.
Interesting that virga can stay in the air when it’s a “heavy” band of precip on radar. Laurel County should be seeing some snow now. Waiting……:)
It may be a while yet its been showing for Knox for 4 hrs or so and still nothing on the ground 37 degrees and Dew Point is at 23
We miss the big ones here in Charleston, WV while all the small, nuisance snows hit. Story of the last decade of winters it seems. I think Chris has been excellent this winter on his forecasts. Really only one bust, but everyone did for the one last week in my area. By the way, I know I’m crazy wishing for a large snowstorm. Probably has to do with the few years I spent in Denver. There were three storms that dumped over two feet and a few more that we’re close to a foot in my two years there. Really miss those winters.
I feel your pain all the time. I get so tired of these 2 inch or less deals. I can sum up this Winter in two words “wasted cold”. I am so tired of heavy rain events where the temp stays between 34 and 36. That’s really a downer. And we have gotten too many of those to count. Charleston is “The Place Where Snowstorms Come to Die”.
I’m glad some folks in other parts of Kentucky are getting in on the snow. Lexington now has had 3 inches of snow on the ground for ten consecutive days–the longest stretch since January of 1996! If we officially have 3 inches on the ground at 7:00 A.M. tomorrow it will be the longest stretch since December 16-28 1989.
This winter will probably not be as cold and snowy as 2009-2010 or 2010-2011 due to a mild and relatively snowless December, However, the past 40 days have been as cold as anything we’ve seen since the late 70’s.
still nothing on the ground please don’t jinx us LoL
Not trying to do that to you Andy! Finally some melting is occurring here. You can see some bare ground in the sunny areas. The icicles are very impressive though and I doubt the snow will be totally gone from the shade for awhile. Not sure what the official measurement will be at 7:00 tomorrow–I’m guessing 2 or 3 inches.
You folks have really a lot more Winter than us in the Hunt/Chas area of WV. We have been worn out with 34 to 36 degree rainstorms here. Then bitter cold and flurries. Nothing substantial.
It would’ve been twice as long if that winter storm earlier would’ve panned out with 6-10 inches for Lexington.
Not sure about that–I think temps in the 50’s and 60’s next week would have happened regardless of the depth of the snowpack and would have dropped it down to less than 3 inches. The record is from 1978–January 15-February 9, 3 inches or more greater. 26 days!
Probably but it seems melting 8″ of snow even when it’s 50-60° is still tough. Not tough to melt snow, but tough to melt 5″ of snow in one day. But then again, I am probably wrong.
Well, we had 5 inches on March 5 of 2012. It was gone by March 7 after a high in the 60’s on March 6.
The only, and pretty major difference is that ground temps are way below freezing due to all the previous cold. A few days before that, temps were in the 70’s! So that’s another factor to take into consideration.
Chris Mercer, I have seen the snow laying in Lexington. Funny part is, even when we get a couple of inches here in Somerset, as soon as it stops, it’s gone. And this one is missing us too, except for maybe a few flurries .
By the Vhris Bailey, thank you fir the wonderful job you do to keep us informed. Have a great Wednesday, everyone
Praying for our neighbors in the south. Ice just isn’t fun at all.
Unfortunately, a dire situation in South Carolina.
Areas between Columbia SC and Charleston SC are reporting nearly an inch of ice already……and it’s still coming down. Needless to say, power outages left and right, much destruction. Could be 1.25 to even 1.5 inches or more in spots before it’s done. I can’t imagine what that is like. IIRC, I got a “mere” .75 inch when I lived in Indiana during the 2009 ice storm which was bad enough.
We need to count our lucky stars.
The NWS office in Wilmington NC lost power due to the ice, they are now on backup generator.
I had 2 inches of ice in Madisonville, KY when I was there in January of 2009. No one in the city had power for 5 days–it was 14-17 days for some just outside the city. I think they will fare better though–we had 4 inches of snow fall on top of the ice and then temps fell to 0. They are supposed to be in the 60’s by Saturday.
Small world, Chris. I was just up the road from you (Evansville IN) at the time.
That must had been rough. I do recall Madisonville being particularly hard hit in 2009 (and Madisonville also has the Nov 2005 tornado [an F4] which fortunately missed most of town). Outages in Evansville in 2009 were more spotty. My juice was out less than a day, perhaps partly because my apartment complex had underground lines.
My future wife experienced the 1994 ice event in Bowling Green as a kid. While there was much tree destruction, she said it was amazing that the many snapped limbs at the top of the trees were largely gone and healed in just a few years. Nature sure can repair things in a relatively short time.
I was there only from January 2008-November 2009. I missed the F4 tornado. The rest of the time I’ve been in Central KY.
You might as well change your thoughts. Nothing is gonna happen here in SE KY.
The Ohio Valley area in Kenova,WV…..once again, always the bridesmaid and never the bride…..sigh……
Why don’t I see any snow?? The map is showing it.
How long before the snow actually starts reaching the ground in Knox County?
For such a huge event, there sure isn’t any traffic on here. Oh, boo hoo…central and western ky didn’t get a whopper. Nothing to see here, huh? lol 😉
thats kinda how it is 😛 and there isn’t anything in Knox either
LOL, Andy…us poor folk here in SE/KY get excited about snow, too, but I came here looking for info, and bam! there’s nothing..lol.. 😛
It’s all in the population demo demographics 😉
It is a huge event! It is sunny and 32 in the Lexington metro. Time to break out the shorts!
Snow reports coming in 15 miles south of Middlesboro now in Tazewell.
The Radar/Tracker shows snow on us here but its not falling? Wonder why?
Just sayin’ that the Radar/Tracker is showing snow RIGHT ON US here in southeastern KY But NO snow is falling? I am kinda lost? Is something wrong?
Just between the Carolinas and Georgia, over 250,000 customers affected. I’m only using the main providers (Georgia Power and Duke/Progress Energy). There are perhaps additional thousands without power counting the various co-ops.
Im sitting in Louisville watching on the sidelines pulling for you guys in SE Ky. I hope you guys get 5 feet to a giraffes neck of snow.
Well thats a little over kill but i would still take it lol
Seems the flow is a little more due east than expected by the forecast. Anybody else seeing that?
I will take it lol.Andy you better let me know when that snow starts.
Nothing yet here but my old stomping grounds of Raliegh Nc is getting hammered heres a link to a webcam there.http://www.wral.com/weather/image/1001636/
The 2009 storm in Kentucky is listed as one of the “top” ten ice storms for the country. That as noted had snow and Arctic air that followed it. Double whammy. Triple, counting the snow.
Hopefully the warm up will help speed recovery.
moderate to heavy snow here in east tn…anywhere from 2-4″ on the ground in most areas… and 2-4″ more expected…
Hi Tim send it to us.
Snowing here in Middlesboro now.
Just started snowing in Dorton, Pike county.
Oddly enough it has snowed here for 4 hours except it don’t seem to be accumulating…Matter of fact i can’t even see the snow on my deck..Oh well,maybe I’m blind..
Not at all looking good for us London folks. Maybe a glancing blow, if that. Maybe we can get an ankle biter on Valentines Day. After that, I’m ready to wrap things up until next Fall/Winter. Pretty disappointing when the snow belt is in central ky, and big ticket storms hit the Carolina’s. As they say in Cubs land, there’s always next year lol
Amazing how different it is between there and here in the Lexington Metro. We’ve currently endured our longest stretch of 3 plus inches of snow on the ground since 1989 and the coldest beginning to a year since 1978.
Call it wishful hope but it almost looks like this thing is coming further west. For what it’s worth we were just put under a wwa here in charleston for 2-4 inches.
Even those couple snowey years around 2010 or so never had snow on the ground this long, we got many snows but they never lasted this long, 1989 and the late 70s are the only ones that compare in frankfort area!
This post should have been under Chris Mercer 🙂
Look at this baby! We’ll be dealing with these soon here in ky. Its a squall line in FL! http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tbw/
NWS is mentioning the thunder word for Monday/ Tuesday, temps mid 60s by mid to late week, I think winter is going bye, bye, sooner than later!
Early spring sounds great!
I’m with you! I’d love some spring weather now. Nice, sunny 70° days and soothing thunderstorms… 🙂 If we get more winter weather, I’m cool with that, but if not, its alright also.
Its snowing here! pretty light at the moment.
not going reach much farther than te BORDER Counties. nailed this one.
so much for being Humble rolo
Andy have you got snow yet so far nothing in my part of Pikeville?
Just now starting
So did CB and about 95% of the mets in the country 😉 Nobody had this beyond counties and even my lame butt called the same thing. We expect the same candor when you un-nail them too 😉
Heavy snow falling here now, already a good dusting on the ground.
Flurries to very light in middlesboro … Looking at an inch or two at best I’m thinking … Disappointing .
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
343 PM EST WED FEB 12 2014
.SHORT TERM…(THIS EVENING THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT)
ISSUED AT 343 PM EST WED FEB 12 2014
VIRGA DEVELOPED AND SPREAD NORTH OVER THE FORECAST AREA DURING THE
DAY. SURFACE REPORTS SHOWED PRECIP STILL HOLDING MAINLY TO OUR SOUTH
IN TN EARLY IN THE AFTERNOON…WITH JUST LOCALIZED REPORTS OF SNOW
REACHING THE GROUND IN LETCHER COUNTY OF KY UNDER A HEAVIER RADAR
RETURN BY 3 PM. THE SNOW SHOULD FILL IN AND SPREAD NORTH INTO KY
DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE NAM AND GFS ARE NOW IN
RELATIVELY GOOD AGREEMENT FOR THE SYSTEM…AND HAVE USED A BLEND OF
THE TWO. THE RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION OF AN UPPER JET WILL PROVIDE MID-
UPPER LEVEL LIFT THIS EVENING. THIS WILL PULL OUT TO THE EAST
TONIGHT. HOWEVER…AS THE STORM SYSTEM DEVELOPS…THE COMMA HEAD
REGION EXTENDING BACK UNDER THE UPPER TROUGH WILL PERSIST OVER THE
APPALACHIANS…WITH WEAK WARM AIR ADVECTION IN THE LOW-MID LEVELS.
THIS WILL BRING A CONTINUATION OF LIGHTER SNOW OVERNIGHT…WITH SNOW
TAPERING OFF FROM WEST TO EAST FROM AROUND DAWN THROUGH NOON. THERE
SHOULD BE A SHARP GRADIENT IN SNOWFALL. VALLEY TEMPS ABOVE FREEZING
INITIALLY LATE TODAY WILL CUT INTO ACCUMULATIONS A BIT AS THE SNOW
STARTS NEAR THE VA BORDER…BUT EVAPORATIONAL COOLING WILL BRING
READINGS BELOW FREEZING AS SNOW CONTINUES. WITH FAIRLY COLD AIR ALOFT
DURING MOST OF THE EVENT…THE SNOW SHOULD BE FAIRLY DRY ONCE SURFACE
TEMPS COOL OFF. HAVE USED A RATIO OF ABOUT 13:1. 4-6 INCH TOTALS CAN
BE EXPECTED NEAR THE VA BORDER…ESPECIALLY ON RIDGES. AMOUNTS SHOULD
TAPER BACK TO ABOUT AN INCH IN A CORRIDOR FROM WHITLEY TO JOHNSON
COUNTIES…WITH A LIKELIHOOD OF LITTLE OR NO ACCUMULATION NW OF
THERE.
Dodger is predicting a rough stormy spring! And the winter of 2014-2015 will be historic! Dodger!
Historic in what way? Warm and snowless? Or cold and snowy? 🙂
I agree on winter next year. Cold and snowy. Not for south central Kentucky, of course. They will just mainly get the cold 😉 …… 🙁
Why should it differ from this year
Snowing finally in Whitley county!!!
Just found a pagan ritual and I have the ingredients made from Duke and UT fans (don’t ask!) , let’s see if we can push the system a little more Andy Rose’s way.
Hoping Andy gets some snow, I think you will tonight, show southeast KY some love snow gods 🙂
Friday could be a 1-3 inch snowfall with the clipper system coming in. Saturday night maybe another half inch. Next week 50’s maybe a couple of 60 degree days. After that signs are pointing to a return to snowy and cold weather.
I’ll take some clipper mania. Clippers usually mean no ice!
Yea, clippers usually ride within the cold sector of fronts and troughs. It’s almost never around the freezing mark.
It has started snowing in downtown Pikeville.
Light snowfall in Laurel County
Just now starting
You better be ready to take some pictures/video of this rare event! Post ’em later.
when there is enough to make it worth taking a pic i will
The snow on the radar is inching up so close to Ashland! 😀
Snowing here.
No snow yet on northern end of Clay County. Had some reports its snowing in town.(Manchester) Anyone seeing snow in Clay?
hmmm, its starting to rotate back in from east. business look to pick up were it snowing now. snowing in southern Clay Co.
Would that be Pax Junior? Well, if the lame weather media can lamely name winter storms, we can also name the spin offs too.
Snow not falling in the Belfry area of Pike County yet.
Just started snowing here in Carrie in knott co
if ur getting SNOW now u are iun for 4-6 inches at least. it set up rotating back in. get ur POPCORN READY
you are hilarious rolo
How is it rotating? This system is being pushed hard up to the north east. This not like a clipper that tends to have a boomerang effect.
Do you all ride the rolocoaster with your hands up or do you hold on for dear life?
Although I do see the westward rotation on the southeast radar.
Not seeing any rotation, but if two see it (you & Rolocoaster) and I do not- I call it for the majority! 🙂
We shall name the spin off: Pax Junior, in lame honor of AccuWarmer and The Warming Channel and their ratings hungry winter weather naming.
Nothing in middlesboro
Probably got around an inch on the ground already. Harlan cam seems broken btw.
Not even a flurry yet in north Clay County while all my friends are getting snow in other parts of Clay!
Pouring the snow in the Topmost area of Knott County.
Just starting to flurry in northern Clay Co. Are you guys in southern
Clay getting any snow?
Absolutely pouring in Middlesboro now. News said between 7pm-2am will be the heaviest snows for us.
Yes, it’s coming down at a good rate.
Crazy how it started right at dark. Sticking to everything now. Good heavy wet snow. Hope electric stays on. 5-9″ woukd be a lot of weight.
Very light snow in Carrie, snowed at a good clip for about 30 mins but is melting now as fast as it is falling. Farther east is gonna get a pretty good bit
Just shy of 2 inches in Dorton of Pike County.
Big ole Silver Dollar flakes now here.