Good Thursday, everyone. A monster of a winter storm continues to roll up the east coast and this is delivering a pounding snow to parts of southeastern Kentucky. As that snowfall winds down, we turn our attention to the next snowfall that rolls across the state on Valentine’s Day. Yep… some snow for all the lovers out there.

Let’s start with the snow we have across eastern and southeastern Kentucky. Some areas in the southeast will be measuring double digit snow amounts before this winds down early this afternoon. Hopefully me fear of power issues won’t come to pass, but that is a lot of wet snow hitting the mountains. Here’s regional radar to track the impressive action…

The system working across the Tennessee Valley on Valentine’s Day is likely to be a fairly widespread snow producer for much of the state. Here’s how the GFS sees it…

GFS

My first impression of this is a 2″-4″ snowfall, but it has the potential to grow into something more. I will get you a first call out later today.

The air behind that could send us into the single digits by Saturday morning. That will be just in time for one more light snow system to swing through by the evening hours. That one could lay down additional accumulations.

We start to break out of this pattern by next week as temps take off by the middle and end of the week. I think it’s only a spring fling and the GFS Ensembles show why…

Euro 2The last week of the month into early March has the look of producing some decent winter systems.

Take care.