Good evening, gang. Old man winter will be taking a break for the upcoming week, but he is nowhere close to calling it quits. As a matter of fact, things can turn harsh again for the final week of the month into early March. That idea has been talked about on the blog for the past few weeks.
The new week starts with chilly showers moving in for Monday afternoon and evening. Highs in the low and mid 40s will be as good as it gets.
Tuesday and Wednesday look ok with seasonal temps.
Thursday is the best day we have to actually turn “mild”. Highs will head toward 60 degrees on a strong southwesterly wind ahead of a cold front. That front arrives Thursday night with a line of showers and thunderstorms…
A few strong storms will be possible ahead of that front, but it doesn’t look to have a ton of instability available to tap. We’ll keep a close eye on it. The air coming in behind it is much colder and sets the stage for another storm to work across the region by next Saturday. The European Model has a wintry look to it…
Even colder air follows that and sets the stage for the possibility of arctic air returning a few days late. The European has a wave of low pressure developing along this arctic boundary…
Check out how far below normal temps are currently looking for early the following week…
The folks who’ve been yelling “winter’s over” since Thanksgiving will finally get it right… in April. 😉
Take care.
Interesting
Thanks Chris! maybe there is hope yet.
That is certainly not the news I wanted to hear. Well, if it’s gonna be cold again, might as well snow a lot. I hate the whole cold but no snow thing. (BTW, Indianapolis is already at their snowiest winter on record (Dec. through Feb.) And their third snowiest snow season! All they need is a little less than 7″ for a record breaking snow season (July 1 through June 30)
Spring wont come until God tells it to come and u never know wht its gonna b next month it could b 80 degrees!! Just predict the weather for this week please!!:-)
thanks Chris.
yikes! Old Man Winter not going quietly….
this coming warm up will be a nice break though.
I told a buddy yesterday that we would go from thunderstorms to snow over a weekend with sixty degree temp. swing. He told me that I was crazy. Like the looks of next weekend storm….
Thanks for the update CB…
I hope you are just joking about waiting to April for a warm up. The last post was early March, are you now seeing the cold hanging tough all the way to the end of March. Last year March was 10 degrees below normal for average highs. No way do I want to wait until April for real spring to get here. I may just have to end up moving south. No way do I want to live in a climate that is cold six months out of the year.
The cold doesn’t bother me. I’ll take a day with arctic air anytime over a day with a “heat index”. Oh, and BTW, bring on the snow too. Southern KY has gotten robbed all winter long in the snow category.
CLR I totally agree about snow in southern KY. But if more storms are coming and going to leave us out, I would just as soon see some warmer weather. Or maybe our friends in central and northern KY will shoo it down in our direction.
I enjoy the outdoors too much to want it cold all year. Another thing I don’t like about the cold, is having to put on and take off clothes multiple times a day. At least in the summer you can pretty much throw on a tshirt and a pair of shorts and wear it morning and night. Cuts down on the laundry. lol
Thanks Chris. I sure my heat pump will like taking a small break. Next weekend looks interesting, as does The Thursday system. Of course, You are talking rain with that one. Ha! We always get the rain. Whatever I am going to enjoy each day as it comes. Have a great evening all and thanks again Chris. You can take a breathe now. 🙂
Please Chris, tell me that the entire month of March isn’t going to be cold. Can you please tell us Mr Bailey when you think we will warm up? My 16 year old daughter plays fast pitch softball in Bowling Green Ky,and since we are outside all the time,I wasn’t wanting a repeat of last year. Will you please let me know your thoughts CB? Thank you sir.
Anybody who believes there is a human being on this earth who can tell you anything out past a week is dreaming.
Certainly not the specifics but I think that it’s very possible to forecast the general ballpark. The models have been very good at predicting the temps several weeks out in advance. They have been forecasting cold nearly all winter and for the most part, it’s panned out.
I would argue that in summer, it’s very possible to forecast a week or more out. I’ll go out on a limb and feel pretty good about my forecast for the first week of July…it will be hot and humid with highs near 90 and a chance of afternoon thunderstorms.
I’ve had at least 1 inch of snow on the ground since February 2. A pretty impressive streak of snow cover but no where near the record. In January and February of 1978, Louisville went 49 days in a row with at least 1 inch of snow on the ground.
With each update our warm up seems to be dwindling, hopefully a couple days with sun and 60 will happen before the cold comes back, the gloom and doom of winter is getting old now!
Ha! I hope “Old Man Winter” dehydrates and withers soon! However, your “dig” at all those who have declared this winter a “no show” (since November) is funny!
April?!? I suddenly feel like Fred Sanford.
I read the post again and it mentions early March once again… I was about to panic for a moment. Hopefully CB was just taking a little jab at the blowtorch crowd that said January was going to be above normal. Im thinking he is just indicating that cold will be around at least some of the time in March. It would he hard to match last years cold March. Felt like February.
Dodger says we’ve had big March snows! Owensboro had 12″ March 19th/20th of 1996. Remember it well. Dodger!
Happen to run across this at a Nashville weather site..Figured Bubba or some more on the blog would enjoy…The Dome lives…
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