Good Sunday, folks. Life is full of ups and downs and so is the world of weather. That’s especially true for the weather of the next week and change. Winter is holding on as the change to spring slowly shows up across the bluegrass state.
Speaking of winter, some areas may be getting a touch of it early today with some light rain and light snow. This fast-moving system will throw some of this action across the southern half of the state to start the day. Here’s regional radar to see what’s out there…
Skies will clear this afternoon as the sun returns. Temps will hit the 40s for highs on a day where 60 is about the norm. Monday looks similar with highs in the low 40s and lows in the 20s with some increase in clouds.
Those clouds are ahead of a bigger push of winter that shows up on Tuesday. A band of light snow will be possible as a system dives in from the northwest and a bigger storm develops well to our southeast…
That could bring a touch of accumulation to a few spots, but doesn’t look like a big deal. Highs will be in the 30s for Tuesday and Wednesday with lows hitting the teens to start Wednesday.
Milder air will swing in for Thursday as temps make a run at 60. Friday looks mild with the increasing chance for showers and thunderstorms along a cold front swinging in…
Colder air pours in behind this front and takes our temps from above normal to below normal in 24 hours…
I continue to see signs of a prolonged period of above normal temps coming as we say hello to the month of April. The GFS Ensembles like the chances…
Notice there is another big shot of cold waiting in the wings across the high plains. That may be the last of the bunch before spring tries to turn very warm for the second half of April into May.
Have a great Sunday and take care.
Well that doesn’t sound to bad.A couple more little cold snaps and maybe Spring will arrive.Compared to the January temps this round won’t seem like much at all.Sounds like each round of cool won’t hang around long.At least it appears we have topped the hill and now heading toward Spring….Finally.
don’t make me post pics that i have 3 weeks ago of flowers blooming 😛
Each cold blast seems to be getting progressively weaker as well. I think I can survive two more brief cold spells, especially if it is a prelude to an above average late April – early May.
Sweet. Ready to grill!
At least there’s some light at the end of the long, cold tunnel.
I wonder if that last cold snap in the plains will usher in an increase in severe weather season? This has been one of the quietest March’s nationally for tornadoes and severe weather due to the cold pattern.
There’s plenty of cold air in place for the warm spring air to fight with this severe weather season. If it sticks around, I’d bet on an active season.
Real men grill in any temp. Don’t be a girly-Ham. 😉
If the past is any indication, CB saying a winter system “doesn’t look like a big deal” means that it will have a good chance to have a significant impact on traffic in at least Fayette County. If you’re a fellow scanner monitor for morning and afternoon traffic, you know this to be true. Fayette drivers will take what little nature gives them and make the most of it in the worst way.
I agree with this. A small coating of ice/snow is more dangerous than a big snow storm, from a traffic perspective. People in SUV’s think they can drive on ice. I remember my first car–I read the owner’s manual religiously–it was a ’74 Lincoln Mark VII. It said “On Ice slow down to 5-10 MPH.” Doubt much has changed!
ABsolutely. TUesday morning rush hour could be fun.
LD I would grill in any temp honestly. I need to get it out of storage. 🙂
Ups and downs. So dramatic. Wouldn’t the days get boring awful quick if the days were 80 and sunny from now until July?
Not at all. I, for one, would love sunny and 80 for the rest of my life.
Sunny and warm = great weather
Cold and gloomy = miserable
Looks like the drive-by snows are done. No salt = winning!
Not a bad March at all in southern Ky. Warmer days are outnumbering the cooler days by quite a few. Last year was just the opposite. May end up running a little below normal because of those couple of days that didn’t leave the low 20s but overall most highs have been 50 plus. I will take it.
Temps across southern Ky are running 2 to 4 degrees colder than normal. That’s pretty far below normal with another cold shot moving in.
I agree
Yeah, This is turning out to be a great spring for the most part.
Sun is out here setting at 47 might be another 50 degree day here in Carrie
We’ve cracked 50 here in Carrie
How ’bout them Cats!!!
Thanks Chris, great tweets and great work here as well.
I’d say the SEC is rocking in NCAA play, both the men and the women!
If the Kentucky women win tomorrow, they will be in the womens’ Sweet Sixteen! They could be joined by other SEC squads like South Carolina and Tennessee.
And they said the SEC men were weak; well, Kentucky, Tennessee and Florida are all headed to the mens’ Sweet Sixteen!
And if UK beats UL we might see UT in the Elite 8. 😉
And in an effort to remain ontopic (weatherwise that is, as tempting as chatting about sports this time of year can be 😉 ), today’s highs across KY ranged from 39 in northern KY to 53 in south-southern KY; this according to the KY Mesonet.
High of 54 here in Nashville TN.
grrrr…..south-central KY (Bowling Green/Scottsville area), not south-southern!
Hard to believe it’s been exactly two years. Ok, it was just two little EF1 twisters near Louisville. But these twisters unexpectedly developed from relatively small storms that lacked even lightning.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk/?n=march_23_2012_tornadoes
Several of us here on KWC tracked these small tornadic cells that day. One of the twisters came within only a few miles of the Louisville Terminal Doppler Radar unit (used by the FAA) near Mt Washington KY which got some interesting close-up scans.