{"id":46157,"date":"2020-12-23T12:13:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T17:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=46157"},"modified":"2020-12-23T12:13:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T17:13:32","slug":"winter-storm-watch-eastern-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=46157","title":{"rendered":"Winter Storm Watch Eastern Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good afternoon, everyone. We continue to track an arctic front toward the bluegrass state and that’s going to bring big time changes tonight into Christmas Eve. As low pressure develops along the front, we get an enhanced snow band across eastern Kentucky. This is the main area we’ve been highlighting and that area is now under a Winter Storm Watch.<\/p>\n

Here’s a look at the current Watch…<\/p>\n

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One question I have is… Where the heck are the Winter Weather Advisories surrounding that all the way back into central Kentucky? You’re talking about rain to a period of freezing rain\/sleet and the potential for a light snowfall on top of that… ON CHRISTMAS EVE. These things used to be no-brainers. Remember, our sole purpose is to take care of the people of this region and alert them to any potential issues. Period.<\/p>\n

The Weather Prediction Center is a part of NOAA\/NWS and here’s their current risk map for 4″+ of snow on Thursday…<\/p>\n

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The Slight Risk goes all the way back west of Lexington with the Moderate Risk for all of eastern Kentucky and the High Risk for far southeastern Kentucky.<\/p>\n

There’s a major split right now in the forecast models with the GFS and NAM being more progressive, but also showing better chances for sleet and freezing rain. That cuts down the snow totals back into central Kentucky.<\/p>\n

NAM snow map…<\/p>\n

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Check out the sleet…<\/p>\n

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The freezing rain…<\/p>\n

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The GFS has similar sleet and freezing rain maps. Here’s the snow map…<\/p>\n

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The Canadian Models continue to be in the snow camp and farther west with this…<\/p>\n

Short Range Canadian<\/p>\n

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CANADIAN<\/p>\n

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The Canadian family has the support of the RAP…<\/p>\n

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Given everything I’ve shown you, I’m not comfortable making any changes to the earlier First Call map. I want to see the late afternoon runs to see what they come up with before I make changes. There’s nothing worse than making a change to only change it back to what the original call was.<\/p>\n

I will have the latest on WKYT starting at 4pm then again on KWC later today.<\/p>\n

I leave you with your radars to track the arctic front and rains in from the west…<\/p>\n

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