{"id":47600,"date":"2021-02-08T12:09:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T17:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=47600"},"modified":"2021-02-08T12:09:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T17:09:25","slug":"winter-storm-threat-tuesday-night-friday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=47600","title":{"rendered":"Winter Storm THREAT Tuesday Night-Friday Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good afternoon, everyone. Let’s begin with a Winter Storm THREAT for the entire region Tuesday night through Friday morning. This is for the potential of significant amounts of freezing rain, sleet and snow. The overall pattern through next week is likely to be memorable for much of the region.<\/p>\n

The first system moving through this evening and early Tuesday continues to target areas of northern\/north-central Kentucky with a snowfall. A Winter Weather Advisory is out for this area. This setup may also have a touch of freezing rain on the southern edge of this near the Interstate 64 corridor. I’ll keep the First Call map for now…<\/p>\n

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I will update that as needed later today.<\/p>\n

Now to the Winter Storm THREAT. Here’s a preliminary look at how things may shake out…<\/p>\n

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That’s the rough first estimate and I will be updating those lines as the high impact system becomes more clear. The current trend is for a colder solution to play out and that’s exactly how things usually work when arctic air is involved.<\/p>\n

Here’s what the early morning run of the EURO looked like through 7pm Thursday…<\/p>\n

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The freezing rain accumulation from that run…<\/p>\n

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Here’s the snowfall that includes tonight’s action…<\/p>\n

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The new GFS is also showing this colder solution pressing the overall impact farther south…<\/p>\n

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That goes all the way through Friday morning. Here’s how the GFS sees the total amounts of wintry precipitation…<\/p>\n

Freezing Rain<\/p>\n

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Sleet<\/p>\n

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The snow includes tonight’s action…<\/p>\n

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Does this whole setup continue to sink farther south as the models get a better handle on just how strong the arctic air is? That’s certainly possible.<\/p>\n

After this system, we aren’t even close to being done. Another winter storm may target us this weekend with another possible early next week…<\/p>\n

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I will have the latest on WKYT-TV starting at 4pm then again on KWC this evening. Here are your tracking toys for the afternoon…<\/p>\n

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