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<\/p>\nGood Friday, everyone. A major winter storm is on the way to Kentucky Sunday into Monday, bringing significant amounts of snow, sleet and freezing rain to the region. This is part of a very harsh winter pattern that is just getting started.<\/p>\n
We are starting our Friday with a light snow maker rolling through central and eastern Kentucky. This is putting down some light accumulations with snow showers and flurries ready to follow later today. I have your tracking tools at the end of this post.<\/p>\n
A Winter Storm Watch for Sunday and Monday was issued yesterday for much of the area and many more counties will be added to this today. Here’s a look at all the real estate under the Winter Storm Watch…<\/p>\n
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Much of that will soon be upgraded to a Winter Storm Warning and even an Ice Storm Warning for some.<\/p>\n
As of this writing, there is a definitive trend for a farther south tracking system, putting more of Kentucky in line for some of the heavier snows. This is a trend that started showing up earlier with the Canadian Model and now other models are catching on. The trend is also there for higher precipitation totals for all forms of precipitation.<\/p>\n
Here’s the latest t from early Sunday morning through Tuesday afternoon…<\/p>\n
Her’s the snow map from the Canadian through that same period….<\/p>\n The model continues to show significant amounts of freezing rain and is focusing this farther south now…<\/p>\n Some impressive sleet totals are also showing up…<\/p>\n The EURO also trended farther south and is pretty much spot on with the Canadian…<\/p>\n Here’s the Snowfall from the EURO…<\/p>\n The EURO is also showing the potential for a major ice storm that focuses south of Interstate 64…<\/p>\n The sleet numbers aren’t as impressive as the Canadian…<\/p>\n Then we have the GFS. The GFS was actually correcting straight toward the Euro and Canadian Models before the low did some crazy loop back to the northwest.\u00a0 Watch the low jump from south central Kentucky all the way back into southern Illinois…<\/p>\n That’s the GFS being the GFS and, once it takes away that crazy jump, it will even out toward the other models.<\/p>\n The absurdity of the GFS shows up in the snowfall forecast across Illinois and Indiana…<\/p>\n Even with the bad data, the GFS did trend farther south with the snow in Kentucky.<\/p>\n The Freezing Rain forecast from the GFS is too far north…<\/p>\n So is the sleet…<\/p>\n The UKMET also came farther south resulting in more snow and ice…<\/p>\n The snowfall map is likely contaminated by the ice and sleet, pushing things too high…<\/p>\n The latest EURO Ensembles have also trended farther south with the snow and ice. This snowfall map is based on a 10-1 ratio and is the average of 51 different members of the EURO Ensembles…<\/p>\n The average of the 21 different members of the Canadian Ensembles also danced to the south…<\/p>\n The overall moral of the story has not changed… This is a MAJOR winter storm set to impact Kentucky with significant amounts of snow, sleet and freezing rain.<\/p>\n I will have a First Call for Ice and Snowfall out later today.<\/p>\n Bitterly cold temps come in behind this with the chance for temps to reach zero or below, especially by Wednesday and Thursday mornings.<\/p>\n I’ve talked about the potential for next Friday and Saturday and the models are starting to see more and more of this. One system drops in from the northwest and tries to merge with a southern stream winter storm…<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/CANADIAN-2-2.gif\")
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