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<\/p>\nGood afternoon, everyone. I have no changes to my overall thought process as a powerful winter storm blasts our region Sunday and Monday. This will bring significant amounts of snow, sleet and freezing rain to much of Kentucky.<\/p>\n
Our Winter Storm Watch has been expanded to include northern Kentucky but not eastern Kentucky…<\/p>\n
Kudos to the NWS offices who are being proactive in getting these watches out well in advance. I have no idea what the NWS offices in Jackson and Charleston, WV are waiting on. Please do not give the people in these regions a false sense of security that this storm will miss them.<\/p>\n
The model trends of sinking this system farther south continue and they are coming into line with the track I outlined days ago. I expected the low to go from near Memphis to near Pikeville\u00a0 and then into southern West Virginia.<\/p>\n
This is not some cutting area of low pressure… It’s a bowling ball that’s going only slightly north of due east. The blocking to our north won’t allow for this low to cut northward.<\/p>\n
The Canadian and Short Range Canadian Models are in lock step with one another and have been incredibly consistent…<\/p>\n
Here are the snow numbers from the short range Canadian…<\/p>\n The ice storm potential is across the southern half of the state…<\/p>\n Look at all that sleet…<\/p>\n Here’s the Canadian snowfall map…<\/p>\n The freezing rain map also shows an ice storm across the southern half of the state…<\/p>\n And this also shows a big time sleet event…<\/p>\n The new EURO should be out soon, but the last run of the model from early this morning looks pretty spot on to the Canadian family of models…<\/p>\n Here’s the snowfall map from the EURO…<\/p>\n The EURO also shows the ice storm setting up across the southern half of Kentucky…<\/p>\n The sleet isn’t as prominent and that’s why the snow forecast is higher on the EURO than the Canadian…<\/p>\n The GFS corrected the silly jump to the northwest and is slowly but surely marching farther south to line up better with the EURO and Canadian…<\/p>\n The snowfall map from the GFS…<\/p>\n The freezing rain is also edging farther south with each run…<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Canadian-7.gif\")
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