{"id":75441,"date":"2026-01-14T01:29:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=75441"},"modified":"2026-01-14T01:29:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:29:53","slug":"snow-squalls-and-frigid-wind-chills-crash-in-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=75441","title":{"rendered":"Snow Squalls and Frigid Wind Chills Crash In Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Wednesday to one and all.\u00a0 Old Man Winter is crashing back into the region today as rain changes to some snow. Light accumulations kick off a rather active winter pattern with additional light snowmakers coming this weekend and early next week.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s your breakdown of what&#8217;s going on with the system today and Thursday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rain and wind start today just ahead of a cold front slamming through.<\/li>\n<li>This front slows down with a wave of low pressure along it late this afternoon and evening.<\/li>\n<li>As this is happening, it allows the cold air a better opportunity to catch the back of the rain shield and change it to snow.<\/li>\n<li>That may allow for a period of accumulating snow, especially in the east and southeast.<\/li>\n<li>Snow showers and snow squalls then develop on a strong northwest wind this evening into early Thursday.<\/li>\n<li>Some pretty nice snow streaks can show up during this time, especially in the plume coming from Lake Michigan.<\/li>\n<li>A few of these streaks may overachieve.<\/li>\n<li>With temps dropping into the 20s by this evening and into the teens Thursday morning, slick roads will become an issue.<\/li>\n<li>Some delays and cancellations are a good bet tomorrow.<\/li>\n<li>Wind chills reach the single digits Wednesday evening and stay there into Thursday morning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made no changes to the First Call for Snowfall but that area of up to 2&#8243; may need to grow a little bit to the west&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4-MAP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75438\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4-MAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"832\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4-MAP.jpg 832w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4-MAP-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4-MAP-768x435.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 832px) 100vw, 832px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The future radar from the HRRR shows all of this well on the animation that starts at Noon today and goes through 7pm Thursday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hrrr-4.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75445\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hrrr-4.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The snowfall map from that run of the HRRR shows the streaks of snow from those snow squalls&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hrrr.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75444\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hrrr.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"966\" height=\"755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hrrr.png 966w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hrrr-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hrrr-768x600.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 966px) 100vw, 966px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other models are seeing a similar trend&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GFS-6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75449\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GFS-6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"966\" height=\"756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GFS-6.png 966w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GFS-6-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GFS-6-768x601.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 966px) 100vw, 966px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Canadian-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75448\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Canadian-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"965\" height=\"757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Canadian-1.png 965w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Canadian-1-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Canadian-1-768x602.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 965px) 100vw, 965px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NAM-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75443\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NAM-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"964\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NAM-2.png 964w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NAM-2-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NAM-2-768x605.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/nam.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75442\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/nam.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"964\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/nam.png 964w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/nam-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/nam-768x605.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope we get some Winter Weather Advisories to go up. If they do, you will see them here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/webpubcontent.gray.tv\/wkyt\/WEBWATCHES.jpg\" alt=\"Watches\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bitterly cold wind chills surge in here this evening and continue into Thursday. Wind chills drop deep into the single digits tonight and early Thursday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NAM-9.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75446\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NAM-9.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The setup after this will feature a light snow system moving across parts of the region late Thursday night and Friday morning. Light accumulations will show up in some spots but that may melt away during the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Another system sweeps across the region late Friday night and Saturday. This one has the best chance for a widespread light accumulating snowfall with a few more light systems trying to zip in in behind it into early next week.<\/p>\n<p>The forecast models are pretty terrible with consistency and are drastically changing from run to run, especially the GFS and EURO. The Canadian is the steadiest of the bunch right now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Canadian-33.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75451\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Canadian-33.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another update or two comes your way later today. I\u2019ll also have a few updates on my\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChrisBaileyWKYT\">Meteorologist Chris Bailey Facebook Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Until then, here are your tracking tools for the day\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/webpubcontent.gray.tv\/wkyt\/WEBWATCHES.jpg\" alt=\"Watches\" data-src=\"https:\/\/webpubcontent.gray.tv\/wkyt\/WEBWATCHES.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/x-hv1.pivotalweather.com\/maps\/warnings\/nwshaz.us_ov.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/x-hv1.pivotalweather.com\/maps\/warnings\/nwshaz.us_ov.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/builder.zoomradar.net\/zoomradar_weather_map\/weather_page.php?key=dlFZs5IY4VCw7bK\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"seamless\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/radar-large.asp?partner=netweather&amp;traveler=0&amp;site=KY_&amp;type=SIR&amp;anim=1&amp;level=state&amp;large=1#\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" alt=\"\" usemap=\"#largemap\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Make it a wonderful Wednesday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Wednesday to one and all.\u00a0 Old Man Winter is crashing back into the region today as rain changes to some snow. Light accumulations kick off a rather active winter pattern with additional light snowmakers coming this weekend and early next week. Here&#8217;s your breakdown of what&#8217;s going on with the system today and Thursday: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75441"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75453,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75441\/revisions\/75453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}