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<\/p>\nGood afternoon, everyone. A cold rain is about to make the switch to some snow and then snow showers and squalls as temps crash this afternoon and evening. This is the first in a series of winter weather makers rolling through our region.<\/p>\n
We do have a Winter Weather Advisory for far southeastern Kentucky through Thursday…<\/p>\n
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For our friends in southern West Virginia, I have no idea why you guys aren’t in that as well.<\/p>\n
The area of the far southeast is the area I highlighted for up to 2″ of snow. The rest of central and eastern Kentucky falls under the coatings to local 1″ category and I still like that. Snow streaks show up and can overachieve in narrow corridors from northwest to southeast.<\/p>\n
With temps dropping quickly through the 20s this evening, some slick spots will develop on area roads, especially bridges and overapsses.<\/p>\n
Wind chills reach the single digits tonight into early Thursday.<\/p>\n
Another light snow system zips across the state Thursday night and early Friday. This puts down some light accumulations that melt later in the day as temps rebound ahead of a more potent snow maker for the weekend.<\/p>\n
The trend is increasing for a light to moderate snowfall for much of the region from Friday night through Sunday. If you recall, this was something the models were originally showing a week ago before losing it. Well, they found it again as we get closer. Gee, that sounds familiar.<\/p>\n
Here’s the Short Range Canadian that only goes through 7pm Saturday…<\/p>\n
The regular Canadian takes us through the weekend into early next week with a weak system following that one up…<\/p>\n The GFS is also picking up on our Saturday system, but it’s taking that late Sunday\/Monday system all the way to the southeastern seaboard with a snowstorm from FLORIDA to New York…<\/p>\n Bitterly cold temps and wind chills will be noted around here from late this weekend into early next week.<\/p>\n I’ll have the latest on WKYT-TV starting at 4pm and another update comes your way here on KWC later today.. I\u2019ll also have a few updates on my Meteorologist Chris Bailey Facebook Page<\/a><\/p>\n Until then, here are your tracking tools for the day\u2026<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Canadian-34.gif\")
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