{"id":75687,"date":"2026-01-20T19:42:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T00:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=75687"},"modified":"2026-01-20T19:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T00:50:12","slug":"winter-weather-advisory-and-winter-storm-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=75687","title":{"rendered":"Winter Weather Advisory and Winter Storm THREAT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good evening, everyone. We have a Winter Weather Advisory for areas of central and western Kentucky tonight and early Wednesday. At the same time, we are now in full-blown Winter Weather THREAT<\/strong> <\/em>mode for the weekend.<\/p>\n

Let’s begin with the Winter Weather Advisory…<\/p>\n

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I could see this being expanded to include several more counties as a mix of light snow and light freezing rain moves in overnight and early Wednesday. The HRRR has a pretty concerning signal for light ice and light snow accumulations…<\/p>\n

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With road temps below freezing and a frozen ground, school delays and cancellations are VERY possible as the arrival time of this is just before the morning commute.<\/p>\n

Ok, let’s get into the Winter Storm THREAT<\/strong><\/em>…<\/p>\n

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Here are some headlines…<\/p>\n

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Folks, this has the chance to be a shutdown winter storm as it brings the rare combination of arctic air and a juicy winter storm.<\/p>\n

The EURO continues to be super amped up with this…<\/p>\n

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Here’s what that looks like up close and personal…<\/p>\n

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The snowfall map from that run of the EURO is as stout as you will ever see…<\/p>\n

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Again, that’s just one run of one model, but it has support. Among them, the Canadian family of models. The Parallel Canadian looks like this…<\/p>\n

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Here’s the up close and personal view…<\/p>\n

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And the snow map from that run…<\/p>\n

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All of this has strong support from the Ensembles which only show snow ratios of 10-1. This will be a much higher ratio event so these forecast totals are on the light side, but it gives you an idea as to where the ensembles see the heaviest snows…<\/p>\n

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EURO ENSEMBLES<\/p>\n

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The GFS and GFS Ensembles are both coming back to the north and should eventually match up with most other models…<\/p>\n

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The snowfall run from that model has some issues down in Tennessee, but the trend is north…<\/p>\n

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The GFS Ensembles also came north…<\/p>\n

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Bitterly cold temps and wind chills accompany this storm. These are the wind chill numbers from the EURO starting at 7pm Friday and ending Monday afternoon…<\/p>\n

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The full update comes your way tonight and I’ll have the latest on WKYT News starting at 10pm on the CW Lexington and at 11 on WKYT.\u00a0 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

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