{"id":75739,"date":"2026-01-21T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=75739"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:00:29","slug":"winter-storm-threat-breakdown-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=75739","title":{"rendered":"Winter Storm THREAT Breakdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good afternoon, everyone. Light snow and a light mix are winding down after causing travel issues earlier today. As this fades away, we turn can firmly concentrate on the major winter storm coming this weekend. Our Winter Storm THREAT<\/strong> <\/em>continues with an early upgrade to an Alert<\/strong> <\/em>likely by tonight or early Thursday.<\/p>\n

Here’s a quick breakdown of our THREAT<\/strong><\/em>…<\/p>\n

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A Winter Storm WATCH has already been issued for much of Kentucky for the weekend. Kudos to the NWS folks for getting out ahead of this with headlines days in advance!!!<\/p>\n

Here’s my initial breakdown of how this may play out, but this is a work in progress…<\/p>\n

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This is a likely shutdown winter storm, folks.<\/p>\n

I will be updating that later today and on WKYT starting at 4pm.<\/p>\n

The latest Canadian Model is pretty wound up with this system and brings the lead low through far eastern Kentucky into West Virginia…<\/p>\n

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That’s too wound up for my taste to be honest.<\/p>\n

Here’s the snowfall map from that run…<\/p>\n

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The heavy sleet…<\/p>\n

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The massive freezing rain shield…<\/p>\n

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The Canadian is essentially last January on steroids.<\/p>\n

The latest GFS is more of a snow hit than an ice hit for Kentucky, but it’s a close call…<\/p>\n

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Here’s the GFS Snowfall map that likely has some sleet contamination…<\/p>\n

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It doesn’t show much sleet, but I think the algorithm is messed up…<\/p>\n

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It doesn’t have much in the way of freezing rain, which is a good thing, but I’m not sure I fully buy it…<\/p>\n

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Additional updates come your way later today and I’ll have the latest on WKYT-TV starting at 4pm. 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

\"Watches\"<\/p>\n

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