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<\/p>\nGood afternoon, everyone. Our major winter storm is enroute to Kentucky and will shut down the state and surrounding states. This storm will bring significant amounts of snow, sleet and freezing rain with bitterly cold air slamming in as well.<\/p>\n
As expected, the Winter Storm Warning has been expanded to include the entire state and most of the surrounding states…<\/p>\n
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I’m going to be making a New Call for Ice and Snowfall, but I don’t have the time it takes to make the graphic here at home because I have to be at work much earlier than normal. I’ll make it there and get it out to you guys. It may be through my Facebook page.<\/p>\n
The models are trending a bit colder and farther south, but that does NOT keep the ice storm threat away in the south and parts of the east. These areas may have a snowstorm to an ice storm then end as some snow.<\/p>\n
The Canadian Models have had a hot hand this winter so let’s see what they are looking like.<\/p>\n
The snowfall…<\/p>\n
The sleet potential is still way up there on the Canadian…<\/p>\n That’s likely too high, but we don’t need that to fall as freezing rain instead because the Canadian is ugly in the southeast and east…<\/p>\n That would be a crippling ice storm for some.<\/p>\n The GFS continues to be the snowiest model known to man and it has not wavered from that…<\/p>\n It does have some sleet…<\/p>\n The freezing rain is more confined to the southeast…<\/p>\n That would still be a major ice storm hit.<\/p>\n Here’s hoping the farther south trend continues on the models as that would mean less ice and more snow.<\/p>\n This is a life-threatening storm and the brutal cold with it will also be life-threatening. Lows go well below zero Monday night…<\/p>\n BTW…The HRRR only goes through 7am Sunday and sees the chance for some thundersnow or thunderice…<\/p>\n That’s wild!<\/p>\n I’ll have updates through the day and on WKYT starting at 4pm.\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![\"\"](\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Canadian-2-7.png\")
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