{"id":75944,"date":"2026-01-26T19:14:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T00:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=75944"},"modified":"2026-01-26T19:14:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T00:14:46","slug":"bitter-cold-and-light-snows-take-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=75944","title":{"rendered":"Bitter Cold and Light Snows Take Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, everyone. It&#8217;s a bitterly cold stretch of weather across Kentucky and this is locked in for a while. This bitter cold comes with light snow chances and the opportunity for something a little bigger by the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Our Extreme Cold Warning continues for most of Kentucky tonight and early Tuesday as wind chills drop to -20 at times&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2-MAP-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75947\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2-MAP-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"919\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2-MAP-8.jpg 919w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2-MAP-8-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2-MAP-8-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 919px) 100vw, 919px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Actual lows will go below zero in many areas. This is life-threatening cold, folks.<\/p>\n<p>Another arctic front arrives Tuesday afternoon and evening with a period of light accumulating snows for central and eastern Kentucky. That&#8217;s followed by another light snow system late Wednesday and Wednesday night&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/CANADIAN-66.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75945\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/CANADIAN-66.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An inch or two of snow is possible with these systems.<\/p>\n<p>The system dropping in behind this Friday into Saturday has a lot of energy with it and should spawn another big winter storm in the eastern US. Currently, the models are east with that with only a light event with it for our region.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the Parallel Canadian&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/CANADIAN-2-33.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75946\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/CANADIAN-2-33.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The EURO&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/EURO-2-27.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75950\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/EURO-2-27.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The EURO AI doesn&#8217;t give precipitation types, but it&#8217;s a bit farther west and has another system behind it a few days later&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/EURO-39.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75949\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/EURO-39.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We really need to watch for a westward correction on the models over the next few days. It will not take very much of a westward movement of the disturbance dropping in to bring this much farther west.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the snow, brutally cold air remains. This is a lot of Barney&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/CANADIAN-3-12.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75952\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/CANADIAN-3-12.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The full update comes later tonight. I\u2019ll also have updates on my <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 great Monday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, everyone. It&#8217;s a bitterly cold stretch of weather across Kentucky and this is locked in for a while. This bitter cold comes with light snow chances and the opportunity for something a little bigger by the weekend. Our Extreme Cold Warning continues for most of Kentucky tonight and early Tuesday as wind chills [&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-75944","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\/75944","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=75944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75953,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75944\/revisions\/75953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}