{"id":76038,"date":"2026-01-29T18:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=76038"},"modified":"2026-01-29T18:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:27:12","slug":"snow-and-more-bitter-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=76038","title":{"rendered":"Snow and More Bitter Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, everyone. Our Winter Storm THREAT continues for far southeastern Kentucky with lighter snows for the rest of the state. All of this unleashes another round of life-threatening cold for the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The NWS has opted for a Winter Weather Advisory in the southeast, but I&#8217;ll make the argument for a Winter Storm Warning along the Virginia border counties&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/webpubcontent.gray.tv\/wkyt\/WEBWATCHES.jpg\" alt=\"Watches\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The counties from Pike down to Bell have the chance for several inches of snow, especially in the high mountains. For the rest of us, much lighter accumulations will be noted from the light snow zipping through early Friday then the snow showers and squalls Saturday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-MAP-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76040\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-MAP-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"783\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-MAP-8.jpg 783w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-MAP-8-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-MAP-8-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brutally cold air comes in behind this and I&#8217;m concerned this Cold Weather Advisory is too weak of a headline from the NWS&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Warnings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76041\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Warnings.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"795\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Warnings.jpg 795w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Warnings-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Warnings-768x423.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This needs to be another Extreme Cold Warning, especially when you see wind chills -10 to -20 for parts of the region Friday night and Saturday morning&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/EURO-47.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76043\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/EURO-47.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those wind chills remain brutal Saturday into Sunday morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/EURO-2-29.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76045\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/EURO-2-29.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Updates come your way later today. I\u2019ll also have updates on my\u00a0<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 Thursday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, everyone. Our Winter Storm THREAT continues for far southeastern Kentucky with lighter snows for the rest of the state. All of this unleashes another round of life-threatening cold for the weekend. The NWS has opted for a Winter Weather Advisory in the southeast, but I&#8217;ll make the argument for a Winter Storm Warning [&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-76038","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\/76038","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=76038"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76047,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76038\/revisions\/76047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}