{"id":76439,"date":"2026-02-18T01:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=76439"},"modified":"2026-02-18T01:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:33:16","slug":"strong-storms-and-a-few-snowflakes-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=76439","title":{"rendered":"Strong Storms and A Few Snowflakes Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good Wednesday to one and all. Our wild weather ride is about to kick into high gear with the potential for strong and severe storms on Thursday, with falling temps and some snowflakes later this weekend. I don’t know about you, but I’m over these wild swings.<\/p>\n

A couple of showers and rumbles of thunder are moving through the region today. Temps reach the 60s across the state as a strong southwest wind continues to kick in. That’s ahead of a potent storm system across the Mississippi Valley for Thursday. That rolls toward the Great Lakes into Friday, bringing the threat for severe weather along for the ride.<\/p>\n

The greatest threat for severe weather may be just to the northwest of Kentucky with some of this trying to sneak into the north and west. The Storm Prediction Center shows this potential well with the Thursday Severe Weather Outlook…<\/p>\n

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The tornado threat is greatest to our northwest…<\/p>\n

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Areas of damaging winds have a better chance to show up in Kentucky…<\/p>\n

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Some of these storms may end up producing large hail, especially across the north…<\/p>\n

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Locally heavy downpours show up with these storms that exit the east by Friday morning. The rest of Friday looks like a pretty nice day, albeit windy with falling temps from west to east.<\/p>\n

The low to start the weekend likely stays to our southeast, but the upper level system dropping in on a strong northwest flow means some snow showers and flurries from Saturday night through Monday.<\/p>\n

Here’s the Euro with this setup…<\/p>\n

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Light accumulations will be possible for some Sunday night and early Monday.<\/p>\n

Temps will struggle to get above freezing for Sunday and Monday, resulting in some wicked wind chills. This animation goes from 7am Sunday to 7am Monday…<\/p>\n

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Looking into the closing week and change of February and into the start of March, this isn’t exactly a stable pattern…<\/p>\n

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Winter isn’t done, unfortunately.<\/p>\n

Another update or two comes your way later today. I will have updates on my\u00a0Meteorologist Chris Bailey Facebook Page<\/a><\/p>\n

Until then, here are your tracking tools for the day\u2026<\/p>\n

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