Well, the Lexington area dodges another bullet. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, 50 miles makes all the difference in the world with these Winter systems. The weather modeling was taking a good guess at where that storm was headed, and it did a pretty good job all things considered. We knew all along that southeastern KY was going to see the worst from this storm, and visible satellite imagery this morning confirms that. Just look at the large swath of snow from Corbin to Prestonsburg to Pikeville. Numerous crashes and power outages were reported from those KY counties that saw the snow. This is a cool image courtesy of the NWS office in Louisville.
Here in the Bluegrass, we saw the snow skirt us just to the south. Not a flake fell here, and many folks don’t mind one bit. We now see Spring coming around the corner and I think a lot of people are just ready to get on with it. What a mild and snowless Winter this has been!
We do still have 4-6 weeks of potentially cold weather left though, so don’t go getting out the shorts and tank tops just yet. After a relatively mild week again, we may see more cold move in for the upcoming weekend. Then beyond this weekend we’ll be staring March in the face and our “wildcard” month will be upon us. It is going to be really interesting to see where March takes us. I can’t wait.
Note the heavy snow in portions of Kentucky:
Shawn
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