Our first Winter Storm

Good evening everybody.  Our first true Winter storm of the season is just hours away now.  This storm is currently creating havoc on the Gulf coast.  Tornadoes are spinning up with the powerful thunderstorms down that way.  We are going to be on the north side of this storm system, and so that means rain and snow for us.

The model runs coming in today have been predicting a slightly farther south track for the storm.  This means that the areas in Kentucky seeing the action are going to be farther south as well.  Yesterday it was looking like a significant accumulation of snow was going to be likely for most of us.  Today it's starting to look like only the southern and eastern counties in Kentucky will really get the deep stuff.

Rain will break out late tonight and should change to mostly snow by the time we wake up Sunday morning.  Snow showers will likely be ongoing for much of the day Sunday.  Temperatures will fall through the 40s tonight and into the 30s by morning.  Sunday night, temps. will fall even more and really ice over any remaining water on the roadways.

Winter Storm WARNINGS will be issued this evening for southeastern Kentucky.  The Bluegrass of Kentucky will likely see Winter Weather Advisories posted.  Here is my updated snowfall map: