Good afternoon. I just wanted to show you something really cool. A band of heavy snow worked across Kentucky last night, dropping 3-6” of heavy wet snow across areas mostly along a Louisville to Lexington to Pikeville line. Today, the sun is shining statewide, and you can very easily see where the sharp cutoff to the snow was simply by looking at temperatures! The snow has a high albedo...which means that it reflects a LOT of incoming solar energy. This prevents the ground from soaking up the radiation and warming. By contrast, the areas with no snowfall saw temps. go as much as 10 degrees higher today because the ground soaked up the sunlight and warmed. Snow is definitely an excellent insulator!! This is also why wearing sunglasses on a snowy day is a must.
-Shawn
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