Arctic cold and chances ramp up

Lexington, Kentucky (WTVQ – ABC 36): Good Saturday everyone, it has been a cold day across central and eastern Kentucky with an occasional snow flurry. This is nothing though compared to what is coming. Let’s start with the present and roll forward. Temperatures tonight continue to drop and we see a band of light snow develop ahead of our arctic boundary overnight into the wee hours of Sunday morning.

Coatings to local 1″ amounts will show up. With temperatures being so cold, slick roads are a good possibility. That unleashes arctic blast number one with temperatures hitting the upper single digits to low teens by sunrise and wind chills potentially hitting zero or even below.

Temperatures remain frigid even into the afternoon with highs staying into the mid to upper teens in central Kentucky and low 20s in the south and east. Wind chills likely to not get out of the single digits here in central Kentucky. Southern and southeastern Kentucky may feel like the whopping low to mid teens,

Now we focus on our increasing chance for a snow for “parts” of the Commonwealth late Sunday night – Tuesday morning. Here is my current thinking on who has the best chance to put snow on the ground.

I know we are only 24-36 hours away from this system starting to impact our area but I am still not confident in totals enough to put out a snowfall total map. That WILL come your way on Sunday. Models are still just too undecided. Regardless of how much snow we get, another shot at BRUTAL cold comes our way Tuesday night and Wednesday. I will say, if we get a snow pack that will send thermometers below 0 and wind chills well below zero. Even without snow, we see temperatures deep into the single digits and wind chills below 0. But here is what a current model thinks in terms of those temperatures.

That model clearly puts a snowfall down as well. Stay with the ABC 36 Storm Team over the next several days for the most up to date forecast for central and eastern Kentucky. #kywx