Mild Temperatures Ahead, Along With Damaging Winds

February 15, 2022

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A WIND ADVISORY goes in place 7 am-7 pm Wednesday. Thursday may have an advisory as well. South winds will warm us into the 60s Wednesday. Thursday will feel like a tropical storm for us. Windy and rainy. Friday will feel like the Arctic (not exactly, but cold). We rebound temperature-wise this weekend.

Tonight- our winds will increase. We will see more cloud cover. A mild low of 40. South winds 5-15.

Wednesday- Partly-mostly cloudy and windy. A WIND ADVISORY will be in place 7 am-7 pm for most of the area. South winds 15-25 mph with gusts 30-45 mph (maybe higher PM). Wednesday’s high 64.

Thursday- cloudy with rain moving in, primarily in the PM. Heavy at times. Isolated thunderstorms are possible too. Rain chance 100%. An inch + of rain is expected. We will peak near 64 again. Winds south 15-20 gusting to near 45 mph.

Thursday night- rain winds down, leftover moisture behind the cold front likely yielding some light snow.

The temperatures will drop significantly overnight. A low of 26.

Friday- we will end up with sunshine but we will be cold. A high of 37.

Saturday- Mostly sunny and milder. A high of 45.

Sunday- Nice. Mostly sunny and a high of 58

President’s Day- Mostly sunny. A 20% chance of showers. A high of 63.

Tuesday- A 40% chance of showers, and a high of 64

*Today in weather history

last year at this time, 150,000 customers lost power from an ice storm in eastern Kentucky. Plenty of trees were down and many roads impassable. The system ran from the 15th into the 16th. Lexington set a record high of 76 in 1945. Lexington saw 2.8″ of rain on this date in 1989. 5″ of snow in 2010.

1989 – Thirty-seven cities in the southeastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. The afternoon high of 80 degrees at Atlanta GA was a February record. Highs of 79 degrees at Chattanooga TN, 84 degrees at Columbia SC and 85 degrees at New Orleans LA equalled February records. (The National Weather Summary)

1990 – Snow, sleet and freezing rain along an arctic cold front prevailed from the north central U.S. to the Northern Atlantic Coast Region. High winds created near blizzard conditions in southern Wyoming, closing Interstate 80, while up to eleven inches of snow fell across central Minnesota.

1990 – Heavy snow also blanketed the Northern Atlantic Coast States, with ten inches reported at Buffalo NY and Mount Washington NH. Freezing rain over southern New England knocked out electricity to more than 10,000 homes in the western suburbs of Boston MA. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

2004 – Up to 11 inches of snow fell in areas south of Nashville, TN, causing power outages and producing hazardous driving conditions.