After a wintry start to the week, the rest of the week looks to be calm and cold—until another chance for snow returns just in time for the weekend.
Meteorologist Andy Lesage with the National Weather Service in Paducah says temperatures will stay very cold for the week, with highs in the teens and 20’s and wind chills dropping it down possibly into the single digits at night. And those winds will be cutting, with gusts of up to 30 miles per hour possible—which could cause additional problems for iced trees and power lines.
Then, things will be quiet and dry throughout the work week, before another system threatens to bring wintry weather back to the region on Friday—though where and how much remains to be seen, if at all. Lesage says whatever precipitation did manage to fall, it would almost certainly be as snow.
After that, in the 8-to-14-day outlook, it’s looking like winter is here to stay, with temperatures staying cold and not much in the way of precipitation.
Winter Storm Blair as it’s come to be called, brought significant impacts to northern Kentucky over the weekend, but western Kentucky did not escape unscathed, with a half-inch of ice blanket the area Sunday morning, with locally higher amounts. Lesage says while most of the winter storm went has forecasted, the southern Pennyrile stayed colder than expected, meaning that whatever ice fell didn’t melt as it was supposed to.
Stay tuned to the National Weather Service in Paducah and the WHOP Family of Stations for more on any winter weather as it becomes clearer in the data.