Next System/ A Taste Of Spring

Hello everyone and good evening to you. I hope everyone got the chance to read the last post "Flashback: March 2nd 2012" I worked very hard on that one and I've got some good feedback on it so far. Anyways let's talk about the next storm system thats moving in and our chances of seeing spring in our near future.

The next system is set to impact us Tuesday into Wednesday with it coming form the north and west then it will give way to a developing system that will move through the Carolina states up the east coast. We're likely to start out as a very cold rain then change over to a period of moderate to heavy snows Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning. Now, this is where things get tricky as some models keep the heaviest of snows just east of here into Virginia yet others such as the folks from the HPC says the best shot for accumulating snows is here in southern, southeastern, and eastern Kentucky. As you can see below:

Thats an 80-95% chance for at least one inch of snow in eastern Kentucky. Now clearly as you can see that locations such as London, Somerset, to Lexington has an 80% chance. Ashland and Morehead I would have to say 90%.

Here's what the GFS shows early Wednesday morning as widespread snow showers take over eastern Kentucky:

As of now I would say accumulations of 1-2 inches is a shot more much of the area but I would say 1 inch or less is more realistic.

Enough snow talk, where's spring?! Well I have good news and bad news. Bad news first. I am seeing spring like temperature sin the near future but it's only a brief taste of spring. The good news is that this taste of spring will come just in time for the weekend (starting March 8th) where temperatures are likely to hit 60 degrees for much of the state with temperatures pushing 65 degrees very likely in the southern areas.

Although I do not see any sign of full fledged spring in the near future. I see Old Man Winter having a grip on us for the next 2-3 weeks at the least. Have a great night everyone and take care! :)