Thursday/Early Afternoon

WEATHER CODE: GREEN ***No hazardous weather expected***



Focus will be on potential for a winter storm early next week...

It's been a very cloudy and much cooler day across the Ohio Valley Region. The system that is beginning to affect the east coast will still bring some lingering rain showers to southeast Kentucky, potentially mixing with some freezing rain. The weekend looks much warmer with highs in the middle 40's Saturday and lower 50's by Sunday!

Early next week's potential winter event has not been advertised very well, and it has fairly good potential to be the first winter weather event of the year. To call it a potential winter storm might be pushing it, but it's not out of the realm of possibilities.

I cannot post the latest models. The 12Z GFS I was trying to bring up was from this May...go figure.

Anyhow the latest 12Z GFS has the precipitation starting out as rain Monday morning and continuing through the afternoon. Then the precip begins to change over to a mix of sleet and snow across Southern Indiana, while areas south along the Ohio River, have a mixture of rain and freezing rain. The latest GFS depicts fairly plentiful moisture behind the initial cold front. The GFS has been most consistent with the cold air to support frozen precipitation and has been the most consistent with the abundant moisture. I'll keep an eye on things through today and bring the you the latest tonight. Nonetheless, this looks to be the first winter weather event of the year! Will it be the first winter storm? That's still up for debate. More later...