Alaska and Canada has been shipping more arctic air southward than we need lately. Here is a late morning position report on the latest front which slipped through the barbed-wire fence separating the USA and Canada yesterday morning. The front is now:
Central Kentucky
NW Tennessee
North Arkansas
This front will reach Central Alabama later this afternoon. It is the reason that we are expecting a low of 21 in the Birmingham area by morning and 19 by Thursday morning. Outside chance we could see a few flurries near of after the front passes (or some sprinkles)
No throwing snowballs.
NWS/Huntsville is calling for a few snow flurries this afternoon and and evening across the Tennessee Valley of Extreme North Alabama. Winds will shift to the NW up to 25 mph this afternoon, They are also expecting the wind chill to drop as low as 5 below zero to 5 above zero overnight and early tomorrow morning!
ICE STORM COUNTRY KENTUCKY SPOT REPORTS
18 Paducah, sunny, gusts to 29 wind chill +1
26 Louisville, flurries, wind chill 12
23 Fort Knox, gusts 31, wind chill 6
24 Lexington, visibility 1/2, snow, wind chill 13
A small low pressure area was passing across Louisville. That is the reason for the slightly heavier snow at Lexington, home of the University of Kentucky.
