Wednesday, January 14th, 2009: 5pm

The cold arrives...

As I type this, the arctic cold front is beginning to pass through the area. This cold front is preceded by a period of light snow that could produce a ground cover of snow. Tonight will drop to 6 degrees, with wind chills from -7 to -15. The National Weather Service has issued a Wind Chill advisory from 4-10am tomorrow morning. The advisory includes southern Indiana and north-central Kentucky north of the Bluegrass Parkway. In this area, the NWS expects wind chills of -10 during this period.

Temps will not rise much during the day Thursday, and it will continue to be breezy. Though the wind chill advisory will expire by then, tomorrow afternoon-evening will have wind chills around 0 most of the day. Thursday night, wind chills may again drop to -5 or -10, with 10 mph winds blowing and temps in the single digits.

Lows Friday morning will be around 0, and as you see in my forecast, I think that negative 1 will be the temp. Note that the official temp that you see on TV is the airport, which will likely be 2 or 3 degrees above 0.

Chances of light snow continue this weekend. We could pick up light, up to 1" accumulations at any time there is a snowburst.

There is a system coming in from the southwest next late week-weekend, so we will begin to see warmer temps and some rain then.

Alex C.