Your Monday and the Week Ahead

I know, most of the snow that some us received is now completely gone. However, as of Sunday morning at 7am, here were some select snow depth locations around the state and elsewhere...

Beattyville KY 3"
Taylorsville KY 2"
Whitesburg KY 2"
Louisville KY 1"

Chicago IL 6"
Mt Washington NH 27"
Cordova AK 37"
Valdez AK 78"

Today is not the only holiday happening this week. Check out this week's other 'holidays'.

16th - National Nothing Day
17th - Ditch New Years Resolutions Day
18th - Thesaurus Day
19th - National Popcorn Day
20th - Penguin Awareness Day
21st - National Hugging Day

Does this date sound familiar? I'll be discussing Louisville's most significant winter storm system in recent memory. Boy, do I have memories....

Looking ahead for the rest of the week and for that matter beyond that, things don't look that great for us snow lovers. Sure, it does look like we'll see icebox mode coming up this week, similar to our last cold snap.

But, the overall trend seems to be warmer readings, not colder. I've been harping on this for a while now. All teleconnections point toward a warmer than normal pattern. Despite a few trends toward negative, the graphs simply bounce right back toward the upside.

I read a NWS discussion this morning highlighting the possibility of 60's to near 70 for the upcoming weekend. Sure, we'll see colder readings. But, this pattern seems to favor something you would see in early March than the climatological coldest part of the winter, which should be about now.

All of the cold air continues to be bottled up in Alaska. This should prove to be a memorable winter for them, as we've already seen very cold readings and lots of snowfall with wind.

For Louisville, the latest forecast this week highlights about 0.60" rain accumulation this week, and isolated heavier amounts are possible where thunderstorms occur or training develops.

We'll see a brief return to winter and then things warm up again. I'm going to keep things warmer than normal. A little system later this week could provide a glancing blow of mixed precipitation. But this should quickly change to all liquid as warmer air surges in for next weekend. Therefore, not expecting anything significant as far as wintry weather goes.

MS