Monthly Archives: December 2010

The main Heavy snow band tonight has tracked further south than expected thus another holiday update. Snowfall rates have been up to an inch and hour within this period of heavy snow with reported totals of 1-1.5 inches from the … Continue reading →

Temperatures have gone at or slightly above freezing this morning. Precipitation is moving in from the Missouri valley and should arrive in the region late this afternoon. With the temperatures near freezing and faster timing of the system this precipitation … Continue reading →

Over the past few days modeling has been going back and forth on a phased or unphased storm for Saturday. If the storm is unphased the snow will be more disorganized and lighter across the region, if the storm were … Continue reading →

That is the question on the minds of many kids awaiting Christmas morning. A white christmas always adds a little extra for the holiday season and the pressure is on meteorologists to provide. Annually snowfall is only about 10 inches … Continue reading →

Highlights *Highs in the low to mid 40s *Light rain Monday night/Tuesday *High pressure dominates mid week A system to our north will bring rain to the area Monday night into the afternoon on Tuesday.  Cold air will remain to … Continue reading →

Boy what a difference a few days makes. Latest model runs now provide quite a drastic picture shaping up for this weekends weather. Both the European and GFS as Well As The North American Mesoscale Model, are in pretty good … Continue reading →

As mentioned in previous blogs, a clipper system will be advancing from the NW and swinging south into the SE.  Tracks were unknown as of a few days ago, however, models now are now in better  agreeance of a more … Continue reading →

Models are picking up on a clipper system to move through the area this weekend.  As of right now looks like cold air is in place for some measurable snowfall for the area.  Now with models this far out in … Continue reading →

Western Kentucky University awoke to some light snow this morning and picked up a trace.  If you were to step outside however you would soon realize that snow isn’t the real story here.  Deep Arctic air has made its way … Continue reading →

Over this fall term students in Dr.Durkee’s Synoptic class forecasted weather each day for cities across the country and competed with meteorology majors from the university of Georgia, northern Illinois university and Mississippi state university. Overall Lee Campbell a blog … Continue reading →