It’s About To Get Freakin’ Cold

This Afternoon – Mostly Sunny & Blustery – 15˚↓ / Tonight – Clear & (SHUT THE FRONT DOOR!) Cold – Low 2˚

3pm 15˚ • 6pm 10˚ • 9pm 7˚ • 12am 6˚ • 3am 3˚ • 6am 2˚

It’s a splendid afternoon to get your face peeled off in the great outdoors, and that’s no exaggeration.  Temperature values are currently located in the mid teens, with northwesterly winds of 15-25+ mph creating subzero wind chill values.

Sound advice in this trying time…

Temps will only continue to tumble as we get into this evening and overnight, spending much of that time in the single digits…

Potential wind chill values of -5˚ to -10º has prompted the National Weather Service to keep all of south central Kentucky under the current windchill advisory until 9am Thursday morning.

ER! MAH! GAWD!

Please open cabinet doors and close off any ventilation to your crawl space to prevent pipes from bursting.  The graphic below is a great tool produced by NWS Paducah with tips on how to deal with the extreme cold.  Use it:

Thu – Mostly Sunny & Slap Yo Momma Cold – High 21˚ / Thu Night – Partly Cloudy – Low 14˚

Our Thursday will start out teeth-chattering cold as temperatures find themselves just above the 0˚ threshold.  The GFS model below displays temperature values for 6am.  Light winds will continue to add a cutting edge to the air, with wind chills remaining at subzero values through mid morning.

The good news is that these values will climb to the lower 20s under sunny skies during the afternoon, kicking off a slow, but welcome warming trend that will hang around through the weekend.

Conditions remain quiet Thursday night, with lows dropping back off into the teens.

Fri – Mostly Sunny – High 25˚ / Fri Night – Clear – Low 9˚

Not much to say about our Friday.  In all honesty, it’ll nearly be a carbon copy of what we experience on Thursday, minus the ridiculously cold early morning temps.

We’ll see our conditions improve through the weekend, with Sunday afternoon highs topping out close to 40˚.  It’s worth noting that e’re keeping our eye on our next weather  maker that looks to make an appearance late Sunday into Monday of next week.

That’ll wrap up the Wednesday afternoon update.  Stay connected to @WxOrNotBG & @WarrenCountyWx for the latest real-time weather info.  Prepare for extreme cold, and have a great end to your day.  Thanks for reading!