Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

November 22, 2008: COLD WEATHER CONTINUES

Blast after blast of cold air has poured into the eastern half of the United States over the last few weeks. This is a pattern that I have not seen in years. The Paducah area was down into the teens this morning. The airport registered a low temperature of 18 degrees. Benton, Kentucky fell to 17 degrees. These temperatures were 15-20 degrees below normal.

It appears that more cold air will continue to pour out of Canada in the coming weeks. There will be brief warm spells but mainly cold. Showers and thunderstorms will be possible on Sunday night and Monday morning. It still appears that there will be a chance of rain on Friday into next weekend. This could be snow just to the north of our region. If the storm were to track further south then we could see snow even into our region. All depends on the track of the low. Looks like rain, at this point.

More storm systems on tap for the first week of December. Hopefully we can squeeze a few flakes out of one of those systems.

Temperatures this morning – a cold nation!