Possible Winter Storm Christmas Eve-Christmas Day
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- The above image depicts what precipitation type should be expected during the daytime hours of Christmas Eve.
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- The abave image depicts precipitation changing to all snow by late Christmas Eve into Christmas Day.
A strong low pressure system will develop across the southern plains Thursday, and will move toward the Tennessee Valley by Christmas Eve morning. The low is forecast to track across the gulf coast states. This scenario would bring a gradually increasing wintry mix of rain and snow to southern Kentucky and snow across southern Indiana and northern Kentucky throughout Christmas Eve. With cold air rushing in behind this system, any precipitation would change over to snow late Christmas Eve, increasing our chances for a white Christmas!
The system is still 4 days away, so any slight change in the timing and track of the low could greatly alter precipitation timing, type, and amount. But at this point, this system looks to bring a wintry mix along and south of the Cumberland Parkway for Christmas Eve, with likely snow accumulations for much of the area by Christmas morning.
