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Kentucky Climate Summary
By: Tom Priddy, UK Agricultural Weather Center - 11/20/2018
Winter came early for the Bluegrass State as temperatures ran below normal for a second straight week and a wintry mix of precipitation fell on several occasions. The most significant event came Wednesday night and into Thursday. A Winter Weather
Advisory was issued for the majority of the state. Freezing rain fell across much of Central Kentucky and the Bluegrass with numerous accumulations between a tenth and quarter inch. Ice accumulations were mainly limited to elevated surfaces with warm ground
temperatures in place. While this mitigated road impacts, the ice did lead to many downed limbs and associated power outages. Precipitation fell in the form of snow for extreme portions of Western Kentucky with accumulations between 1 and 2 inches.
Combined with additional rain showers on Monday/Sunday and other light snow events, accumulations averaged 1.2 inches for the week. Behind the winter weather, Kentucky saw a warming trend through the weekend, increasing into the 50s on Saturday and
Sunday.
Temperatures for the period averaged 38 degrees across the state which was 10 degrees cooler than normal and 6 degrees cooler than the previous period. High temperatures averaged from 43 in the West to 46 in the East. Departure from normal high
temperatures ranged from 16 degrees cooler than normal in the West to 13 degrees cooler than normal in the East. Low temperatures averaged from 31 degrees in the West to 32 degrees in the East. Departure from normal low temperatures ranged from 8
degrees cooler than normal in the West to 3 degrees cooler than normal in the East. The extreme high temperature for the period was 65 degrees at BENTON 4N and the extreme low was 18 degrees at CARBONDALE ASOS.
Precipitation (liq. equ.) for the period totaled 1.38 inches statewide which was 0.46 inches above normal and 151% of normal. Precipitation totals by climate division, West 0.77 inches, Central 1.68 inches, Bluegrass 1.44 inches and East 1.61 inches, which
was -0.31, 0.72, 0.65 and 0.78 inches respectively from normal. By station, precipitation totals ranged from a low of 0.14 inches at POPLAR BLUFF ASOS to a high of 2.59 inches at GREENVILLE 6N.
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