Significant Winter Storm to Bring Heavy Snow and Ice Impacts; Dangerously Cold Temperatures Expands Across the East; Severe Storm Threat in the Gulf States Sunday

A significant winter storm is underway, bringing widespread heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain from the Southern Rockies to New England through Monday. Extremely cold air will follow, prolonging dangerous travel and infrastructure impacts into next week. Severe thunderstorms may produce damaging gusts and tornadoes across the eastern Gulf Coast states Sunday morning and afternoon. Read More >

Cold high pressure at the surface slipped beneath warm moist air aloft on December 16, 2008, and caused signicant amounts of snow, sleet, and freezing rain to fall on southern Indiana and central Kentucky. A band of snow dropped 2 to 4 inches of accumulation from Hartford through Elizabethtown to around Lexington. Below are a few snapshots sent in by local weather watchers:

	Lexington, Kentucky. John Bradshaw
	Clarkson, Kentucky. Scotty Gore
	Clarkson, Kentucky. Scotty Gore
	Hartford, Kentucky. Mike Poteet
	Lexington, Kentucky. Tommy Bodnar
	Shepherdsville, Kentucky. Angelian Keith
	Georgetown, Kentucky. Ron Malinowski, Jr.