Heavy Rainfall Along the Central Gulf Coast; Thunderstorms from the Plains to the Central Appalachians; Heat Across the East

A system in the Gulf could produce heavy rainfall and flash flooding for portions of the north-central Gulf Coast into Saturday. Widespread showers and thunderstorms are likely this afternoon into Friday from Central Plains into the mid-Mississippi Valley, Ohio Valley and Central Appalachians. Dangerous heat is expected from the Lower Mississippi Valley to the Mid-Atlantic today. 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.