Thunderstorms and Heavy Rain in the Mid-South; Heat Continues in the Southeast and Southwest

Severe thunderstorms and heavy rain are expected across portions of the mid-Mississippi Valley into the Ohio Valley and portions of Arizona. Dangerous heat persists in the South and Southeast while building into the Southwest. Overnight lows will be so warm that, when combined with oppressive dew points, little-to-no relief from the scorching daytime highs will be available. 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.

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Thunderstorms and Heavy Rain in the Mid-South; Heat Continues in the Southeast and Southwest

Snow and Ice on December 16, 2008