Severe Thunderstorms and Heavy Rainfall Across the Midwest into the Great Lakes Region; Significant Heat in the Southwest

Strong to severe storms may produce damaging winds, isolated hail, and a few tornadoes from the Midwest into the lower Great Lakes. These storms may also produce areas of heavy rain and flash flooding. Significant heat will continue across parts of the Desert Southwest into western Texas and north Alaska. Dangerous heat will also build into the Eastern and Central U.S. and continue into next week. 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.