HAZARD, Ky (WYMT) – Merry Christmas! After a messy Christmas Eve, rain passes through the snow all over the area.
Tonight and Christmas
Once your area starts to see snow, it will continue in waves throughout the evening, at night and until the early hours of Christmas morning. Santa will be busy on his trek through the mountains tonight. Road conditions will start to get worse quickly, especially after dark, so you need to stay off the roads as much as possible later.
Most areas should wake up for Christmas with at least a coating on the grass. Some will wake up for much more. Our latest forecast has the heaviest snow bands falling in the eastern counties, with smaller amounts in the west. Most of our area is under a winter storm warning that will last until early Friday. Areas along and west of I-75 and parts of eastern Tennessee are subject to a Winter Weather Advisory, also during Christmas morning.
Here are the latest snow forecasts:
Now, when it comes to temperatures, they will continue to drop until Friday morning, until the top teens go down. We will fight to get out of the teens under a mostly cloudy sky and a pack of snow on the ground on Friday for daytime highs. The skies will start clearing on Christmas night and we will see lows crashing against low teenagers. Moral of the story over the next two days? It will be cold.
Extended forecast
The sun returns on Saturday and temperatures will make a run in the high 30s. A lot of snow, if not all, should melt in areas with direct sunlight. Unfortunately, sunny skies during the day mean clear skies at night and lows that drop to the low 20s. This means that everything that melts will freeze again on Sunday morning.
The sun is back on Sunday and this time we will warm up to 50 and only go down to 40 at night, so it should help people who have to go back to work on Monday.
Some chances of rain recede Sunday night and last until Monday. Tuesday looks drier and colder. We could see another cold front that will affect the region in the middle of the week.
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