After a brief respite from precipitation Monday, another round of winter weather appears to be on its way to the area.
“We’ve got another snow event coming through, probably in the E-Town area between about 6 and 8 p.m. Tuesday evening, probably somewhere between 4 and 6 inches of snow by Wednesday morning,” said Meteorologist John Gordon with the National Weather Service in Louisville. “It will be a dry snow, and the worst snow will be from about probably 9 p.m. to about 3 in the morning.”
Impacts to Wednesday morning travel are expected, and Gordon said cold temperatures mean freezing is likely for areas still impacted by flooding from the weekend rain.
“We’re going to be very cold during the day on Wednesday,” Gordon said. “Temperatures will be in the teens. Wind chill is in the teens. It’s just kind of an ugly time. There is good news, though, because we’ll be in the 40s by Sunday, Sunday and Monday, so we have to suffer a little but there will be some rejoicing at the end of the week.”
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet District Four says area roads were pretreated ahead of the weather on Monday.
Governor Andy Beshear, who declared a state of emergency ahead of the storm, said the White House has approved an emergency disaster declaration for all 120 counties in Kentucky. During an update Monday morning, Beshear said the Team Kentucky Storm Relief Fund has been activated in order to assist families impacted by the severe weather.
“The help’s needed, because we can now confirm 11 fatalities from this event,” Beshear said. “That number may still grow. That’s an addition of two since last night. Those include an adult male in Hardin County and an adult male in Floyd County.”
State officials say as of Monday morning more than 14,000 customers across the commonwealth are without power, more than 17,000 are without water, and more than 28,000 are under boil water advisories. 344 state highways are closed due to flooding, 14 from mudslides, and three from rock slides.
