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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.

Temperatures may be cooler and conditions may be wetter at the moment, but state fire officials are reminding residents to take precautions to protect their homes and natural areas during Spring Wildfire Season, which runs now through April 30.

“During the late fall through early spring, since everything goes dormant, the leaves fall, the grass dies down and stuff, all that stuff is technically dry,” said Radcliff Deputy Fire Marshal Tommy Crane. “Yeah, we may have some rain, some snow, but the grasses and a lot of the brush are still technically dry because they’re dormant.”

During Spring Wildfire Season, burning is prohibited within 150 feet of woodland or brushland between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. If you plan to burn debris, only burn natural vegetation during evening hours when conditions are less windy, keep fire tools handy, and never leave a fire unattended.

Crane says consider alternatives to burning such as limb removal and leaf pickup services offered by the cities, and always check with your local fire department ahead of any burning.

“Anytime you’re burning, whether it’s in this restricted time or whatever time of year it is, always check to make sure with your local ordinances, and what is allowed was not allowed because we want to take care of our neighbors and we want to make sure that we don’t burn down anybody else’s wooded area or anything like that,” Crane said.

More information on Kentucky Spring Wildfire Season is available on the Kentucky Division of Forestry’s website.

The Bullitt County Sheriff’s Office has released information on two ongoing investigations.

The sheriff’s office says on February 13 deputies responded to a residence on the 300 block of Wilma Avenue to perform a welfare check on a woman “who had not been seen or heard from in several days.” The deputies found a female subject and a male subject who were both dead inside the residence.

The sheriff’s office also says on February 13 deputies responded to a residence on the 300 block of Tuts Road in response to a reported shooting. Upon arrival deputies found a male subject dead at the scene and another male subject with a gunshot wound to the leg. The injured male was transported to the University of Louisville Hospital by Bullitt County EMS. 

Detectives with the sheriff’s office are investigating both cases. Anybody with possible information may contact the sheriff’s office’s crime tip line at 502-543-1262 or by emailing crimetip@bcky.org.