When will all this snow melt? See the weekend forecast for Lexington.
Most of the snow that blanketed Lexington and surrounding counties Thursday should be melting away by Sunday morning, according to meteorologist Ron Steve with the National Weather Service in Louisville.
Bitterly cold temperatures on Friday are doing little to start the melting process, but warmer temperatures on Saturday - upwards of 43 degrees, the NWS says - mixed with sunlight should melt away a large amount of the snow, Steve said. Rainfall forecast for Saturday night, early Sunday morning will melt away any last remnant of snowfall, Steve said.
“Whatever doesn’t melt Saturday afternoon, it’ll melt when it gets rained on,” Steve said.
Correlating with the snow melt will be improving road conditions. Steve said a lot of progress has been made since Thursday, and come the weekend, the roads should be in decent shape.
“There’s still going to be spots but we got full sun and there’s been good opportunity for road crews to get on it,” Steve said. “Saturday, roads will be better than they are today and by Sunday the thing we’ll be looking for - there may be some nuisance ponding in some low lying areas because of the rain with the snow melt added to it.”
Steve said the heaviest rainfall is projected to land in the same area that received the heaviest snowfall. One to one and-a-half inches of rain are forecast for Lexington, which could produce minor flooding since the rain will melt the water-dense snow-pack.
Upwards of 9.9 inches of snow fell in Lexington Thursday.
This story was originally published January 7, 2022 at 3:33 PM.
