A real blast of winter will be a preview to this Christmas weekend across the Commonwealth. Arctic air combines with a weather system moving across the U.S. to create a major drop in temperatures along with some freezing precipitation. Temperatures are expected to fall some 40 degrees over several hours early Friday. Chase Graham is a meteorologist in the National Weather Service office in Louisville. He said the central Kentucky region is likely to see a quick move from rain to snow, but it’s not expected to mean a buildup of ice.
“Not in the sense like freezing rain which would stick to the power lines and cause them to get weighed down and break. Really, the chance for power outages might be due to just the strength of the wind,” said Graham.
