EVANSVILLE – The Evansville area could see “impactful” snow and dangerously cold temperatures this weekend. But as of now, the latter is more certain than the former.
The Paducah, Kentucky, office of the National Weather Service said in a bulletin Tuesday morning that it’s still too early to say if Southwestern Indiana and Western Kentucky will see serious effects from a winter storm that will sweep across the Midwest and South sometime between Friday night and Sunday morning.
The NWS currently gives Evansville a 30-50% shot of getting at least 1 inch to 2 inches of snow. There’s an outside chance of seeing as much as 4 inches.
“Currently the system looks to be cold enough to keep the precipitation in the form of snow,” NWS meteorologist Keith Cooley wrote in an email to media outlets. “However, a shift in the track could still allow for a wintry mix.”
How cold is it going to get in Evansville?
Cooley and others are more bullish on the cold. And according to the latest forecast, it’s going to be brutal.
Temperatures on Wednesday and Thursday should be normal for January, with highs lingering between the upper-30s and mid-40s. By Friday, however, that will start to spiral.
The high that day should top out at 25 degrees, with a wind chill of 2 degrees. Somehow it’ll only get worse from there. Saturday’s wind chill could plummet as low as minus-4. Sunday will be Florida-esque by comparison, with a wind chill of zero.
What about ice?
This January brought the one-year anniversary of the miserable ice storm that walloped Evansville in 2025, leaving tens of thousands of people without power.
There’s nothing like that in the NWS forecast for Evansville.
“They’re not predicting any ice as of right now,” senior meteorologist Brian Miller told the Courier & Press Tuesday morning.
The southern half of the U.S., though, may not be so lucky. According to the NWS Weather Prediction Center, portions of everywhere from central Texas to the Carolinas could see a barrage of “dangerous ice” similar to the January 2025 storm, bringing the possibility of widespread tree damage and zapped power.
As far as the Tri-State, details on the snow potential will become clearer in the next couple of days.
Evansville weather radar
This article originally appeared on Evansville Courier & Press: Brutal cold and ‘impactful’ snow possible for Evansville, Tri-State
Reporting by Jon Webb, Evansville Courier & Press / Evansville Courier & Press
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