560 AWUS83 KJKL 230952 RWSJKL KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-232100- REGIONAL WEATHER SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 452 AM EST SUN NOV 23 2008 THE CLOUDS THINNED OUT AFTER MIDNIGHT LAST NIGHT AND THIS ALLOWED THE TEMPERATURES TO START DROPPING. AT 4 AM THIS MORNING...THE TEMPERATURES AROUND THE COAL FIELDS VARIED FROM 20 TO THE MID 20S. TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO DROP FOR A FEW MORE HOURS AND EXPECT TO SEE SOME OF THE COLDER VALLEYS TO HAVE TEMPERATURES DROP DOWN INTO THE TEENS. TODAY WILL START OUT BRIGHT AND SUNNY AND THEN SOME HIGH CLOUDS WILL START STREAMING INTO THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. A COLD FRONT WILL BE APPROACHING THE REGION...BRINGING A CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. THE PRECIPITATION WILL START AS RAIN AND THEN AS IT MOVES FURTHER INTO EASTERN KENTUCKY...WILL BECOME A MIX OF SNOW AND RAIN WITH SOME POCKETS OF FREEZING RAIN FORMING IN SOME OF THE COLDER VALLEYS. IT WILL THEN TURN TO ALL RAIN BY MID MORNING ON MONDAY WITH RAIN CONTINUING THROUGHOUT THE DAY. ON MONDAY EVENING...THE RAIN WILL BECOME MORE INTERMITTENT AND START MIXING WITH SNOW. IT WILL TURN TO ALL SNOW NEAR DAWN ON TUESDAY. ISOLATED SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THE HIGHS TODAY WILL SEEM BALMY AS THEY WILL BE NEAR THE 50 DEGREE SEASONABLE AVERAGE. THE LOW TEMPERATURES TONIGHT WILL DROP TO NEAR THE FREEZING LEVEL. ON THIS DATE IN WEATHER HISTORY...IN 1970...AT THE LONDON CORBIN AIRPORT...THE FIRST OF THREE CONSECUTIVE RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES WERE RECORDED...WHEN THE MERCURY DROPPED DOWN TO A CHILLY 13 DEGREES. $$ JJ