Back on Sunday, January 16, 1994 – all eyes were glued to a rapidly changing forecast, as a potent storm was about to wallop Kentuckiana with several inches of snow by Monday morning.
Leading up to the event, the forecast had ranged from the possibility of heavy snow to a wintry mix that would feature mainly rain with only a small amount of snow during the onset of precipitation. The precipitation started falling as freezing rain during the mid-evening hours of January 16th. It came down hard and the temperature was way below freezing. The ice accumulated for a few hours, before it finally changed over to snow shortly before midnight on the 17th.
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