Why Forecasters Are Growing More Confident About January 2026 Winter Storm – Impacts expected across Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and Tennessee
Earlier in the week, I wrote about a possible winter storm that meteorologists were tracking. We’re no strangers to winter weather around here, so I wasn’t overly concerned. Plus, weather forecasting that far out isn’t always very accurate. I’m no meteorologist, but the ones I trust, the ones who don’t constantly post that the sky is falling on social media just to scare people, kept saying, “Wait and see.”
National Weather Service Says It’s Time to Prepare
Well, now that we’re a few days out, our friends at the National Weather Service are saying it’s probably time to grab your bread, eggs, and milk because we are officially under a French Toast Watch.
According to a post from NOAA this morning, an expansive winter storm is expected to produce heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain across the eastern part of the country. Overnight, the band shifted north. Earlier in the week, models showed middle Tennessee around Nashville taking the hardest hit. Now it looks like northern Tennessee, southern Indiana and Illinois, and Kentucky could be ground zero, along with much of the Tri-State region.
Neat.
What the National Weather Service Is Saying
According to the National Weather Service:…