By Rose Krzton-Presson
Murray, KY – The National Weather Service of Paducah is tracking the patterns of La Nina this winter. The storm system is causing warmer temperatures in southeastern states. Meteorologist Jim Packett says it wouldn't take much to turn the region's rain into ice.
"All you have to have is below freezing temperatures at the surface and above freezing above the ground. It falls as rain from the cloud and it strikes the Earths' surface and when it's freezing or below, it freezes. You get a bunch of ice."
Packett expects steady precipitation- whether rain or ice- to continue through the month. He says we've already broken record levels; however, the extreme amount of precipitation is unlikely to freeze in levels like the Ice Storm.
"The chances to get a bonafide ice storm around here like a couple of years ago in '09- that's a fairly rare event, those are like a once every hundred year phenomena. It's not uncommon to get a little something here and there."
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