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FRANKFORT, Ky. (FOX 56) — Winter Storm Blair has brought what The Associated Press deemed the "heaviest snowfall successful a decade."
On Sunday evening, Gov. Andy Beshear issued an update regarding the storm's interaction connected the Commonwealth.
"This adjacent play of clip wherever we're going to spot crystal crossed the Commonwealth is possibly the astir concerning," Beshear said.
Over 38,600 homes and businesses are without powerfulness arsenic of 8 p.m., and this fig is expected to emergence arsenic snowfall turns to crystal crossed the bluegrass.
“This is conscionable the beginning,” Beshear cautioned, noting that the astir unsafe signifier of the tempest is inactive ahead.
On Sunday, the governor's bureau stated Kentucky saw anyplace from six to 8 inches of snow. Central Kentucky, including Louisville, Lexington, and Frankfort, faces the highest hazard done Sunday evening, with crystal accumulations perchance reaching unsafe levels, up to three-quarters of an inch.
Beshear emphasized that the tempest is expected to persist done Monday night, piling a broad of snowfall connected apical of a glaze of crystal successful cardinal Kentucky that's expected to instrumentality astir owed to an "arctic blast" that's expected midweek.
More than 2,300 authorities proscription workers and implicit 100 National Guard members person been deployed, with the Guard beingness expected to turn up to 400 arsenic the concern develops.
"Each 1 of those individuals has a household that they near to effort to support us," Beshear said. "So delight enactment home, fto them cleanable the roads, and beryllium truly careful.
Residents are advised to hole for extended powerfulness outages, banal exigency supplies, and find adjacent warming centers if needed.
"Let's get done this latest happening Mother Nature's thrown astatine us, and let's get done it together," Beshear signed off.
