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A winter weather advisory is in effect for the central part of the Commonwealth until Sunday night. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Several counties in Kentucky are under a winter weather advisory until Sunday night.

Students around the Louisville metro did not have to go out in single-digit temperatures Wednesday morning. Most school districts in the region opted for nontraditional instruction.

A sprawling winter storm that is pushing slowly across the United States will bring a risk of severe weather and excessive rainfall to a large part of the south-central United States from Wednesday into Friday. Isolated thunderstorms, flooding rains and damaging winds are all possible in an area between East Texas and western Kentucky.

A cold weather advisory remains in effect for much of Central Kentucky until 10 a.m. Wednesday, per the NWS. Expect cold temperatures to stick around throughout the day. The forecast high is near 25 degrees, with a low around 18 degrees Wednesday evening.

The front may avoid parched Phoenix, however, where no rain has been measured at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in more than five months. "Locally heavy snow" and snow s

Snow started falling after Jackie laid her second egg Jan. 25 in her nest overlooking Big Bear Lake, Friends of Big Bear Valley said in a Facebook post. Jackie is seen on the nonprofit’s live camera blanketed in snow on Jan. 27. Jackie is seen nuzzling her beak into the snow Jan. 27. Screengrab from FOBBV CAM

A Corbin police officer saved a woman stranded in her vehicle on the side of I-75 in the freezing temperatures.

While Milwaukee's snowfall has lagged, other areas of the country, especially southern states along the Gulf Coast, had a rare winter snowstorm this week. And because of earlier snowstorms through the mid-south, some areas have surprising snowfalls this winter.

Indianapolis received 15.5 inches by storm's end. According to the National Weather Service, the Blizzard of '78 set other records, including the most snow in one month in Indianapolis (30.6 inches) and the most snow on the ground in Indianapolis (20 inches, which included 5 inches already on the ground from a snowstorm the previous weekend).

Snow is much less dense than a rain drop, so it doesn't make a sound when it falls. Aside from that, a study from the University of Kentucky shows that falling snow absorbs 60% of sound as it falls. Once it is on the ground and compacts, however, it can act like a barrier and actually amplify the sound.

Mother Nature's sunny, warmish forecast holds true into Wednesday, but a storm takes hold for the second half of the week. Warm, but wet and windy weather is expected on Thursday and Friday.