Get that heavy coat ready.

A winter blast is headed to Kentucky with when rain, snow and plummeting temperatures.

Our Kristi Dalton finds out what our hit and what we should expect.

Wild weather moves in this week and we start with a wind advisory.

We end up in the deep freeze.

Michael Kucharski is the warning coordinator from the National Weather Service in Louisville joins us.

Okay, Michael, what the system is bringing these big weather changes in this weekend?

So we have a big low pressure system.

We call it a bomb cyclone where it just becomes massively as it moves across the state.

And that's why we're going to see that big wind, maybe some store potential, too, maybe a little snow and definitely that cold air coming in by next week.

Okay.

So this bomb cyclone, we're really going to start feeling the effects really tomorrow for Friday.

So Friday we go under an advisory.

What can we expect as a lot of people are starting to head into a long weekend?

Sure.

We have very high confidence that you're going to see wind gusts between 45, 55 miles per hour, maybe even higher than that in some storms.

So not a great travel day if you're traveling at a higher profile vehicle, especially, be very careful as you are on the roadways.

And we're expecting rain, too, for Friday.

So it's windy and rainy.

Any flooding potential.

Ponding waters most we're concerned with on the highways.

So it'll be like an inch or two.

Kentucky seen that before.

So we're not really expecting a flooding, flash flooding like that.

But if you're traveling with the wind and like you mentioned, slick roadways with rain, not a great travel date.

So don't travel if you don't have to.

But if you are, you have to be careful.

Of the wind, the rain Friday, then what happens on Saturday?

So Saturday, that's when the colder air starts coming in.

You might see a little bit of snow flakes Saturday morning, maybe a 10th of an inch or so.

Nothing not a big deal, but our attention is really turning towards Sunday night into Monday.

We're seeing a lot of cold air coming in, probably the coldest since Christmas of 22 November.

That cold air came in.

Something very similar to that.

Yeah, we're going to see zero degree temperatures, maybe windchills up to -15, -20.

So very cold.

Be sure to bundle up.

So I know that most of January's record low temperatures are in the negative numbers.

So this may not be record breaking, but certainly cold enough to have an impact on a lot of plants, probably too, like we saw a couple of years ago or last year.

And that was yeah, the poor box lids.

They're not doing too good because of that cold temperature.

So if you have any sensitive plants, you know, try to protect them as best you can, but that cold is going to be a deep freeze.

Yeah, absolutely.

Okay.

What about roadways, especially for folks maybe traveling on?

You know, you said Friday would be a bad day, but what about once those temperatures drop in?

There might be a few snowflakes flying.

Sure.

So there's a lot of uncertainty for the next week system into Monday, Martin Luther King Day, we're seeing anywhere from we can end up with zero.

We could end up with 4 to 6 inches of snow.

So there's still a lot of uncertainty.

And we recommend people stay current on their forecasts, their forecast apps or go to weather dot gov and click on the map for our latest forecast information.

We're still quite uncertain at this point, but there could be some impacts across the area roadways.

And if you're out and traveling about, it could be slick.

Okay.

Well, Michael, you stay warm.

We'll try to do the same.

Thank you so much.

You're welcome, Christi.

Thank you.

Thank you, Christine.

Here are a few things to keep in mind as the winds pick up and the mercury drops.

Tomorrow is when could cause power outages for some.

Never run generators indoors.

Leave faucets dripping to prevent pipes located along outside walls from freezing.

Dress in warm layers and wear a hat and gloves.

And last but not least, bring those pets inside and cover those box woods.

This time around.