The National Weather Service in Louisville has warned that a winter storm forecast Sunday and Monday to drop “significant snow and ice” on a broad swath of central Kentucky and southern Indiana could leave power outages in its wake.
The weather service issued a winter storm watch set to take effect from 4 a.m. Sunday until 1 p.m. Monday, saying the anticipated wintry mix of precipitation including snow, sleet and freezing rain, will bring accumulations that could damage trees and power lines.
Recent winter storms left thousands of Kentuckians without power including the 2009 ice storm that left 654,122 customers without power across the commonwealth less than a year after the remnants of Hurricane Ike left thousands in the dark…