CLEVELAND — Showers are entering Northeast Ohio from the southwest this evening. It will generally be light to steady rain for the evening and early overnight hours, with the best chance for consistent rain/highest totals being south of Akron. Plan on some nuisance impacts for Friday night plans, including football and holiday travel. Watch for some mud on the field and puddles on the roads.
Rainfall totals will be around 0.10-0.25 inches for the southern half of our viewing area and less than a tenth of an inch for our northernmost communities, like in Cleveland, Sandusky, Mentor and Ashtabula.
A couple of light and isolated showers are expected early on Saturday, but most of the weekend looks dry. After the rain ends around sunrise on Saturday, plan for cool, but not cold temperatures, the rest of the day as the clouds try to clear. Highs will likely be a couple degrees cooler than Friday, in the mid-40s or so, but milder air is expected to return on Sunday and into early next week. Highs will be in the 50s Sunday through Tuesday.
Let's talk Turkey! Thanksgiving week starts dry on Monday, but rain is expected to return by Tuesday. Tuesday is looking wet and mild! We will be flirting with the mid-50s to even the low 60s! However, the warm-up does not last long. The next system bringing rain will then pull significantly colder air by Thanksgiving and Black Friday.
With colder temperatures and lingering moisture, lake effect snow is also possible on Thanksgiving or Black Friday as well. It is still nearly a week out, and there are many moving parts in the atmosphere, including the critical wind direction that is responsible for producing the lake effect. So, expect updates to the forecast. We will keep you posted all week long. Stay tuned!
DAILY FORECAST:
Tonight: Rain showers likely. Chilly | Low: 37º
Saturday: Mostly cloudy. Drying out early. Cooler. | High: 46º
Sunday: Dry and mild. Perhaps a sprinkle to the NE.| High: 50º
Monday: Clouds return, still nice. Rain is possible by Monday night. | High: 53º
Tuesday: Looking wet and mild. | High: 57º
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