Cooler Wednesday, frost alerts for tonight

Columbus and Central Ohio Weather

QUICK WEATHER FORECAST:

• Today: Slow clearing, breezy, high 55

• Tonight: Partly cloudy, frost, low 33

• Thursday: Mostly sunny, high 62

• Friday: More clouds, showers late, high 73

• Saturday: Sct’d storms, breezy, high 77

• Sunday: Some sun, iso. storm, high 82

FORECAST DISCUSSION:

Happy Wednesday!

Rain has cleared the region, and drier, albeit colder air is settling in. Expect cloud coverage most of the morning, before clouds slowly begin to break into the afternoon and evening. Highs drop back to the middle 50s this afternoon, with a slight breeze.

Freeze alerts then take effect tonight, as clearer skies allow for a steep temperature drop, back near freezing into Thursday morning. If you have outdoor plants, you’ll want to cover them or bring them inside.

For Thursday afternoon, we’ll see mainly sunny skies, with highs back into the lower 60s, with less of a breeze.

We really heat up on Friday, with highs into the lower 70s, and partly cloudy skies. We’ll be dry most of Friday, before scattered showers move in Friday night into Saturday.

We will see some shower chances this weekend, but it’s far from a washout, and not a weekend everyone will see rain or storms. It will be very pop-up type activity, and very scattered, as our southerly flow kicks in. That warms us up, but also increases our moisture. Highs will be in the upper 70s Saturday, low 80s Sunday, with a strong wind both days.

-McKenna

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