Sunny skies and warmer temperatures, rain showers on the way
Columbus and Central Ohio Weather
QUICK WEATHER FORECAST:
Today: Mainly sunny, high 62
Tonight: Clouds increasing, low 44
Tuesday: Rain showers, high 64 (47)
Wednesday: Mostly cloudy, high 56 (34)
Thursday: Mainly sunny, high 63 (43)
Friday: Chance of rain showers, high 74 (59)
FORECAST DISCUSSION:
Plenty of sunshine will stick around the rest of the afternoon. Temperatures closer to seasonable return to central Ohio. Daytime highs will reach the low 60s. Winds will be mainly light, coming from the southwest at 3-7 mph. Get out and enjoy the sunny skies today.
Overnight as a cold front nears, more clouds will begin to increase across the region. Skies will become partly cloudy by the morning commute. Temperatures will stay well above the freezing point. Lows will only fall to the mid 40s. The threat for frost is done for now, but there will be one other chance later this week.
A cold front will bring rain showers that will move across the area Tuesday afternoon into early Wednesday morning. Close to a quarter inch of rain will fall, bringing Columbus’s total precipitation totals for April close to 6 inches. There will be a brief midweek drop in temperatures. Lows Wednesday night into Thursday will be close to the freezing point.
A rebound in temps starts this weekend. Friday will bring additional rain shower chances. More rain and a few thunderstorms will move through the weekend. During this time highs will top off in the mid 70s Friday and close to the 80 degree mark between Saturday and Sunday.
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