A Winter Weather Advisory has been issued for Cuyahoga, Lake, Geauga, Ashtabula, Portage & Trumbull counties. Lake effect snow setting up late Friday into the weekend could drop up to six inches by Saturday night, where squalls persist. The highest totals will be farther east with lower totals to the west.
Scattered lake-effect snow will develop overnight as a very cold arctic air mass spills in from the northwest. Accumulations area-wide will range from a trace to about 3 inches in the persistent snow bands. Lows tonight will drop down into the lower and middle 20s by sunrise. Wind chills will hang in the teens and high single digits.
Cold, arctic air and some lake-effect snow move in for the weekend. Highs on Saturday and Sunday will get stuck in the middle and upper 20s with breezy winds on Saturday and calmer conditions by Sunday.
It will be cold if you're going to Columbus for the Ohio State game! Temperatures at game-time will be in the middle 20s under partly cloudy skies.
A Lake Erie, Lake Huron connection will add a few inches of snow to the primary snow belt of Ashtabula County and parts of Lake and Geauga counties on Saturday and early Sunday. Where this snow band persists, we could see three to six inches of accumulation for Saturday through Sunday morning. For the rest of us, it's light snow and flurries on Saturday and dry weather on Sunday.
Looks like a Green Christmas for most of us this year. Scattered rain showers arrive on Christmas Eve and linger into Christmas morning with warming temps. Highs on Tuesday will reach into the upper 30s. Highs on Christmas Day should jump to near 40 degrees. Ho. Ho. Ho.
DAILY FORECAST:
Friday Night: Scattered lake-effect snow. Tr-3". Cold.| Low: 24º
Saturday: Lake effect snow showers, mainly east. 2-6" in heavier bands. Colder & breezy.| High: 26º Chills in the teens.
Sunday: Lake effect snow showers - mainly east & early. Still cold.| High: 27º
Monday: Drier. Chilly. A wintry mix is possible late.| High: 38º
Christmas Eve: Scattered rain could mix with wet snow at times - especially early. | High: 40º
Christmas Day: Cloudy & cool. Green.| High: 44º
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