LOW pressure over Chicago will move up over NW Ohio during the day on Thursday and that will keep the rain and flooding in the forecast. The next element of concern comes when the colder air moves into NE Ohio Thursday night. The rain will transition into snow. The question at this point is how much snow will fall. NWS is looking for the LOW to deepen and dump lots of snow in the region...like 6 to 12 inches by Friday evening. I'm not sure I want to jump on that bandwagon just yet. At this time I'm going to go with a more conservative 3-6 inches by midday Friday until we see if the storm system really winds up.
No matter which way you go with the snowfall totals, the temperatures will be just a few degrees below freezing and that means this is going to be a heavy, wet snow. It will accumulate rapidly and will put a lot of pressure on tree branches and power lines. It could be a bit messy during the morning on Friday.
We'll watch this overnight and see how it looks Thursday morning.
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