Here comes Fall!

Rainfall tonight (Monday) and tomorrow (Tuesday) across our
area will total 3/4" to 1". You can see by the purple and red
that much heavier amounts of rain will fall to our southeast
and east.  (Map courtesy of NOAA)

Some real Fall weather is on the way to NE Ohio. A cold front will cross over the region tomorrow morning. The front combined with a rain system from the south will dump from 3/4" to 1" of rain across our area tonight and tomorrow.

After the front passes, daytime high temperatures will remain in the 60s and lower 70s the rest of this week right on through next week.

So, it's time to warm up the furnace and get out the sweaters and jackets. A real taste of Fall is on the way.

Rain, rain, where did you go?

Radar at 3pm Monday shows isolated
storms developing across northern Ohio.

I don't think anybody is complaining much, because it turned out to be a not-so-bad holiday weekend. As you know, we were predicting lots of clouds and rain, but it never happened. A rain band from Isaac moved through late day Saturday and that was just about it, except for a few other isolated areas of rain and storms. Just as Isaac stalled off the Louisiana coast when it was a hurricane, the remains headed north up the Mississippi and then stalled out over southern Illinois and Indiana. We expected the system to move to the east over the weekend but it did not. As a result, the rain never happened. This afternoon (Monday) while it has been cloudy and rainy in southern and central Ohio much of the morning, it's been mostly sunny and very muggy up here in the north. That has prompted some convective storms to develop across northern Ohio (see the radar map). This activity will continue until sunset, then dissipate. The same thing will likely happen tomorrow afternoon and evening. Meanwhile, I hope you had a pleasant Labor Day and if you had to work, thanks for laboring.