The quiet in the center of the storm

Daisy pulled a fast one on us. She was expected to move into central Pennsylvania and then head north. Instead she just kept heading west until she got near Pittsburgh/Youngstown and then took the turn. at 6pm this evening, as you can see by the wind map below, the center of Sandy was right along the Ohio/PA border. That put us near what would have been the eye of the storm when it was tropical. As a result the wind died down considerably this afternoon. Since the heaviest wind is on the west side of the storm, central Ohio was the area that celebrated a windiest afternoon.

As we go through the overnight, Sandy should move far enough away from us that the wind will increase once again. It won't be as windy as last night, but it will still become quite breezy. Last night we experienced a 45mph wind gust at the Weather Center in Streetsboro just after 2am.

Rainfall was fairly heavy today. As of 6pm we had collected .80" at the Weather Center giving us a total of 3.30" since the rain began on Saturday. By the time this whole system moves away, which should be during the day Friday, we expect to have had over 4" of rainfall this week.

In the meantime, just sit back for another couple of days and enjoy the clouds, the wind, and the rain. Based on the current forecast we should finally see the sun again on Saturday, but it's only Tuesday evening, so you never know.