Took another raincheck with posting yesterday, as I had the opportunity to attend the Ohio Stormwater Conference up in Sandusky, OH where several different stormwater utility providers, design firms, engineers, and support personnel met. A few times throughout the event, individual conversations drifted to how Ohio's spring has really gone over to particularly wet in the last 30-40 days, especially in Northern Ohio where the event was being held. This got me thinking where th

On a typical schedule, this blog will post longer forecasts on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday with shorter forecast "updates" and other content on Tuesday and Thursday. That cadence has been a little out of whack due to just starting out, getting into a routine, and tinkering with a couple other methods of content delivery. However, now that a little bit of a rhythm has been established, we're going to take a crack at a longer post. The run-of-show for these longer posts will

After a weekend which saw widespread frost/freeze conditions in the early mornings, especially in parts of western and southern Ohio, Monday gave us a warm start to the week with temperatures rising into the 70°F range across the state. A fairly marginal risk for scattered severe thunderstorms in parts of Northwest Ohio held off producing anything of interest until after dark, as a slow moving cold front finally began its approach to the region. Clusters of moderate rain did

Throughout the week, the story has been the buildup to a much cooler-than-normal temperature pattern being ushered in by a change in the jet stream. Now as we prepare to close the period, we are about to experience the first of multiple shots of late season cold. While this pattern will put a hold on the active severe weather pattern both Ohio and the greater Midwest have been experiencing, chances for rain and isolated storms will not halt completely as multiple disturbances