Wild Wednesday!

A wild Wednesday is in store for us. We’ll get everything from heavy rains, that could cause some localized flooding. We’ll also see the warmest temperatures of the year and Winter season with highs near 60! Add to that strong winds that will blow through tonight. Here’s the outlook from the NWS:

…HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM
EST THURSDAY…

STRONG WINDS WILL DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AS A COLD FRONT
APPROACHES THE REGION. THE COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP THROUGH OHIO THIS EVENING
AND INTO PENNSYLVANIA EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. SUSTAINED WINDS
BETWEEN 30 AND 40 MPH WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS TO 60 MPH OR GREATER
WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY MORNING ACROSS THE ENTIRE
AREA. WINDS WILL LIKELY TAPER OFF ACROSS NORTHWEST OHIO AROUND
DAYBREAK THURSDAY BUT WILL LIKELY LINGER UNTIL MID MORNING ACROSS
EASTERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA.

Gusts 60 MPH or higher could easily bring trees down and cause folks to lose power.

We’ll be getting a rain break through the latter part of the morning before the winds kick up later this afternoon.

We are also under a Slight Risk for Severe Thunderstorms.

All of this is adding to a Wild Weather Wednesday! I’m Meteorologist Jason Nicholas.

An Amazing January. Cold & Snowy!

January 2009.  It will go down in the history books.  You’ll talk about it to your kids and grand kids.  It was almost as rough as the Blizzard of 1978, which people still talk about today.  Unfortunately for me, I don’t remember that January or I could compare it to this January.

January 2009 kind of snuck up on us.  It was only until the last week when we started thinking it could make a run at 1978.  An unusual 5 inches fell over a weekend, and then, of course the big storm last Wednesday, which also came at us last minute.  Typically, we see those storms from about 7 days out, however this kind of made a turn toward us about a day or 2 out only.

Here are the numbers for January 2009 in Cleveland.  Many thanks to the great people out at National Weather Service for keeping our stats:

We had 21 days where our highs didn’t reach the freezing mark, and only 2 days we reached 40!

Snow-wise, we had 40.5″.  The record was 42.8″ in 1978.  It was more than 23 inches above normal!  Second most all time.

And, for the month, we were about 5 – 7 degrees below normal.  It was a cold and snowy month.

Here’s to a better February!  I’m Meteorologist Jason Nicholas.