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32 degrees and 1.5" down.   Snowing nicely, very low ratio.   Should get some lake response tonight as well.  

No accumulation, but there were flakes last night.  

1 hour ago, BuffaloWeather said:

Where do you live on this map?

Just south of the "h" in Chardon, across from the "notch feature" in the county.

Congrats on the first flakes everyone!   Getting ours here in NE Ohio as well.   Will most likely be switching to rain soon.  Possible some light accums tonight.  Glad to get the season started. 

Pretty good chance of first flakes tomorrow night.  After that, we could certainly use a dry stretch to get fall cleanup done.  

Pretty good lake Huron fetch going on most of the afternoon.   The leaves have made alot of progress the past week, quickly turning and falling.  

On 10/18/2021 at 9:00 AM, NEOH said:

The Spring season does seem shorter than normal, and late Spring cold shots seem much more common. It has been warm this Fall but overall I haven't noticed much difference from previous years. 

We have a lot of blackberry bushes on our property and the heavy snowfall last December crushed most of the mature bushes. They started to grow back this Summer but it will take a few years. 

Ya if anything, the spring time is much shorter lately.  Accumulating snow in April has been pretty common, with even early May seeing accumulating snow the past few years.  

Hoping we can hold off a substantial snow this fall as the leaves are definitely behind schedule this year.  

Looks like a good setup for lake effect rain this weekend and more typical October weather. 

"lake-effect rain showers and graupel over and east-southeast of Lake Erie as cold air deepens and
lake-induced CAPE builds to moderate to strong magnitudes.
Isolated lake-effect thunderstorms are possible since model
soundings over the lake depict lake-induced CAPE of at least 200
J/kg in the primary charge separation zone (i.e. the cloud
temperature range from 0C to -20C in the CAPE profile). Daytime
highs should reach the upper 50`s to lower 60`s; much more
typical for mid-October.

Flow aloft becomes northwesterly Saturday night as a longwave
ridge builds from the west. At the surface, a thermal trough
lingers over the Great Lakes while a ridge attempts to build
from the Great Plains. Multiple bands of lake-effect rain
showers and isolated thunderstorms should persist east-
southeast of Lake Erie Saturday night as a well-aligned west-
northwesterly flow of cold and moist air continues and lake-
induced CAPE remains moderate to strong. Odds favor fair weather
outside the lake-effect precip. Overnight lows should reach the
40`s inland to near 50 degrees along the shore of ~67F Lake
Erie."
 

On 10/4/2021 at 8:35 AM, NEOH said:

Color change in full gear now. Noticing quite a bit of reddish color... similar to last year. The leaves are falling quickly after turning. 

This past week the leaves have really started to quickly turn and fall.  Not a lot of time to enjoy them as in years past it seems. 

Great October weather, looks like 70s for at least a week.  Let's keep the lake warm for another month.  

On 9/15/2021 at 4:25 PM, NEOH said:

CLE's always slow. Hoping for a decent LES season. Is this what you are referring to?  https://www.weather.gov/cle/Climate_Snowfall_2019-20

Yep that's it.  They're usually almost a season behind when they update lately.  

2 hours ago, NEOH said:

Noticing some color starting to pop locally. Picked up .75" of rain last night... after the dry start to September we needed it. 

Pulled the mix/max departures for the Summer. Probably fair to say the min's are responsible for the positive departures . I doubt anyone would classify this Summer as a scorcher. 

CLEVELAND 
                     
AVG. MAXIMUM    81.8               81.8     0.0
AVG. MINIMUM    64.6               63.4     1.2
MEAN            73.2               72.6     0.6

Toledo 

AVG. MAXIMUM    85.2               84.5     0.7
AVG. MINIMUM    65.7               62.5     3.2
MEAN            75.4               73.5     1.9

Akron/Canton

AVG. MAXIMUM    83.2               82.5     0.7
AVG. MINIMUM    64.7               61.5     3.2
MEAN            74.0               72.0     2.0

YNG

 

AVG. MAXIMUM    81.9               80.9     1.0
AVG. MINIMUM    61.5               58.4     3.1
MEAN            71.7               69.6     2.1

Erie 

AVG. MAXIMUM    80.8               79.4     1.4
AVG. MINIMUM    66.1               62.3     3.8
MEAN            73.4               70.8     2.6

MFD

AVG. MAXIMUM    83.6               81.2     2.4
AVG. MINIMUM    64.8               60.6     4.2
MEAN            74.2               70.9     3.3

Ya, figured it was the lows.... definitely not a hot summer by any means. 

Color change is underway, hoping for a pleasant fall season.  

Let's hope the wet pattern can continue into winter.  Speaking of winter...any idea why it takes Cle so long to post the winter observation totals?   I always like comparing what I/we measure against other snowbelt areas. 

3 hours ago, NEOH said:

Idk. Seemed normal temp wise and very wet  on the eastside of CLE. It would be interesting to see the max/min departures. I'm guessing the min's are responsible. 

Agreed, this summer was wet and humid.   Night time lows most likely causing this.

Quite the storm yesterday evening.  That was the first time I've received a push emergency weather alert on my phone for a severe thunderstorm warning.  We had power flicker, but never went out.  Looks like just southwest of here there were alot of power outages.  More storms this morning.... really adding to the wet summer total.  

Starting to notice some trees getting some early color.  Wonder if the wet, cloudy summer causes that?

1 hour ago, NEOH said:

Crazy amount of smoke out there today. No clouds with a barely visible sun. Honestly can't recall anything like this. 

Ya the milky sky is something else lately.  Seems like we had a few days like that last year, but seems more pronounced at least today. 

On 7/19/2021 at 10:04 AM, NEOH said:

I'm currently at 10.04" of rain for the month IMBY... most of that came last week. We could really use a dry week. 

Just incredible, what a Summer so far.  At least this week is much drier, but the yard is still too soft for the tractor.    What was your June total?   

On 7/14/2021 at 9:05 AM, NEOH said:

At least tomorrow looks nice... then back to rain. Over 6" for the month with last nights storms. 

Another day, another few inches of rain.   Just incredible lately.  

21 hours ago, NEOH said:

Not counting any rain that falls today I'm at 7.60" for the month of June. We've been in the jackpot zone locally... while the airport has mostly been missed by the storms this month. CLE will probably finish right around average with precip. 

It's been an incredibly wet June, and noticeably more humid this past week.  Looks like it clears up in time for holiday activities. 

4 hours ago, NEOH said:

Great weekend for t'storms locally. Over 5" of rain for the month of June so everything is lush. 

Sure has been, several days in a row with good storms this weekend.  The thunder yesterday afternoon was almost continuous.... something I don't think I've heard before like that.  We were kayaking in Burton, and made it out just in time.   

Probably another inch from today's storms.   

23 hours ago, NEOH said:

Picked up 2.28" of rain yesterday. Very localized heavy rainfall. Should be more widespread today. 

Caught a few heavy downpours while we were out yesterday evening.   The humidity sure has cranked up the past few days.

5 hours ago, NEOH said:

Just a little frost out there this morning... hopefully that was the last of it. What a great week of sunny weather. The ground should actually be dry enough to mow this weekend. 

Finally a pleasant dry stretch of weather.  Very much welcomed after last weekends trip back to winter.   Should be a great weekend for yard work.

42 minutes ago, NEOH said:

Snow is coming down pretty hard... and accumulating on the grass and trees. Not often you see this at midday in May. I thought the mets said it wasn't going to snow. 

Temp down to 33.  Starting to stick to driveway and street.  Crazy. 

Looks like this will be the second mother's day in a row that we have snow.   Moderate snow, huge flakes and ground starting to whiten. 

Edit; The huge flakes didn't last too long.  Definitely impressive for May though.

7 minutes ago, TimB84 said:

I deleted the offending post, I’ll admit it was a bit of a low blow though directed at Ohio, not you specifically.

Same here, let's move on

1 hour ago, schoeppeya said:

Im with you here, if people havent realized the media sensationalizes headlines and stretches the truth for clicks I dont know what to say

Yes, the media sensationalizes.  

There are not people dropping dead in the streets from covid.  

Almost as good as the people in China that were supposedly passing out in the streets from the virus.  Glad people are catching on.