So there's a lot of things that we
have to talk about transitioning.
To some eyes now, this is not nearly as big
of an issue as what we see on the roadways,
but this morning I was watching out
there as I was driving into work.
There is a little bit of
ice on the windshield.
It's just going to be a quick scrape for you.
So as you head out the door,
grab your coffee, everything will be AOK.
Now it is cold this morning,
just like we were talking about.
We're looking at numbers in the
teens and with a win now out of the
West at 7 mph feels more like 9.
Now that is cold,
but we're going to be significantly.
Colder than this morning heading
towards the end of this week.
Let's go and show you some of
the colder air that's on the way.
These are high temperatures
for the next seven days.
Alright, so today, tomorrow,
Wednesday, Thursday,
we actually begin to climb
back up to the 40s.
But after that,
here comes that dangerously
cold air temperatures.
Again,
these are high temperatures only in the
teens by Saturday and heading into Sunday.
Now, what's going to be driving
in this really cold air?
Well, let's start things off with the winds.
The winds are going to be a big issue.
For us as we go through Thursday,
heading into Friday,
so wind gusts forecast, you know,
as we go through 11:00 o'clock on Thursday
nights, still not looking too bad,
but when we wake up early on Friday morning,
winds could be gusting between 40 and 50 mph.
That is some strong winds
blowing into central Ohio.
The wind stays elevated all the way
through the lunchtime hour on Friday.
Here's 5:00 PM that is the
forecast of wind gusts at 54 miles.
Per hour.
That's again Friday afternoon.
With that said, with the cold air moving in,
the winds actually make it
feel even colder than that.
And again, this is something we
don't see a lot of in central Ohio.
Take a look at this.
This is the projected wind chill forecast
when we wake up early on Friday morning,
still not feeling too, too terrible.
But the later we get into the morning,
maybe when you're waking up,
maybe you have the day off -.
11 is what it'll feel like by 7:00
AM and as we get later into the day,
by noon on Friday,
it's going to feel more like -, 20 outside.
-, 22 by 5:00 PM look at Toledo,
almost down to -,
30 degrees.
So this is some seriously cold
air moving in from the Arctic
as we head towards our Friday.
The wind chill effect,
what does it even mean?
Well,
the warm air around your body
can be blown off essentially
with those winds increasing.
So that leads to more heat loss.
So not only do we have the winds,
we also have the wind chill.
Now we have to talk about the
potential for seeing some snow. Wow.
So here's what we're looking ahead towards.
This is late on Wednesday,
heading into Thursday.
Thursday, I think we begin to see
the chance of some scattered showers.
This is just going to be rain.
Then as we head towards early on
Friday morning, this is 2:00 AM,
still some rain out there.
This rain is going to
quickly transition to snow.
So I think the entire event
is a rain to snow event.
But then we've got some widespread
snow showers out there.
7:00 AM all the way through
about 3:00 o'clock and the snow.
This will continue as we head
into the day on Friday.
Remember we got snow out there.
You get the dangerous wind chills,
that's blowing snow too.
It is very possible that with those
sustained wind gusts we could actually
have Blizzard like conditions.
Again.
Another big question I'm getting
is how much snow we are three
to five days still out,
the timing and storm type,
we know we know it's going to be rain,
we know it's going to transition to snow.
As far as the amounts,
location and timing,
that is something that we're still
watching as that area of low pressure.
Begins to develop across the Rockies.
We'll have more of that in the days to
come as far as how much snow we can expect,
but I do want to give an early heads up.
As far as your holiday commute,
it's going to be dangerously cold.
We're going to have howling wind
and limited visibility because
any of that snow is going to
be blowing all over the place.
So let's just say you get stuck
on the side of the road as you're
traveling to grandma's house.
It's going to be dangerously cold outside.
You don't want to be stuck in your car.
So we're kind of advising people
even I know it's Monday.
But with the confidence in the weather
models we've had since the weekend,
it's probably a good idea not
to be traveling Friday.
And again,
we don't see those type of wind
chills around here that often.
So again,
let's just say your car does breakdown
and you're in the middle of nowhere.
That's really dangerous to be out
there by yourself when it's that cold.
So here's what we're looking
at next couple of days we watch
that system get its act together.
Everything looks alright again,
temperatures in the 40s,
but it's late on Thursday that
rain transitions snow.
We've got those snow showers.
Off and on all the way through Friday
so we could see a white Christmas.
Yeah, that.
We just need an inch of snow on the ground.
We could see a white Christmas as
we go through Saturday into Sunday.
Most of that snowfall though,
will be ending as we head into Christmas Day.
Christmas Day high of just 16 degrees.