And here at home, we're currenty
under an air quality alert as w.
And This is why across the Midwt
we're seeing smoke pouring in
from those Canadian wildfires.
This is a before and after picture taken by
the National Weather Service in Illinois.
On your left is a picture from Saturday
and on your right is that same spot today.
Thankfully, right now we aren't
seeing conditions this bad.
Here in Columbus, but let's brin
dollar time Meteorologist Ross .
So I, Ross, I know you're tracking the smoke.
Can we be seeing this coming into this week?
I know that air quality alert is for Monday.
Is that going to continue the
rest of the week?
It
looks like winds will be favorae
once we see this change in our
pattern come through the next ce
days to where it won't be as ba,
where we probably won't have an
air quality alert after tomorro.
But still the next 24 hours or
so we are going to be looking at
poor levels and that's going toe
mainly for those sensitive grou.
Again, this isn't,
you know, across the board,
but everyone should ultimately,
you know, practice, you know, s.
And just limit your time outsid,
especially when it comes to, you know,
strenuous activity in the aftern
hours where it's been pretty ho.
So definitely do that into the morning
or later into the evening hours.
And we're seeing that smoke
still visible here overlooking
our beautiful downtown Columbus,
but can't really see much more than that.
Yes, there are a few clouds out there,
but for the most part,
just looking at a very hazy
end to the weekend for us,
looking out from Scioto Audubon Metro Park,
temperature wise, not too bad.
Most of the time we've been speg
into the low to mid 80s for us.
We're now at 83 degrees.
We have a few spots on the map,
even into the 70s up towards Mount Vernon,
79 on 71 towards Mansfield,
currently sitting at 7880 degrees in Athens,
84 MacArthur,
83 in Chillicothe in Ross County
and 82 over in Marysville.
So temperature wise.
Actually,
not too bad.
Usually this time of the year is when
things really start to be the best or
the highest statistic to see hotter weather.
But so far it hasn't been
too bad for us this July,
just as far as the heat alone.
But we have the air quality.
We also have showers and storms.
They're starting to make their way into Ohio.
Again, just a small spotty
shower chance for us today.
We are going to be seeing these
stronger storms that are moving through.
Indianapolis gradually pushed
southwest towards Cincinnati and
Dayton area over the next few h,
but I am expecting a lot
of these storms to weaken.
We're not.
Under a severe weather threat fr
tonight nor are we tomorrow but
I wouldn't be surprised we were
to see a few downpours make ther
way as they continue to weaken
pushing closer into central Ohi.
But again a lot of this looking
like it could run out of steam e
by the time it reaches central
Ohio later tonight.
And again looking at your air
quality alert for your Monday,
this is going to be mainly unhey
for some so people with heart
lung disease elderly and childrn
essentially just want to limit r
time outdoors that's going to be for Monday.
So this smoke highlighting somef
the more dense areas there in te
orange and Reds once we start t.
To see some winds shift for us
as this front moves through,
that's going to help to clean up the air.
As we head into Monday night,
you can start to see some of the
darker colors, Blues that's shog
little to no pollutants into the air.
So as we head into Tuesday,
it looks like we will see
a lot of improvement.
And again, these fires are goino
continue to burn up and towards Canada.
It's just the winds have been
favorable to usher and mix it io
our part of the atmosphere where
again it could lower the air quality.
Now on top of the fact that we e
been dealing with the air quali,
we'll save those showers and
storms as I mentioned.
Not expecting a whole lot for
us for the next few hours.
Again a few isolated showers mae
lingering as we approach midnigt
and then looking like through te
overnight we'll see some clouds
pass through a couple isolated
downpours going into your Monday
morning looking mainly dry to st
the morning hours for us though
temperature wise will be climbin
the low to mid 80s so pretty sir
to what we've been at this week.
Mixed sun and clouds through the
afternoon showers and storms wil
start to develop as we head inte
late afternoon into the evening.
Around 6:00 o'clock,
this is where things are probaby
going to be the most active
for us across central Ohio.
So if your evening commute,
definitely plan for a slower dr.
We're not under a severe
weather threat for your Monday,
but still some heavy rain will
be possible that will continue o
move east as we approach eight,
9:00, o'clock.
And then by sunset things should
be weakening and improving for
us as we head into Tuesday,
which looks like temperature wise again,
we're going to be either side o5
degrees throughout the course of the week.
Not too bad.
And it looks like things will be
pretty clear for us on Tuesday as well.
Seeing more blue skies and thenf
course looking like we'll see me
unsettled weather chance for shs
and storms Wednesday into Thurs.