4-15-19 Ohio: Warm & drier into mid-week…eyeing a stormy (strong?) end to the work-week ahead. K.

Today’s video:

Observed rainfall from this past weekend is below, a good many of us seeing 0.5-1.0″, localized higher across the eastern third of the state:

Most of us stay completely dry today through Thursday, south of the warm front and in the warm sector ahead of our next storm system approaching our area late Thursday night into Friday shown below. Right now the data supports this low pressure getting closed off and cut-off from the jet stream later Friday into our Saturday, just hanging around, which makes things tricky regarding rainfall coverage and rainfall totals. If this system can get picked back up by the jet stream quicker we can dry out faster, but as it stands right now we are lingering rainfall chances basically all of Friday into Saturday for most of us:

Total precipitation guidance is below through Easter Weekend…again, with the risks mentioned above with the low confidence on timing and rainfall coverage, we think most areas will be susceptible to 1.0″, but where storm activity can develop especially on Friday, localized higher totals will be possible up to or exceeding 2.0″:

Wind forecast over the next 4 days:

Temperature/precipitation charts over the next 10 days:

Toledo:

Columbus:

Cincinnati: