5-1-19 Ohio: Very warm, drier today today…discussing the risks for precipitation late week into early weekend. K.

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Today for most of us will be another completely dry, warm day with many of us getting into the upper 70s to lower 80s especially further south and east. Our precipitation chances look to start increasing across the western half of the state late tonight, a few of these could be on the heavier side. As we go into our Friday it’s looking like another drier throughout most of the day, targeting another round of showers/storms late Friday into into Saturday morning. Here’s a look at rainfall guidance over the next 2 days below, favoring areas from Cincy to west of Columbus and points northwest for ~0.5-1.5″…points to the east we feel will have a difficult time getting much precipitation underneath the influence of higher pressure:

Here’s the latest European guidance from Friday afternoon through Sunday regarding precipitation…we feel like locations along and south of I-70 pose a better risk for our chance of seeing 0.5-1.5″:

Wind forecast over the next 4 days:

Temperature/precipitation charts over the next 10 days:

Cincinnati:

Columbus:

Toledo: