Some locally heavy rain will be possible mainly south of I-70 tonight, the second big night of the high school football season. Temperatures will be held into the middle 60s with breezy conditions. Gusts could reach 35 miles per hour, she said.
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“Rain will work in throughout the day Friday, from the south pushing northward,” Vrydaghs said. “It should taper down Friday night with some scattered showers for the first part of Saturday until this all exits to our east.”
“Saturday, it’ll be another cool day with highs in the 60s again, and then it will start to look nicer as we head toward Labor Day,” she said.
Skies will become mostly sunny on Sunday. It will be warmer with highs in the upper 70s to near 80 degrees. Lots of sunshine is expected Monday with warm temperatures in the lower 80s.
There’s a chance for showers and storms through midday Tuesday. Highs could drop into the middle 70s.
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The remnants of Harvey should be weak compared to the havoc brought by Hurricane Ike in September 2008. Six Ohioans died as a result of a windstorm, and power outages affected 1.9 million. Counties south of Interstate 70 were hardest hit, with the worst damage around Cincinnati, Dayton and central Ohio.
“Ike wound up being more of a dry remnant of a hurricane as it moved in,” Vrydaghs said. “We actually had sunny skies that day and warm temperatures. We got into the 80s, and then we had a cold front that pushed in and that forced a lot of instability and allowed some very strong upper level winds to get forced down to the ground in this dynamic setup.”
“This time around it’s a completely different scenario,” Vrydaghs said. “We’re seeing the moisture coming in with the tropical remnants, and we’ll have rain and cool temperatures.”
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