The 614cast
Today’s tl;dr
☀️ Sunny, high in the middle 80s.
🏈 OSU vs. Ohio tl;dr
3 p.m. Partly sunny, 83
7 p.m. Kickoff Partly sunny, 81
10 p.m. Partly cloudy, 72
Forecast highlights
❄️ Humming A/Cs
Coolish weather… it was nice while it lasted. Our A/C is running as I write this on Thursday afternoon, something it’s done very little of over the past couple of weeks.
Alas, it’ll continue for… uh, a while.
The seasonably large range between the morning low and afternoon high we’ve had lately continues into next week. Early morning or evening walks will still be comfortable, but you’ll feel the warmth if you’re out from late morning through mid-afternoon.
I think it’s going to be hard to cross the 90-degree threshold… we had enough trouble doing so during the depths of summer, and we’ve lost a bunch of daylight and high sun angle since then. If we do push past that mark, it’ll be mostly thanks to the dry conditions.
🦗 Crunchy grass
Here’s a graph of rain chances through the middle of next week.
Pretty pathetic, right? That little blip late Saturday evening into early Sunday is for a weak disturbance shuttling through the region. It just doesn’t have much of anything going in its favor, so if it produces anything, it’d be little more than sprinkles.
Rain is going to be awfully hard to come by for a long while.
📊 Today’s almanac
Normal low/high: 58 / 79
Record low/high: 44 (1985) / 96 (1897)
Sunrise/set: 7:10 a.m. / 7:45 p.m.
💧 Drought update
Drought conditions expanded since last week, and much of our local area is now in moderate drought.
Last week, 29% of Ohio was in moderate drought. This week, it’s jumped to 48% — including 2% in severe drought.
The weekly update has this to say:
Impacts in Ohio include rapid crop dry down, water hauling, low farm ponds, and poor pasture conditions.
Rainfall has obviously been lacking over the past month. Areas in red have had less than half of the normal amount.
At this time a year ago, 78% of the state was in at least moderate drought. More than 8% was in exceptional drought, the highest category.
🌭 For the weather weenies
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Peak fall color prediction for Ohio (Ohio Department of Natural Resources)
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SST Committee passes Weather Act Reauthorization, strengthening U.S. Weather Enterprise (House Science, Space, and Technology Committee)