Looking and feeling like October

The 614cast

Today’s tl;dr

☀️ Sunny, high in the mid-60s.

Forecast highlights

🍂 Seasonably cool, then seasonably mild

Isn’t it nice to have the kind of weather where it’s so nice to pull up another blanket and be all cozy? (… And then endure accepting that you have to get out of bed, which is a exceptionally difficult thing to do given the comfy circumstances you’re in.)

Anywho, we have that kind of weather right now. And this afternoon’s sunshine and 60s will be quintessential fall weather.

Tonight will be another chilly one… probably a touch cooler than this morning. Here’s the National Blend of Models’ probability of dropping below 36 tonight. That’s the rough threshold for seeing at least patchy frost.

The urban heat island of Columbus will keep the city itself from getting that cold, but outlying areas have high odds of making it that low. You can see northwest of Columbus is definitely favored.

That’ll be the coolest morning for a while as the Canadian airmass moderates. We’ll have mornings in the 40s and afternoons near 70 through the start of next week. Those highs are slightly mild for this time of year, but hardly unusual and still quite pleasant.

❌ Another (likely) dry streak

Another disturbance out of Canada looks to pinwheel its way through the region this weekend. Unlike this last one, though, there’s not really a notable “real” weather system with it and it’s moisture-starved, anyway.

While there’s an off-chance of a sprinkle or light shower this weekend — perhaps Saturday evening into early Sunday — the odds are barely mentionable. The current National Weather Service forecast peaks at about a 10% chance, which I fully agree with.

After that, I don’t really see any other opportunities for rain for a while.

📊 Today’s almanac

Normal low/high: 47 / 69
Record low/high: 29 (1989) / 88 (1939)
Sunrise/set: 7:36 a.m. / 7:01 p.m.

🌇 Tonight’s the last 7 p.m. sunset of the year

I feel like we just had the last 8 p.m. sunset of the year (it was on September 2), and here we are with the last 7 p.m. sunset of the year.

If you’re out much during the evening, you’ve certainly noticed just how fast we’ve been losing light over the past month. Of course, we’ll keep losing ground for the next couple of months; our earliest sunset is 5:06 p.m. from December 3–11.

Wondering when we get back to a sunset after 7? It’ll be on March 8, 2026, and we actually get a big jump ahead thanks to Daylight Saving Time starting. Sunset that day will be 7:31 p.m., compared to 6:30 p.m. the day before.

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