The 614cast
Today’s tl;dr
🌧️ Rain, becoming more scattered in the afternoon. High in the middle to upper 50s.
Forecast highlights
☂️ Wet today
A soggy morning will turn less soggy this afternoon as the batch of rain becomes more scattered in nature.
There’ll still be spotty showers right into the evening, but there’ll also be breaks. Total rainfall still looks to be near or over a half-inch as of this writing.
Rain chances taper off after this evening, but a final hurrah is possible early tomorrow with a quick-moving band of showers. That’ll be associated with the cold front that sends temperatures down.
🌬️ Stiff winds bring sharply colder temperatures
Tomorrow and Thursday will not be the nicest days we’ve ever had.
Winds will be sustained from the west at 10–20 mph with gusts exceeding 30 mph, especially tomorrow.
If you’re going to be traveling on north-south roads, be ready for crosswinds. Leave extra space between you and other vehicles, especially tall ones like semis. They’re going to get shoved around a bit by the wind.
Tomorrow’s high will be near 50, but it’ll happen in the morning. Temperatures fall a good share of the day. Wind chills drop into the upper 20s in the evening.
Unfortunately, wind chills won’t even make it out of the 20s on Thanksgiving. Mid-20s will be about all we can muster up for the feels-like temperature, with actual readings only making the mid-30s. That’s a little more than 10 degrees below normal.
Free outdoor refrigeration, I guess?
Highs stay in the 30s Friday and Saturday, although the wind will gradually diminish going into the weekend.
📊 Today’s almanac
Normal low/high: 32 / 48
Record low/high: 5 (1950) / 68 (1908)
Sunrise/set: 7:28 a.m. / 5:09 p.m.
🏈 The ‘Snow Bowl’
Today marks 75 years since a snowy, bitterly cold football game between the Buckeyes and Wolverines that neither team’s coach wanted to play.
The low that day was 5, the high was 20, and the snowfall was 7.5” — all records for November 25 that stand to this day. Strong winds dropped visibility to a quarter-mile at times. Yet thousands of fans turned out for the game.
Suffice it to say, there wasn’t much offense. Michigan had no first downs nor a completed pass and punted 24 times. Total offense: 27 yards. But Ohio State didn’t do much better, gaining just 41 yards of offense and punting 21 times.
Ohio State’s only score was a 27-yard field goal, while Michigan’s two scores — a safety and a touchdown — both came from blocked punts.
Michigan’s 9-3 win gave them the conference title and a trip to the Rose Bowl.
The Toledo Blade has a great write-up about the Snow Bowl from its 50-year anniversary, while the National Weather Service dives into the meteorology from that day.
🌭 For the weather weenies
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NOAA, NASA: 2025 ozone hole is 5th smallest since 1992 (NOAA)
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The wild weather of ‘Wicked: For Good’ explained (The Weather Channel) [⚠️Article contains spoilers]
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U.S. dams, levees, stormwater, and wastewater systems get D to D+ grades, need almost $1 trillion in upgrades (Yale Climate Connection)