The 614cast
Monday’s tl;dr
⛅ Cold weather advisory through late Monday morning. Partly cloudy, high in the lower 20s.
Forecast highlights
🌡️ Quickly thawing out
Sunday’s high will officially go down as 18, but that was shortly after midnight. We never did better than about 11 during the afternoon. Monday will also be very cold with subzero wind chills in the morning, but we’ll get them back into the double-digits toward mid-afternoon.
The arctic cold is still obviously sitting right on top of us today, as you can see on this map of temperature anomalies — there’s a bunch of blue and purple over the eastern U.S. But as the week goes on, the pattern changes…
Here’s what that looks like for us. We go from about 20 degrees below normal today to perhaps 10 degrees above normal on Thursday!
A cold front brings a sharp drop in temperatures from Thursday to Friday, but don’t despair. Many signs point to a quick rebound with 40s possible from next weekend onward. We shall see.
🌧️ Rain later this week
That cold front on Thursday also brings rain. This far out, timing isn’t solid, but it certainly appears that the PM hours will be wet. We could see a half-inch of rain or more, not just here but across much of Ohio.
Winds also pick up on Thursday ahead of that cold front. I’m already expecting we’ll get gusts around 30 mph.
📊 Monday’s almanac
Normal low/high: 28 / 42
Record low/high: -4 (1958) / 64 (1971)
Sunrise/set: 7:46 a.m. / 5:07 p.m.
☃️ Let it snow
Columbus has officially gotten 11.9” of snow so far this season; we are off to a pretty strong start for the snow-lovers out there.
Here’s how it compares to the past ten years, through December 14:
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2024: 0.7”
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2023: 0.1”
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2022: 0.3”
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2021: 1.1”
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2020: 2.7”
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2019: 2.8”
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2018: 2.5”
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2017: 3.2”
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2016: 4.8”
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2015: Trace
It’s also the fifth-snowiest season through December 14. Here are the other years and how their seasonal snowfall ended:
The top three were all pretty snowy overall, with fourth place coming in reasonably close to average.
🌭 For the weather weenies
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Rescue crews in Washington working in catastrophic floods (The Weather Channel)
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Can you drive west to lengthen the sunset? (xkcd/YouTube)