This is the inaugural entry for “Buckeye Weather Buzz,” a weekday newsletter devoted to the weather happenings in the Columbus, Ohio and sharing other weather-y tidbits of interest. Each newsletter will begin with a very brief summary of the next day’s weather forecast, followed by detail of two or three of the main upcoming weather […]
With highs in the 80s later this week, snow is probably the furthest thing from your mind. Actually, it probably wasn’t on your mind much at all over the past few months. ❄️ Columbus had no measurable snow during climatological spring (March to May) — only the fifth time that’s happened since 1885. 📅 The
April 15 marks the halfway point of climatological spring, which began on March 1. This spring’s snowfall so far has been… *checks notes* … too little to even measure. That’s right. Officially, Columbus has had only a trace of snow over the past six weeks, which is very rare. This has happened only six other
On March 19, I posted a little story summarizing the March wind situation in Columbus. Through that day, it seemed like it’d been unusually windy, but that wasn’t really the case. Now that March is done, I felt I should see if that theme remained true. Technically, it did not. That said, wind is one
It sure seems like we’ve had our share of blustery breezes so far this March. But has this month actually been unusually windy? Turns out, the answer is a big ol’ “nope.” Through March 19, Columbus has had seven days with a top wind gust of at least 30 mph. While that’s a few more
For the first time since November 6, Columbus crossed the 70-degree mark on Tuesday. It turns out that it’s right on schedule, too — the average of the first 70 is March 9, using the 1991–2020 climate period. I should mention that the average first date 100 years ago in 1925 was March 22. This
Writing simple code, for those of us who know nothing of actually writing code from scratch, is now a much more doable task thanks to generative AI. Instead of clawing my way through Reddit and Stack Overflow and hoping I can cobble something together, I can just ask ChatGPT for assistance. And that’s what I
Climatological summer runs from June 1 to August 31, and we just passed the midway mark of the season. So, through July 15, how has this summer been in Columbus and central Ohio? Temperatures Overall, this has been a warm summer in Columbus. June featured a seven-day streak with highs of at least 90° from
