An Icy Mess

EVEN TALK ABOUT THAT SECOND PART . KEVIN TALKING ABOUT THIS WEEKEND WEATHER, COMING IN RAIN, TRANSITIONING INTO ICE AND EVENTUALLY SNOW. KEVIN: WE GOT SOME INTERESTING WEATHER. IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW THINGS PLAY OUT BECAUSE THERE’S SO MANY LITTLE NUANCES. FOR EXAMPLE, JUST THE SLIGHTEST SHIFT IN 50 TO 75 MILES COULD CHANGE THE FORECAST A DEGREE HERE, A DEGREE THERE, BUT CHECK THIS IMAGE OUT -- THIS IS DOWNTOWN CINCINNATI. I KNOW YOU CANNOT SEE BECAUSE IT IS OBSCURED BY CLOUDS, BUT WHY IS IT LOOKING LIKE THAT? WE’VE GOT THAT ARCTIC FRONT RIGHT ON TOP OF US AS WE SPEAK, DAN YOU CAN SEE IT REFLECTED IN THE TEMPERATURES. MASON HAS BEEN STEADILY DROPPING, SO THE FRONT BASICLYAL BISECTS HAMILTON COUNTY RIGHT NOW, AND AS SOON AS IT CROSSES, TEMPERATURES DROP ABOUT 10 DEGRSEE JT USLIKE THAT. YOU ARE AHEAD OF THE FRONT TO THE EAST. LOOK AT BATAAVI AT 46. HAMILTON, HARRISON, YOU ARE CLEARLY BEHIND THE FRONT, AND IT DROPS BELOW FREEZING UP TOWARDS OXFORD, BROOKVILLE, AND OUT TOWARDS BASSFORD, SO THE COLDER AIR IS ON THE MOVE. THOSE CLOUDS WILL BE GONE IN THE NEXT HALF AN HOUR AS THE FRONT CLEARS AND THAT COLDER AIR MOVES IN. WE HAVE HAD RAIN ALL EVENING ACROSS THE AREA. THAT WILL CONTINUE. ALTHOUGH THE TRANSITION IS TAKING PLACE AS TEMPERATURES ARE DROPPING BELOW FREEZING, BUT BEFOREOU YET G OVERLY CONCERNED, THERE’S GOING TO BE A LET IN THE STEADY RAIN OVERNIGHT TONIGHT, SO THAT’S ANOTHER REASON WHY I THINK THERE WILL BE A LITTLE BIT AOF LOW -- A LITTLE BIT OF A LLLU IN THE DETERIORATION OF ROADS. I ALWSAYAY S WATCH YOUR BRIDGES, THOUGH. THEY ALWAYS ICE UP FIRST, BUT I THINK THE MNAI ROADS ARE OK FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE NIGHT. THE REST OF THE RADAR SHOWS RAIN ACROSS KENCKTUY. RAIN THROUGH OUR EASTERN COMMUNITSIE FROM WEST UNION UP TOWARD WILMINGTON. WE WILL COINNTUE TO WATCH THE TRANSITION FROM RAIN OVER TO FREEZING RAIN AS WE GO THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT TONIGHT. AS THOSE TEMPERATURES FALL, AGAIN, IT LOOKS LIKE FREEZING RAIN AND HEAVY SLEET TORROWOM IN AND AROUND THE METRO ABOUT A QUARTER OF AN INCH OF ICE. THAT IS ENOUGH TO CREA ATE FEW SPOTTY POWER OUTAGES, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU FACTOR IN THE WIND, BUT I THINK THE MORE DAMINAGG ICE IS JUST TO THE SOUTHND A EAST OF US HERE IN CINCINNATI, SO WE ARE DODGING A LITTLE BIT OF A BULLET WITH THA T.SLEET TO HAVE THE GREATEST PAIMCT AROUND HERE. THE 275 LOOP, THE I-75 CORRIDOR. IN FACT, I THINK IT REALLY CUTS INTO YOUR SNOWFALLOTAL TS. AGAIN, THE WIND WILL BE AN ISSUE WITH ANY ICEN O TREES, AND THAT COULD, OF COURSE, MAKE THE SITUATION WITH POWER A LITTLE MORE CRITICAL OUT THERE, ESPECIALLY AS YOU GET INTO THIS EAAR IN PINK. THIS IS WHERE YOU WILL HAVE DAMAGING ICE, I THINK, FROM PASRT OF ROWAN COUNTY, MAYBE INTO THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF HIGHLAND COUNTY. PEOPLES, GEORGETOWN, MAYSVILLE, BE ON THE LOOKOUT. THE GREATER PART OF THE TRI-STATE,HE T HEART OF THE TRI-STATE, ONE TO THREE INCHES OF SNOW, A QUARTER INCH OF ICE, AND A LOT OF SLEET. THAT’S WHY I TNKHI WE HAVE CUT DOWN ON THESE SNOWFALL TOTALS FOR THE METRO. FARTHER NORTH AND WEST, BROOKVILLE, OXFORD, PARTS OF FRANKLIN, BUTLER COUNTY, COULD SEE HALF A FOOT OF SNOW IN THOSE AREAS. WATCH HOW THE TRANSITION PLAYS OUT. YOU SEE THE BREAK THERE. TOWARDS MORNING, THE FREEZING RAIN BECOMES MORE STEADY AGAIN. AT THIS POINT, TEMPERATURES ARE IN THE UPPER 20’S. I KEEP SAYING I REALLY THINK IT IS MIDMORNING BEFORE CONDITIONS REALLY GO DOWNHILL, BUT WATCH THE BRIDGES FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. BUT THEN IT LOOKS LIKE HEAVY FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET FOR THE BETTER PTAR OF THE AFTERNOON, SOME SNOW IN OUR FAR NORTHWEST, AND THIS AREA IN BLUE WHICH APPEARS TO BE SNOW I STILL THINK WILLE B SLEET. THAT’S THE REASON WHY WE KEEP THOSE SNOWFALL TOTALS DOWN, AND I THINK THE MOST IMPACTFUL SNOWS MAY NOT GET HERE UNTIL LATE TOMORROW AND THEN THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING WITH SOME FAT, FLUFFY FLAKES TTHA COULD PILE UP A QUICK ONE TO THREE INCHES OF SNOW FOR US ON FRIYDA MORNING, LATE THURSDAY NIGHT/FRIDAY MORNING BEFOREE W BEGIN TCLO EAR OUT AND IT TURNS VERY COLD BEHIND THIS STORM. WE ARE DOWN TO 29 BY MORNING WITH RAIN TO FREEZING RAIN. TOMORROW, OBVIOUSLY A WEATHER ALERT DAY. AN ICY MIX OF FREEZING RAINND HEAVY SLEET GOING OVER TO SNOW BY EVENING. AGAIN, PICK ANY PART OF THE DAY, THE WEATHER IS GOING TO BE PRETTY IMPACTFUL TOMORROW, BUT TOMOOWRR NIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING, JUST A MESS ON THE ROADS. SEVEN-DAY FORECAST, DOWN TO 18 TOMORROW NIGHT, THEN DOWN TO ONE,