{"id":788,"date":"2013-02-18T21:31:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T21:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/?p=788"},"modified":"2013-02-18T21:31:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T21:31:32","slug":"rain-tonight-active-and-colder-pattern-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"Rain Tonight, Active And Colder Pattern Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A strong cold front will sweep through the Tri-State early tomorrow morning, bringing rain this evening, a rain\/snow mix overnight, and flurries tomorrow afternoon. Mid-week will be quiet, but another system coming later this week looks to bring the Ohio Valley a mess of rain, snow, sleet, and freezing rain.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone will see light rain tonight; some may see brief moderate to heavy rain. By the time this system pushes east tomorrow night, Precisioncast gives us roughly 1\/2&#8243; of precipitation (nearly all of this will be rain):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/feb17-adonisrain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-789\" alt=\"feb17-adonisrain\" src=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/feb17-adonisrain.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The higher-resolution Microcast run from this morning gives us about a 1\/2&#8243; of precipitation through tomorrow night as well:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/feb17-mcrain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-790\" alt=\"feb17-mcrain\" src=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/feb17-mcrain.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Besides Microcast and Precisioncast, the three major forecast models we use in the weather center give us anywhere between 0.19&#8243; and almost 0.6&#8243; of precipitation (mostly rain) through tomorrow night:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/feb17-modelsrain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-791\" alt=\"feb17-modelsrain\" src=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/feb17-modelsrain.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By tomorrow afternoon, we should only have flurries in the area with temperatures nearly steady in the low to mid 30s.<\/p>\n<p>The weather system that is coming later this week looks more interesting and has my attention. A mix of rain, snow, sleet, and freezing rain is likely coming late Thursday and early Friday. The NAM model&#8217;s simulated radar product from this morning suggests we&#8217;ll see rain over ice by 7pm Thursday night, but I&#8217;m skeptical:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/feb18-namradar00zfri1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-793\" alt=\"feb18-namradar00zfri\" src=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/feb18-namradar00zfri1.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest run of the GFS model gives Cincinnati about 0.2&#8243; of ice Thursday night and early Friday. Here&#8217;s a map of forecast ice accumulation this morning&#8217;s GFS model (through 7pm Friday):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/feb18-gfsice00zsat.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-794\" alt=\"feb18-gfsice00zsat\" src=\"http:\/\/scottdimmich.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/feb18-gfsice00zsat.gif\" width=\"595\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recent runs of the GFS model have given Cincinnati about 0.1 to 0.2&#8243; of ice accumulation. This is not enough ice to bring down power lines, but it&#8217;s enough to make the roads slick. A difference of 2\u00b0 in the temperature near or above the ground will make a big difference on how much rain, snow, ice, or sleet we get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strong cold front will sweep through the Tri-State early tomorrow morning, bringing rain this evening, a rain\/snow mix overnight, and flurries tomorrow afternoon. Mid-week will be quiet, but another system coming later this week looks to bring the Ohio Valley a mess of rain, snow, sleet, and freezing rain. Everyone will see light rain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottdimmich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}