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Sunny and dry weather continues for the first half of the week. We should see excellent evaporation and nice breezes combine the next few days to give fast drying. Temps will be normal to above normal, but cool mornings will mean heavy dew and potentially slow starts to field work. Still, its a good bet we can be in full harvest mode through Wednesday.
Thursday starts with sun, but clouds increase in the afternoon. A frontal boundary will start to sag out of the Great Lakes into the eastern corn belt later Thursday. This will bring rain and potentially a few thunderstorms to NW Ohio late Thursday night. The front continues to sag through the rest of the state overnight and Friday. Moisture is not impressive, coming in at .1″-.75″ over 75% of the state. We dry back down for Friday night and most of Saturday. The remains of hurricane Polo finally work into the region for Sunday and next Monday. Rain potential looks to be half to 2″ with coverage at 100%. The biggest totals are likely in southern Ohio, but will rely heavily on the exact track of the low, which still can have some change potential. The map below shows the combined rain potential from the remails of Polo that finishes the weekend and starts next week.
We are dry for next Tuesday and Wednesday. Clouds increase Thursday the 8th, and that’s when our next front sweeps through from West to east. Rain potential looks to be .25″-1″ on 100% coverage, but the rain is not the main story here. The upper level low supporting that front slows and stalls over the Great Lakes region for Friday the 9th and Saturday the 10th. Significantly colder air has the potential to be drawn down into Ohio, producing quite the chill. Its too early to zero in on specifics just yet, but some potential for frost exists if we continue to see this kind of cold air incursion. However, our bias right now, over a week and a half out is that the airmass and the circulation modifies substantially by the time we get there, and this cold shot does not turn out to be as impressive. But, time will tell.
