Updated: Traffic on I-71 and state Route 30 is slow and backed up as road conditions in and around Richland County have become slippery.
It’s official: Winter-like weather is covering most of central and eastern U.S. this week as a massive arctic high pressure area has settled over the country. And here in north central Ohio, the weather is milder than, oh, say, the upper Midwest and High Plains where mornings this week were greeted with subzero temperatures.
Today, former Clear Fork resident, John Mullen, sent a note from his home in Oklahoma, along with a picture from his former home in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The photo was taken in Marquette, Michigan where official reports note that as of Wednesday morning, 36.1 inches of snow had fallen. It seems Mullen isn’t missing the Upper Penisula’s weather very much.
As for the weather further north, temperatures today were warmer in northern Alaska than they were for much of the central and northern Plains, according to National Weather Service Meteorologist Dave Hamrick.
The forecast held true for our region when it called for a slight chance of snow before 8 p.m. today because well before 6 p.m. the snow was beginning to stick. But don’t hope that it’s immediately short term. The weather service update as of 4 p.m. called for a chance of snow after 3 p.m. with a nighttime low around 21 degrees.
There may be partly sunny skies on Saturday, but Saturday night the prediction is for 50 percent chance of precipitation—oh, and on Sunday too…oh, and on Monday.
