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Issued by NWS Wilmington, OH
Issued by NWS Wilmington, OH
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633 FXUS61 KILN 071934 AFDILN Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Wilmington OH 334 PM EDT Mon Apr 7 2025 .SYNOPSIS... A cold front this evening will provide much colder temperatures tonight into Tuesday as high pressure builds in behind it. The high will move east Tuesday night. The next weather system will affect the area by mid week, bringing an increasing chance for precipitation. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM TUESDAY MORNING/... Digging trough moving through the Great Lakes will bring a fast- moving cold front through the region with colder temperatures arriving behind it overnight. While northwest winds will stay up through the night, cold air advection will allow lows to reach down into the lower to middle 20s. && .SHORT TERM /6 AM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT/... High pressure will build into the middle Ohio Valley on Tuesday, then move off to the east Tuesday night. Mostly clear skies will be offset by a cold airmass on Tuesday, so highs will only reach into the 40s. Radiational cooling will bring another night to near or below freezing temperatures Tuesday night. There could be some increase in high clouds late ahead of the next shortwave. && .LONG TERM /WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY/... High pressure over eastern Ohio will drift eastward during the day as a low pressure system approaches from Missouri. A warm front will develop over northern OH/IN, with rain overspreading the northern half of the CWA Wed afternoon/evening as the low moves towards the IL/IN border. Overnight, showers will continue in the north and overspread the south with the low situated between Muncie and Ft. Wayne at daybreak. Showers and thunderstorms from this system will end from west-east later overnight or early Thursday morning. This low will pass through northwest Ohio, and a trailing cold front will cross the CWA sometime in the afternoon. Some cold pool showers will be possible behind the front as a digging upper trough introduces a broad source of lift to a reasonably saturated lower atmosphere. From Thursday night through Friday, some shower chances need to remain in the forecast, with a higher possibility located in southern/eastern CWA. This is due to the axis of the upper trough remaining over the region through Friday. In the wake of the low, high pressure will build over the Midwest Friday night, working into the Ohio a bit later on Saturday night. Along and behind the surface high is upper level ridging that will keep dry air over the Ohio Valley through Sunday night. On Monday, the ridge moves east/breaks down as a strong stacked low pressure system over western Lake Superior could bring warm sector showers ahead of a pressure trough. Temperatures 45-55 on Wed will warm to 55-65 Thurs. Thurs temps could be a bit warmer given the possibility of an earlier frontal passage and/or cooling effects from shower activity that is possible through the day. North flow on Friday with continued cloud cover will see temperatures only reach the mid 50s, warm to the upper 50s on Saturday with the building surface high and some breaks in the cloud cover. Building high pressure through a deep layer on Sunday will make it the warmest of the period with readings in the mid 60s under dry and generally cloud-free conditions. Overnight lows will drop from the low-mid 40s Wed night, upper 30s to near 40 Thurs night, and mid 30s Fri/Sat nights. Sun night will be warmer and in the upper 40s as flow turns southerly. && .AVIATION /19Z MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY/... Cold front will quickly shift southeast through the terminals late this afternoon into the evening. Winds will be northwesterly to northerly behind the front and become gusty into the overnight hours. There is a signal in the guidance for a narrow band of MVFR ceilings behind the front. Have included this in the TAFs for planning purposes, though it is possible that the lower ceilings end up patchy. Skies will clear and winds decrease a bit for Tuesday as high pressure builds into the region. OUTLOOK...MVFR/IFR conditions possible Wednesday into Thursday. MVFR ceilings possible Friday. && .ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...Freeze Warning from 1 AM to 11 AM EDT Tuesday for OHZ026-034-035- 042>046-051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088. KY...Freeze Warning from 1 AM to 11 AM EDT Tuesday for KYZ089>100. IN...Freeze Warning from 1 AM to 11 AM EDT Tuesday for INZ050-058-059- 066-073>075-080. && $$ SYNOPSIS... NEAR TERM... SHORT TERM... LONG TERM...Franks AVIATION...