Snow Starting 5 AM | Ohio Weather 6 AM

Good morning! I'm Aaron Jolly. And welcome to the Ohio Weather Podcast. It's Thursday, February 26th. Grab that coffee and listen up, folks. If you're anywhere near Cincinnati or Dayton right now.. Freezing rain and sleet are sliding through between 5 and 9 A.M. The worst of it hits around 7 A.M. Bridges will be skating rinks. Give yourself extra time and keep those hands loose on the wheel. The rest of the state? Different vibe entirely. Northeast Ohio is waking up at 22 degrees under a thick gray blanket. That chill bites through your coat before you even reach the car. But sunshine punches through later this morning. Cleveland tops out at a modest 34 degrees. Columbus splits the difference nicely. A slight chance of early flurries, then highs climb to 45 degrees. Almost pleasant by February standards. Tonight, skies clear from west to east. Lows settle into the upper 20s statewide. Now here's where it gets interesting. Friday is the kind of day that tricks you into thinking spring arrived early. Full sunshine everywhere. Southwest Ohio surges to 60 degrees. Columbus hits 57. Even Cleveland reaches 52. We're gaining over two minutes of daylight now. And the spring equinox is just three weeks out. Don't put the snow shovel away yet, though. Saturday starts mild, upper 50s to near 60. Then a cold front barrels through Saturday night with light snow. Maybe an inch. Sunday night into Monday is the one I'm watching closely. A more significant storm could drop accumulating snow, especially across central and southern Ohio. The track is still wobbly, so early week travel plans deserve a Plan B. I'll have the latest on that Monday storm tomorrow morning. Keep those windshield wipers up tonight. That's your forecast — we'll be back tomorrow.