Mild, brighter, drier weekend ahead for Columbus area

QUICK WEATHER FORECAST:

• Tonight: Showers early, clearing late, low 67
• Saturday: Partly cloudy early, mixed clouds later, high 85
• Sunday: Mostly sunny, high 88
• Monday: Mostly sunny, high 92
• Tuesday: Partly cloudy, scattered t-storms later, high 87

FORECAST DISCUSSION:

Good Friday Evening,

After a muggy, but cooler than normal day today with clouds and scattered showers, a cold front will push through this evening. This will keep rain chances around mainly before midnight tonight, with some clearing later, and lows in the mid to upper 60s.

Saturday will start off with partly cloudy skies and a few more clouds starting to move in by midday, temps will remain near normal in the middle 80s. Saturday night will be mostly clear, with lows dropping to the middle 60s. Expect mostly sunny skies on Sunday with highs up into the upper 80s.

Sunshine will still be the rule on a hotter day on Monday with mostly sunny skies and highs in the lower 90s. Clouds will return late on Monday, and will increase humidity heading into Tuesday with lows in the lower 70s. Expect showers and storms to build from our west with highs in the upper 80s on Tuesday.

The bulk of this activity will occur during the afternoon to evening hours on Tuesday. Wednesday a system will be to our south, giving our southern counties a chance of rain on Wednesday, otherwise highs will be in the mid to upper 80s. What happens with the moisture associated with Beryl, may impact our southern counties by the 2nd half of next work week.

Temps will remain in the upper 80s on Thursday, and still in the upper 80s with some isolated late storms on Friday.

-Dave