Cincinnati, OH weather
Right now 43°, mostly clear · tonight 46°, sunny · seven days from the National Weather Service
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Right now · 43° · mostly clear · calm · 3° cooler than this time yesterday · at Cincinnati Lunken, 6:05 AM
Today, in the Weather Service’s words
Clear, with a low around 46. Northeast wind 0 to 5 mph.
Seven days
Winter in Cincinnati
Cincinnati averages 16 inches of snow a year, according to NOAA’s 1991-2020 climate normals - a occasional snow place. Snow is a few-times-a-year event. Limited equipment means modest amounts cause real disruption.
That is why local snowfall thresholds differ so much from one town to the next: a district that plans for 16 inches a year is equipped differently from one that never sees any. Here, roughly 2 inches in a single storm is where a normal school day comes under threat.
Upper air over Cincinnati
The nearest radiosonde launch is Wilmington, about 43 miles away. A weather balloon goes up twice a day and measures temperature, humidity and wind all the way through the atmosphere - which is what forecasters actually read to judge whether storms will fire, and how a surface forecast was arrived at.
Sources: National Weather Service forecast and hourly grid for Cincinnati (api.weather.gov), updated Mon, 9:33 PM UTC. Sunrise and sunset from NOAA’s solar position calculations. Snowfall normals from NOAA’s 1991-2020 US Climate Normals. County lines from the US Census Bureau.