Cleveland, OH weather
Right now 54°, clear · today 66° / 50°, sunny · seven days from the National Weather Service
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Right now · 54° · clear · wind SSE 10 mph · 7° cooler than this time yesterday · at Burke Lakefront, 9:35 AM
Today, in the Weather Service’s words
Sunny, with a high near 66. Southwest wind around 6 mph.
Seven days
Winter in Cleveland
Cleveland averages 64 inches of snow a year, according to NOAA’s 1991-2020 climate normals - a heavy snow place. Serious winters and the equipment to match. It takes a genuinely big storm to close school.
That is why local snowfall thresholds differ so much from one town to the next: a district that plans for 64 inches a year is equipped differently from one that never sees any. Here, roughly 8 inches in a single storm is where a normal school day comes under threat.
Upper air over Cleveland
The nearest radiosonde launch is Pittsburgh, about 101 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 Cleveland (api.weather.gov), updated Tue, 7:46 AM 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.