While I mentioned that I respect my kids privacy yesterday, they were on TV, so that seems... hypocritical. HAHA! They have come in and joined me for the Take Your Kids To Work Day a couple times now and they love hanging out with dad. I think they love when I take them to the breakroom marketplace and let them pick out a snack while they are visiting me. They picked out M&M cookies yesterday and breath mints. They each came on and helped out with a couple of forecasts in front of the green screen too. So since they were on TV I figured sharing a quick photo on here would be fine. My wife came to pick them up and take them back home to catch the bus for school. When I got home I had a lot of work to do...
I mentioned yesterday that I am on the HOA board and the 3 of us are trying to do a little more for the community. We were able to get a deal on bulk mulch for anyone that was interested. I normally mulch every-other year and I was going to need it this year anyway. So I spent the afternoon spreading the mulch and helping a few of the neighbors load up their mulch, from my driveway, that they ordered. Thankfully that is all done and we had some light rain overnight to help settle it all down.
A lot of Central Ohio will have damp roads this morning from some light rain showers that have passed through overnight. We will remain mostly cloudy today with a few scattered showers during the first half of the day with morning temps in the lower 60s.
We warm to a high around 75 today with scattered thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening, but severe storms are not likely. Light breeze out of the southwest today. The rain leaves overnight and temps dip into the lower 50s.
Saturday has a slight chance of rain very early, mainly before daybreak, then mostly cloudy with more sun late in the day. We warm to a high around 61 on Saturday with a brisk breeze out of the northwest. Sunday will start with temps around 40 in Columbus, but outlying areas may dip cooler for some light frost. Mostly sunny on Sunday and warming to a high around 68.
We heat up next week with rain returning by midweek. Monday will be partly cloudy with a high around 80. Tuesday will bring more clouds through the day and we heat up to a high around 83. Strong storms are possible Tuesday evening into early Wednesday. High around 72 on Wednesday with early rain then decreasing clouds in the afternoon. However, Thursday will have more clouds returning along with more rain returning later in the day. High around 74 on Thursday. Have a good one!
I miss keeping track of my daily happenings with my blog. I used to record it for multiple reasons. One big reason was because my grandma Judy would always read these and said she loved keeping up with what was going on in my life. She had more than 20 grandkids and I imagine it would be fun following along. That really touched me and I kept doing it on a daily basis until around the time she passed away. Life got busy with two kids. Work got busy with extra responsibilities. Then I also took on other rolls like being on the Board of Governors for the Ohio State Atmospheric Sciences Alumni Society. I picked up running as a hobby initially to lose weight, but now it is my time to disconnect and get some time to clear my mind. I am also now a trustee for our HOA and took on the roll of vice president. So yea... I feel like I have very little free time. But I want to get back in the habit of keeping track of my own life along with a record to look back on. Maybe I should do this more privately and keep a journal. But instead maybe sharing it publicly will allow for others to chime-in and relate.
So another question is pondering of what I want to write about? My kids did not choose my career, so I really do not post about them often. Their privacy is something I respect and it is not my life that they are living. So I want to respect that. I used to post daily forecasts on here, but I post those now on my Facebook page. I am not sure if posting the write-ups here would be beneficial or not. I also wonder how much people are interested in my daily runs, or running journey. The photo above is from my 13 mile run at Prairie Oaks Metro Park yesterday. It has been a while since I did a 13 mile run and I initially signed up for the Cap City Half Marathon on Saturday. However, I am also coaching Evan's soccer team. The timing of his game doesn't allow me to run the half marathon, so I switched to the quarter marathon so that way I can be part of the race, finish earlier, then quickly get to the soccer fields to coach his team. Anyway, that is why I wanted to run the 13 miles yesterday as a FOMO run since I will not be running the 13 miles on Saturday. It was a beautiful sunny day, but it did get warm, since we ended up hitting 81 for the high.
So what would be best to post here daily? Feel free to comment and let me know. Considering I have not updated this blog in a while, I am not sure how many comments I will get, but I will read through them all and look forward to hearing.
Well... for old-time's sake, here is the forecast write-up I did today:
Good Thursday morning! Another very warm day today with high temps back in the 80s. Yesterday we hit 81 and today we are going to go with 84 for the high. This morning we are starting off with temps in the 50s and some high thin clouds. We will have a mix of sun & clouds today as we warm up quickly and some isolated pop-up showers and storms possible this afternoon and evening. It is about a 30% chance of rain for Central Ohio today. Once the sun sets tonight the rain will dissipate some for a mostly cloudy and mild night, with low temps around 60. Friday will be warm and humid with more scattered showers and storms. As we warm to a high around 78 in the afternoon we will get a few more storms. 70% chance of rain for Friday, so not widespread for everyone. We will get another wave of scattered rain late Friday with a cold front sweeping across the state and clearing the rain out of here by daybreak on Saturday. We may get some gusty winds or small hail, but severe storms are not looking likely for the next couple of days. Light winds out of the south for today and tomorrow. Rainfall totals will generally be around half of an inch or less, but rainfall totals will vary because the rain will be scattered and not widespread.
Saturday may start out with a few isolated showers still racing out of Ohio, but the chance of rain will be dropping quickly as we go through the early morning hours of Saturday. Saturday will start with temps in the lower 50s and we only warm to around 63 in the afternoon. Mostly cloudy morning then clearing skies in the afternoon and evening. Chilly Sunday morning with clear skies and temps around 40 in Columbus and outlying areas dipping into the 30s for some light frost potentially. Mostly sunny Sunday and a high around 70.
We warm up more next week with rain returning midweek. Partly cloudy on Monday with a high around 80. Partly cloudy on Tuesday with rain returning later in the day and some heavy pockets of rain possible Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. We warm to a high around 83 on Tuesday then 74 for the high on Wednesday. Have a good one!
This one was a grind... But I finished! I ran the 2024 No Business 100 endurance run a couple weeks ago. I wanted to hold off on doing a blog post to let things soak in and also link to a special podcast episode I did on the race.
I took my recording gear, for my Weathering The Run podcast, to the race and interviewed a handful of runners during the pre-race dinner that took place the evening before the race. There were some really impressive runners at the race and it was great to hear some of their experiences running through some wild weather. I also did one post-race interview with a runner that ran the race wearing combat boots and cargo shorts. Feel free to give the episode a listen! My next episode was a listener-favorite last year: holiday episode where I talk with a running store owner about great gift ideas for the runners in your life. This may or may not come as a shock, but most significant owners have no idea what to buy their runners and they often make a common mistake... That episode comes out on November 20th.
Back to the race...
This was my "A" race for the year and I had not run another ultra race since Mohican 100 the year before, 16 months earlier. I throttled back during that time while I had Evan in preschool part of the day then I was with him the rest of the day. So my free time did not allow me to train as much and I was perfectly fine with that. So this race was on my calendar for a long time and I knew I needed to finish it in order to get my Western States lottery ticket.
The race started at 8AM and it was a beautiful fall day in Northern Tennessee. We would run around a bunch of rock outcroppings, along some scenic overlooks, and under the cliff overhangs.
We also ran underneath two rock arches while doing the 100 mile loop. We had amazing photos taken by the race photographers. This photo was taken by Nick Morgan. Misty Dawn was also there taking great shots along the course and at the finish line. It did get warm on Friday with temperatures getting into the lower 80s. The route is a big loop that goes through Tennessee and Kentucky with a little more than 14,000 feet of elevation climbing. We also had a handful of stream crossings where our feet had to get wet, including a river crossing twice where the water was about knee deep and 150 wide.
But man those views! So I ended up getting a lot of blisters on my toes because my first pair of shoes (Hoka Speed Mafate 4) were not big enough for the swelling from all the pounding. I did switch into a wider pair of shoes(Hoka Speedgoat 5, Wide) at mile 60, but the blisters had already formed. I also had trench foot from all the water crossings and higher humidity. We ended up getting some light rain during the night then some heavier rain on Saturday morning. My feet were very painful the final 40 miles and I was very grateful for my friend Joe for being my pace, or safety runner, to join me for the last 40 miles. I did the same for him in September when he ran Grindstone 100 in Virginia.
I love this shot of Joe following me for the final mile of the race and the trees were in peak color.
We grinded it out through the painful feet and got it finished! The 100 miles took me 30 hours and 47 minutes. I came in 62nd place. There were more than 260 people start the race and 149 finished and half of those finishers came in during the final 2 hours of the time that you are given to run the race. So there were a lot of people that dropped out from heat, stomach, feet, or other issues. It was a tough race, but absolutely beautiful! The other cool thing about the race is that it alternates direction each year and if you run the race in both directions then you get a special belt buckle for running the race in both directions. While I was running the race this year and in the pain, I swore I was not doing the race again, but the pain is gone and I want to see the portions that I missed during the night... So I plan on going back and running it again next year. I also want to run the Laurel Highlands race in Pennsylvania in June, which will get me my Western States qualifier earlier next year. For now I am enjoying running for the fun of it and I also joined the gym to start doing more strength training. I am hoping that it will help me with endurance for the later miles of these races and build muscle to climb the hills and mountains easier. Always room for improvement! Have a good one!
Well hello everyone! I wanted to share some data I dug up for our winter outlook. This is all very preliminary and just a hypothesis of what may be coming this winter. First, let's look at the big global picture. We had a relatively strong El Nino the last 12 months. El Nino is when the ocean surface in the central & eastern tropical Pacific warms up. That is shifting and the Pacific Ocean is showing signs of cooling down & switching back to La Nina. I used the image above (click to enlarge) to take a look at years when we were switching from a stronger El Nino one winter and transitioning back to La Nina heading into the following winter. I feel like 1966, 1970, 1973, 1983, 1998, 2007, 2010, and 2015 matched this the best. If anyone notes other years that should be included, let me know.
Now for Central Ohio, let's dive into our current situation...
Ohio is currently experiencing the worst drought since the Drought Monitor started in 2000. There have been a lot of people comparing this to 1988. This year is a little different because this has been a rapid onset of a drought. 1988 had 1987 to assist with the drought issues then. We were very dry in 1987 and we started 1988 very dry. We eventually did get more rain during the summer and late summer of 1988 to help bring Ohio out of the exceptional dry spell. Ohio was wetter than normal in 2022 and 2023. This year started with wetter than normal conditions for January, April, and May. But since June 1st Columbus has barely picked up 5" of rain. Normally we should have picked up around 15" of rain already. So we have had a rapid onset of a drought. This is important for the next comparison. Not only have we been very dry, but we have been very warm. Our temperatures so far, through Sept 16, have averaged a mean around 75°. The normal is 72.6° for June through October 1st. So let's dig into the numbers.
I wanted to look at the years that we went from a moderate or strong El Nino to La Nina, listed earlier. I also then did a tabulation for Columbus, Ohio of rain and temperature averages from June 1st through October 1st. I know we are a couple weeks away from October 1st, but our dry and warmer than normal pattern looks to continue through the end of the month. As you can see there are other years that are much wetter than this year. Actually all are wetter than this year. If you look at all of the years since Columbus has kept record, going back to 1878, this is the driest stretch we have ever had from June 1st through the middle of September. So this year is definitely an outlier with how dry it has been. As far as our temperatures, we are much warmer than normal too. Through today's date we are ranked as the 13th warmest stretch from June 1st through the middle of September. So a few years in the El Nino to La Nina are kind of similar. We can throw out 1966, 1970, 1973, and 2015. That only leaves us with 4 other years that are slightly drier than normal for the "summer" and near or above normal for temperatures.
So what happened those 4 years after drier and warmer "summers"? Well we ended up with a mixed bag. Two of the years were much cooler than normal. One year was much warmer than normal and the final year was near normal for temps. So we are not getting a good handle on the temperatures for the winter. When we look at the snowfall though for the 4 years they all indicate near normal or snowier winter for Central Ohio.
So what do I think we will experience in Central Ohio? Everyone wants to know now what will happen this winter. Based on the past years, it looks like this winter may make up for the last couple of years with very little snow. We may end up with near normal snowfall or more. But it is still too early to know for sure. We need to wait until December 1st. Why? Because we need to see where that polar jet stream (blue arrows) sets up to start the month of December. If it dives a littler farther south then we will likely trend a little cooler the rest of the winter. La Nina often brings wetter winters than normal, but if we trend colder then it would mean more snow. But if the polar jet stream does not dive quite as far south then we will likely be wetter than normal still, but we may end up with more rain than snow. Marshall McPeek takes a lot of time to dive into our winter forecast outlook. As a weather team we all chip in with what we see for the official winter prediction. This particular article is just a little of the behind the scenes look at early thoughts and an unofficial winter prognostication. So stay tuned as we get closer to the middle and end of fall as we continue to monitor the switch from El Nino to La Nina.
In the mean time, I have taken on some new things in my spare time. I officially closed my Balm By Buck business earlier this year. It was a fun run over the last 5 years running my own small business, but I was so busy with my kids and sports that getting everything shipped out on time was stressing me out. I did start a podcast in early 2023. It is called Weathering The Run. I talk to runners about the craziest weather they have run through and so far it has been very successful and I have loved hearing some of the stories. Feel free to follow along on Instagram for new episodes when they come out every 2 weeks. You can also find the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or all other popular podcast apps. I have kept most of my weather-related posts to Central Ohio on my work Facebook page for now. Thanks for stopping on by and have a good one!
I finished the Mohican 100 miler a week ago and finally recovered almost completely. I finished in just over 25 hours with four loops around Mohican State Park. Lap 1: went out fast for first half while it was cool and then throttled back. Lap 2: survive the heat, dodge the mountain bikers, listened to some music to pass the miles.
Lap 3: quick sock/lube change before starting. Pain cave. Drained from the heat and tried to stay hydrated. Took a while for my body to finally cool down. Jordan paced me and we shared some good stories and miles at night settled in...
Lap 4: sleep deprivation. I was loopy and trying to ride the caffeine wave. Lee paced me and kept me from going off-trail and down an embankment when I wasn't walking straight. Sun started coming up and we got a second wind & crushed the final miles.
Finish: kids ran with me through the finish line. Started getting "the feels" for the training to pay off and for support of friends and family. Big thanks to my wife Dawn for being flexible the last few months so I could train around my shifted work schedule.
Not done training... Now I am training with Summer for her first 5k. I am emceeing the Hilltop USA 5k in a few weeks and I asked Summer if she wanted to run for the event. She said yes and our training hasn't been ideal, but she runs so much with soccer and being a kid that I am sure she will finish and I am excited to join her in the event. We tried to outrun the rain yesterday and Evan wanted to ride along and offer positivity.
The kids are getting so big! We have been having a lot of fun this summer and I let them pick what they want to do each day for activities. We checked out COSI earlier this week and today will be checking out new parks.
Rain is moving out and sun will return later today. Another round of scattered storms will return later tomorrow. It is a very wet start to the day with most of the area picking up 1” of rain and a few pockets seeing closer to 2” of rain. The rain is moving out early this morning with just a few sprinkles or pockets of drizzle for late-morning. Clouds will clear out more in the afternoon for some sunshine to return. Morning temps are in the upper 50s and we will warm back into the mid 70s. Mostly clear and cool tonight with temps dipping back into the mid 50s. Thursday we will start with sunshine then more clouds in the afternoon with scattered storms popping up for the afternoon/evening and a high of 80. Severe storms not likely but a few gusty cells with small hail are possible. This is with a cold front and we will be cooler by Friday. Partly cloudy on Friday with a high of 76. Mostly sunny on Saturday with a high of 81. Then partly cloudy on Sunday with a high of 82. Morning low temps will be in the upper 50s. So we have some ideal weather for the Creekside Blues and Jazz Festival, Columbus Pride festivities, Columbus Air Show, and so many more big events planned this weekend. Monday we will see some pop-up storms possible in the afternoon along with Tuesday. Highs will be in the lower 80s and the best chance of rain looks to be more to the south for early next week. Have a good one!
It is crazy that we are nearing the end of April already. The kids and I tried doing some fun stuff during spring break, like going to the zoo. Summer also asked for just a couple rest days where we just hung out around the house. I am totally down for that. I did have them go around the fence and find nails that worked their way out. They took turns hammering them back in and saved me about 15-20 minutes, plus they had a blast!
My latest podcast episode with John Kelly came out this morning. I was extremely honored to get a chance to talk with him. I have listened to a few podcasts with him and weather was briefly touched-on during each one and this gave us both a chance to expand on it. You can find Weathering The Run on any of your favorite podcasting apps from Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcasts. His list of accomplishments is huge, so to share 30 minutes with him was a real treat.
I ran in the Buck Fifty, 150 mile, relay race over the weekend. We had to chance up our line-up of runners a few times because of injury or other issues. So the final five of us were acquaintances, but we ended up with a handful of great friendships that will last a long time.
I had a good friend, Rick Ray, stop by a few of my legs that I ran and he snapped this photo. I took videos of the other runners doing their hand-offs(that video is below), but this is one of the only photos snapped during my turn at running. This was the start of my first leg (Leg 3 of 30 overall) and I ended up getting POURED on with lightning and heavy rain. There was a lightning delay when I reached the next checkpoint. I never run without a shirt, but my shirt was weighing about 10 pounds and I was in the middle of nowhere on a bike path so I just carried the shirt the last 3 miles of this leg. Once I handed off the GPS tracker to Mike at the checkpoint I was dumbfounded why the next runner didn't take off. We ended up waiting about an hour before the lightning delay ended and all the runners started going again.
In the end... we finished! And actually we finished in 3rd place for the 5-person teams! A few more details on running in The Buck Fifty relay race. It’s a race of around 100 teams (5 or 10 person) around Ross County and Chillicothe. All the money raised goes towards Drug Free Clubs of America, for the local youth. Amazing cause and an amazing race.
The race is 150 miles long with about 11,000 feet of climbing on the beautiful foothills of Appalachia. My team covered the miles in just under 21 hours. So many memories were made and everyone on the team pushed hard for each of our legs we ran. The legs varied between 3-7 miles with about 80% on the road and 20% on trails. So it came out to about 30 miles per person for our 5-person team.
The race starts in waves so there isn’t 100 vans of runners at the same spot. Our wave started at 4PM with darkening clouds and very warm temps. The race had a lightning delay for about 90 minutes while I was out on a leg. I sprinted to the next checkpoint and got to shelter. But we started back up again with a break in the rain for a couple hours before we had 6 hours of constant moderate rain. Temps got much cooler overnight. We all were soaked and chilly, but kept pushing on. The rain tried it’s best to lull us to sleep, but we kept moving and the sun came up and the clouds parted for a beautiful sunny morning to crank out the remaining miles. It was so awesome to see sunshine and blue skies again! Towards the end of the race we all kept saying how trashed our legs and body felt from pushing so hard, but we would recoup and go out and run as hard as we could for the next segment.
The team did talk about doing an episode of Weathering The Run on the race and potentially asking the race director, Dave Huggins, to come on and join us. Not an easy task to do a lightning delay on a race that is spread out all over the county and the make the call to start the race again. Plus we all had to run through the rain all night and that left our cargo van with a distinct scent for a while. It seemed to go away though after a while, but maybe we got used to the wet-dog and worm smell. HAHA!
Big takeaways: It was extremely well organized. They gave us two booklets to breakdown each leg of the race and it was like the old TripTik my grandpa would get for vacations. Each segment had details for running and how many hills there were plus turn by turn directions. This year they had GPS trackers that each team would handoff and it made tracking your runner very helpful to know when to be prepared to run the next leg. Amazing volunteers! These people were donating their time to stand under a tent in the rain in the middle of the night to document our team/time to make sure everyone was safely completing the event. The kids/program we helped were very grateful. They wrote thank you cards to all the runners thanking them for their support. Several areas were decorated with hundreds of signs of encouragement. My team… Can’t say enough about how much fun we all had. We kept taking turns jumping out of the van to go run our segments and jump back in the van soaked, sweaty, muddy, chilly, exhausted, smelly… but always smiling. We had so many great laughs and most of us did not know each other very well before this event. I made new life-long friends at this event and I HIGHLY recommend getting involved with this event going forward.
Good Wednesday morning! We have a few isolated rain showers this morning with clouds, but that will clear out for sunshine today and a high around 60. Light breeze out of the north today. Mostly clear tonight with frost and low temps in the mid 30s. We warm back up to 65 tomorrow with early sun then more clouds through the day. Rain returns Thursday evening. Take advantage of the dry weather later today and tomorrow because it is looking soggy heading into the weekend with shorter dry periods. Friday will start with steady rain then scattered rain later in the day with a high around 66. Saturday could start with a few showers then we are dry for the middle of the day with more rain returning from the northwest later in the day. Highs in the upper 60s on Saturday. Scattered showers return on Sunday with a high around 60. Winds will start picking up, 10-20 mph, through the weekend and we remain breezy early next week. Cool with lingering showers on Monday and a high of 51. Slight chance for showers on Tuesday with highs around 56. Have a good one!
The wife and I took a quick trip to Las Vegas with some of her family and a couple of their friends. It was a lot of fun to get away, but it was actually very chilly there!
Timing just happened to line up with the half marathon, so I did run that. It started in the late afternoon and you run as the sun is going down and Vegas turns on all the awesome lights. Fun event!
Now I am back home and back to reality. Our 5 person weather team is down to 4 people right now, so I have been working a lot of extra shifts. Being short-staffed at work is a big reason why I have not had as much time to updated the blog. I am trying to get to it, but then something else is added to my plate. I am backing off on school talks until we get another person on the team. And we have had a lot of extra projects at home. I had to fix our washing machine. I am also building this custom end table for our living room with recessed cup holders and a powerbank. I am also refinishing an hallway table I found for the kids to use as a craft table. Cut down the legs and found some great wooden toddler chairs. We also got a bunk bed for the kids and reorganizing some of the rooms. I built 3 bookcases yesterday for more shelving. Always something going on.
I have been logging some big miles with some friends. We did 24 miles at Tar Hollow recently. Lots of big hills and climbing there. Also a lot of downed trees across the trail making it more of an obstacle course than a true run.
My latest episode of "Weathering The Run" is out, with Star Blackford. She talked about heat training for running Badwater 135 across Death Valley. Not only just about getting the body ready for the heat, but getting the body ready to take on lots of fluids to run across the hottest place on earth. This coming year will be her second time running the race, but she often goes out to help crew other runners attempting to battle the elements. I have a couple other guests lined up and excited to chat with them. I don't feel like it is a lot of extra work because I am always excited to hear the craziest weather they have had to endure.
Hopefully you enjoyed the beautiful sunshine as we celebrated the Spring Equinox yesterday. Today we will see more clouds arriving through the day with morning temps dipping into the lower 30s and then rebounding back to around 57 this afternoon. We stay dry today and it is the only dry day on the 7-day forecast. This evening rain showers will start arriving from the southwest and we will have light rain overnight and temps dipping to around 40. Cloudy for Wednesday with the early light rain showers and then another wave of rain showers later in the day. We may see some spotty light rain during the day itself, but most of the rain will be early and then again late. High temps in the mid 50s on Wednesday. Thursday we get a surge of warm air and morning temps will be around 50 then we reach a high around 70 by the afternoon. The extra warmth will give more fuel for scattered showers and storms on and off for the day. Right now severe storms are not likely, but localized flooding will start to be a concern for Thursday through Saturday. Heavy rain at times for Thursday through Saturday. Friday and Saturday will be cooler with highs in the 50s. Rainfall totals will vary depending on the track of the heavier pockets of rain, but 2” of rain possible for some areas and even localized locations could see more than 3” of rain by Saturday night. Sunday we get a slight break in the rain with mostly cloudy skies, but another wave of rain possible Sunday night into next Monday. Highs around 60 for the weekend and then lower 60s on Monday. So get outside and enjoy the mild, dry day today! Have a good one!
I took Summer to our first Father-Daughter dance last weekend. We both had a lot of fun. I am excited to see her grow up into an amazing woman, but I will really miss these younger moments.
Weather has been up and down lately, but generally up. I have been able to take Evan out for some runs in the stroller lately. So for February, that has been nice.
I love being able to see unique things on my runs. Daffodils were already blooming on my run at Great Seal State Park over the weekend. I also found this unique tree. Not sure what caused the bark to be shredded like this, but I reached out to ODNR to see what they think.
Sooooo... I started a thing. A podcast! I love hearing people's stories about crazy weather on their runs and chatting with people. So why not actually host conversations?!?! You can find Weathering The Run on any of your favorite podcasting apps. The main website is anchor.fm/weatheringtherun if you want to listen to the episodes on a web browser. I have debated doing a WordPress to also host the content, but I am not sure of the benefits of doing that to be honest.
So far I have the trailer out and Episode #1 with my good buddy Mike Gampp. I also have the second interview done and that will be released March 1st with Samuel Hartman. Both are great episodes and I am very thankful for both of them helping me get it started. The interview coming out with Samuel is jam packed and it went longer than the 30 minutes I had planned because there was so many great stories and things to cover. So go check out what is out already. And if you can, please subscribe and review. I don't think there are any reviews yet, so you could be the first one! Plus it helps others find the podcast. Thanks!
Each day this week has something to be prepared for in Central Ohio. Today and Thursday will be our windiest days. Tomorrow, Wednesday, will be our wettest day. Thursday will be our warmest day and forecasted to tie the daily record high temperature followed by Friday being our coldest day.
Pockets of fog this morning in some of the valleys, but winds are picking up so that will not last too long. We have a weak disturbance causing some light rain showers in Indiana early this morning and they are going to swing into Ohio early this morning with clouds. This will kick out east fast with some afternoon sun coming out for Central Ohio. Temperatures are around 40 now and only warm to 48 this afternoon. Winds will pick up today and be strongest midday with gusts 35 mph possible, out of the west.
Tonight our temperatures fall into the mid-lower 30s, especially Northern Ohio. Rain showers will move in by daybreak tomorrow and Northern Ohio could start out as a wintry mix then change over to rain. It will be a wet morning with rain most of the morning then a break in the rain midday and the afternoon. Temperatures will climb into the lower 60s by late in the day. We will have winds out of the southeast 10-15 mph. Another round of rain likely later tomorrow including a few rumbles of thunder, but severe weather not likely.
Thursday will start out with some early rain and then sun tries coming out with temps going from the upper 50s in the morning to the lower 70s by the afternoon. It will be windy on Thursday with winds out of the southwest 20-30 mph and gusts 45 mph possible. A cold front will sweep across Ohio in the late afternoon and evening and that may trigger some isolated rain again. Temps fall fast Thursday night.
Friday is partly cloudy with morning temps around 28 and a high of 37. The weekend has some very weak disturbances with a slight chance of some showers. Morning temps around 30 and highs around 50. More rain looking likely next Monday with temps in the upper 50s. Have a good one!
Sun started coming up and we got a second wind & crushed the final miles.
It was extremely well organized. They gave us two booklets to breakdown each leg of the race and it was like the old TripTik my grandpa would get for vacations. Each segment had details for running and how many hills there were plus turn by turn directions. This year they had GPS trackers that each team would handoff and it made tracking your runner very helpful to know when to be prepared to run the next leg.
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