390 FXUS61 KCLE 100803 AFDCLEArea Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Cleveland OH 403 AM EDT Wed Sep 10 2025
.SYNOPSIS... A surface ridge continues to extend into the area from the New England states. A cold front will cross the area tonight. A high pressure system will build from the north for Thursday and Friday. Another cold front will enter the region for the weekend.
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.NEAR TERM /THROUGH THURSDAY/... Quiet weather continues through Thursday with high pressure to the east and another system entering from the north behind a dry cold frontal passage tonight. A lake breeze will develop once again this afternoon and have some northerly flow adjacent to Lake Erie. Temperatures will continue to climb a few degrees higher today from the mid 70s to lower 80s and these highs will remain steady into Thursday. The atmosphere has decoupled well over the last several nights and expect low temperatures to be a bit below deterministic guidance and have a mix of 40s and 50s.
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.SHORT TERM /THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT/... Weather will remain quiet through Saturday with surface high pressure building from the north and an upper level ridge building from the southwest. Temperatures will continue their incremental rise with mid 70s to lower 80s expected on Friday followed by 80s for most of the area on Saturday. Low temperatures will also slowly climb from upper 40s to lower 50s on Thursday night to upper 50s to lower 60s by Saturday night.
For Saturday night, the mean guidance continues to extend a cold front across the area with a low chance of rain. The local area will remain in the middle ground of the upper ridge to the west and an upper trough digging into the northeast, which will support this front and parent low pressure system. Given the better support to the east, remain skeptical on much precipitation over the local area, but will retain some 20% PoPs for now. Any rain that does fall will be low QPF and largely inconsequential.
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.LONG TERM /SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/... The forecast for early next week remains quiet as high pressure will return to the region on Sunday and the upper ridge axis will be overhead and squashing any widespread rain chances. Given the cold front mentioned above in the short term period, there could be some low rain chances carrying over into the first part of Sunday, but the bulk of the area will be dry. Otherwise, temperatures through the period will be seasonable and daily lake breezes will be expected.
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.AVIATION /06Z Wednesday THROUGH Sunday/... Aloft, primarily SW`erly to W`erly flow is expected over our region through 06Z/Thurs as a trough axis approaches from the Upper Midwest and nears the longitude of KTOL by 06Z/Thurs. At the surface, a ridge continues to nose into our region from northern New England and the Canadian Maritimes, which will allow fair weather and mainly VFR to affect northern OH and NW PA. However, a very weak cold front should begin to drift S`ward across Lake Erie after 00Z/Thurs.
A weak MSLP gradient accompanying the ridge will allow our regional surface winds to be primarily calm or variable in direction and around 5 knots in magnitude through the TAF period. However, a SE`erly to S`erly land breeze around 5 knots is expected along and very near Lake Erie, including at KCLE and KERI, through ~14Z/Wed and again after ~02Z/Thurs. In addition, a NW`erly to NE`erly lake breeze around 5 to 10 knots is expected along and within a few miles of Lake Erie from ~16Z/Wed until ~00Z/Thurs, which will also impact KCLE and KERI.
Localized river valley steam fog and radiation fog are expected early this morning, but most TAF sites will not be impacted. However, similar to Tues morning, radiation fog is expected to impact KTOL and vicinity after ~09Z/Wed. Fog will dissipate between ~12Z and ~13Z/Wed, following the onset of daytime warming and resulting convective mixing of the boundary layer.
Outlook...Fair weather and VFR expected through Saturday. Isolated showers and thunderstorms with non-VFR possible this Saturday night into Sunday.
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.MARINE... Wind speeds of 5 to 12 knots and waves of 2 feet or less are expected through this Sunday. A high pressure ridge exits NE`ward before a very weak cold front sweeps SE`ward across Lake Erie tonight through Thursday morning. Ahead of the front, mainly SE`erly to SW`erly winds are expected, but winds will become onshore this afternoon through early evening due to lake breeze development. Behind the cold front, N`erly to NE`erly winds are expected through Thursday morning.
Following the cold front`s passage, another ridge affects Lake Erie through Saturday as the embedded high pressure center moves from the James Bay area to the Canadian Maritimes. Winds will vary between NE`erly and SE`erly Thursday afternoon through Friday. Daily lake breeze development will cause these winds to become onshore Thursday afternoon through early evening and during the same time frame on Friday. During Friday night, mainly SE`erly winds veer to SW`erly due to the N`ward passage of a warm front. Winds should remain mainly S`erly to SW`erly on Saturday, but may become onshore during the afternoon through early evening due to renewed lake breeze development. On Sunday, mainly S`erly to SW`erly winds should veer to N`erly to NE`erly as a cold front sweeps S`ward across Lake Erie and is followed by a ridge building from northern ON and vicinity.
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.CLE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...None. PA...None. MARINE...None.
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