Ohio to get relief from high temperatures

STAFF REPORT

This week’s intense weather in the upper Mississippi valley — storms, floods and tornadoes — isn’t likely to affect Northeast Ohio, except in the form of weaker residual showers and thunderstorms today and Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.

Youngstown will see a dip in temperatures next week, however, cooling from highs around 80 degrees Saturday and Sunday to highs in the mid-70s Monday. Tuesday’s high is predicted to be about 70 degrees, and the cool spell could last four or five days. Spring temperatures should bounce back to summer heat the week after, though predictions that far out are speculative, said meteorologist Jim Kosarik, who works for the National Weather Service in Cleveland.

Kosarik said that the “almost epic” storms of the Midwest are the product of a La Ni ±a weather pattern left over from winter, and that cool air from Canada is meeting warm air from the plains. There the faster moving air of the jet stream forms a storm track that flows West to East, but not far enough to bring the big storms to the area.