Northeast Ohio Weather: Cold pattern rolls on; snow on the way tonight; temperatures in the 20s this afternoon

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Moisture increased last night and that has resulted in some lake effect snow in Lake and northern Ashtabula County this morning.

Up to 5 inches of fresh powder is possible.

Keep this in mind if you are going to be travelling in these areas.

The rest of us will have a mostly cloudy sky today.

It remains cold with afternoon temperatures in the lower to middle 20s.

The wind will be less than 10 mph so not much of a wind chill.

The latest data is indicating some light snow the first half of today; we’ll get one inch or less with this.

A disturbance tracks south then east of us tonight into tomorrow morning.

A swath of snow develops from west to east after 5:00 p.m.

Snow will be in the area through tonight and tomorrow morning.

Total snowfall from this system forecast to be in the 1 to 3 inch range.

Roads could turn snow covered and slick.

We are monitoring this for the morning drive tomorrow.

Temperatures by early tomorrow morning will be around 20 degrees.

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