Cold and damp, wintry mix at times, milder weekend

A large storm system over the eastern Great Lakes and Northeast will combine to drive gusty winds and frequent rain showers, mixed with graupel, for another 24 hours, before moving away in time for the weekend.

Temperatures will dip into the 30s in the morning hours and only recover to the mid-40s, with gusty west-northwest winds creating an unpleasant April wind chill.

Skies will clear up this weekend as high pressure slides across the region. Clouds will increase later on Sunday, as the latest in a series of storm systems in the West causes low pressure to develop in the southern Plains.

Moisture will spread northward in the form of clouds and scattered showers, which will affect viewing of the total solar eclipse on Monday over portions of the path of totality.

Ideally, there will be some periods of sunshine in the Ohio Valley region Monday afternoon, with more precise forecasts regarding cloud cover not until the end of the weekend as a couple of upper-level disturbances move east.

Forecast

• Thursday: Showers, breezy, chilly. High 43
• Tonight: Spotty rain, wintry mix, cold. Low 35
• Friday: Cloudy, breezy, stray shower/flurry. High 46
• Saturday: Clouds linger. High 50 (32)
• Sunday: Partly cloudy. High 57 (31)
• Monday: Mix clouds and sun, isolated showers. High 66 (45)
• Tuesday: Mostly cloudy. High 70 (50)
• Wednesday: Showers. High 68 (52)