Ohio settles into a cloudy, dry night to close out Halloween, with no active watches, warnings or advisories anywhere in the state, according to the National Weather Service. The cloud cover that sat over the state through trick-or-treat will hold through the overnight hours, keeping temperatures mild for the last night of October, with lows generally in the low 50s and light east to southeast winds.
Overnight temperatures will bottom out near 50 in Cleveland, 51 in Toledo, 52 in Columbus and Portsmouth, and 54 in Cincinnati, the National Weather Service said. Skies stay mostly cloudy to cloudy in every region, rain chances stay in the single digits to low teens, and winds stay light, so no travel hazards are expected on Ohio roads overnight beyond wet leaves and dark streets after the holiday evening.
In northwest Ohio, Toledo will be cloudy tonight with a low around 51 and a southeast wind around 5 mph. Sunday will be mostly cloudy and warmer, with a high near 69, and Sunday night stays mostly cloudy with a low around 52.
In northeast Ohio, Cleveland and the Lake Erie shore will be mostly cloudy tonight with a low around 50 and a southeast wind around 7 mph. Sunday will be mostly cloudy with a high near 70, and Sunday night remains mostly cloudy with a low around 54, with no rain expected through the day.
Central Ohio, including Columbus, will be cloudy tonight with a low around 52 and east winds of 3 to 8 mph. Sunday turns mostly cloudy with a high near 72 and a southeast wind around 6 mph, and Sunday night stays mostly cloudy with a low around 54.
In southwest Ohio, Cincinnati will be cloudy tonight with a low around 54 and light east winds. Sunday will be mostly cloudy with a high near 72, but Sunday night brings a 30 percent chance of rain after 2 a.m. Southeast Ohio will be among the warmest spots in the state on Sunday, with Portsmouth mostly cloudy and reaching near 75 after an overnight low around 52.
Daylight saving time ends overnight, so Ohioans should set clocks back one hour at 2 a.m. and can expect an earlier sunset on Sunday. The dry, mild pattern continues Monday, with highs from the upper 60s in the north to near 72 in the southeast and only a slight chance of morning rain in central and southern Ohio. Tuesday is the warmest day of the stretch, with highs in the mid- to upper 70s — near 79 in southeast Ohio — before rain becomes likely statewide on Wednesday, when the National Weather Service puts precipitation chances at 60 to 80 percent.
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