COLUMBUS – Heat advisories and a few excessive heat warnings remained in effect Sunday for parts of Ohio but a promised cold front moved into the state late Sunday, bringing relief from a weekend of scorching heat.
The National Weather Service said the heat advisories were mainly in central and southwestern Ohio. Excessive heat warnings continued for Dayton and Cincinnati.
The National Weather Service says the “oppressive and dangerous” heat wave that gripped much of the nation will abate Monday and Tuesday with the greatest lingering heat threat is in the Carolinas up to Maine, where temperatures will feel like 100 to 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
Morning temperatures in Ohio ranged from the mid-60’s in Cleveland to the mid 70’s in Columbus and Cincinnati.
The forecast called for high temperatures in the 70’s for all of Ohio during the coming week with overnight lows dipping into the 50’s.
The highest air temperature recorded at John Glenn Columbus International Airport over the weekend was 94 just before 5:00 Friday afternoon and the highest heat index – “feels like” temperature created by combining heat and humidity – was 104 at 4:51 p.m. Saturday, according to the weather service website.
The cold front stretching between the Central Plains and the Great Lakes region moved south, cooling off temperatures but carrying showers and thunderstorms that brought heavy rainfall and flash flooding to the Midwest.
Authorities say they’ve rescued about a dozen people in a county in Wooster and Wayne County in northeastern Ohio and ordered about 400 others to evacuate after heavy flooding after heavy rains led to flash flood warnings.