There’s a very specific moment this week when the thermostat is going to give up. One day it’s pushing 90 degrees with the kind of humidity that makes a T-shirt feel optional; a few days later, people are digging out a light jacket for the first time since spring.
Cincinnati is ground zero for the swing. Rain and storms rolled through the Tri-State on Sunday morning, with meteorologists flagging flash flooding as the immediate concern. Behind that system, temperatures were still climbing into the high 80s and low 90s through the afternoon, with dew points sitting in the upper 60s, sticky enough that the “feels like” number matched the actual one. Storm chances build again into the evening, climbing toward 40% overnight as scattered thunderstorms move through.
That’s the last gasp of the pattern, not a new one settling in. Behind this round of storms, meteorologist Erin Ashley and the First Alert Weather team are tracking a drop that sends highs tumbling from the 90s into the low 70s within days, landing right around Tuesday, September 22, which also happens to be the astronomical equinox this year. It’s rare for the calendar and the thermometer to agree that closely; usually one lags the other by a week or two in either direction…