Lorain, Ohio 7 Day Weather Forecast

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FXUS61 KCLE 210737
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Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Cleveland OH
237 AM EST Sun Dec 21 2025

.SYNOPSIS...
High pressure builds in for later Sunday through Monday. A broad
upper level ridge builds over the central portion of the
country. Milder into the middle and end of the week.

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.NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/...
Cold front sweeping through with yet another airmass change this
morning, with temperatures that will fall without much recovery
through the daytime hours due to cold air advection. Brief northwest
flow across Lake Erie brings a low end lake effect snow setup in NE
OH/NW PA with an inch or less of snow that will end by 03Z Monday
with high pressure moving in over the Ohio Valley. Warm front
approaches Monday with scattered snow showers triggered by weak
isentropic ascent working through the region, mainly affecting the
eastern zones into early Monday night.

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.SHORT TERM /MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/...
Warm sector returns Tuesday briefly, but long enough for
temperatures to return to the 40s, before a cold front with isolated
showers moves through late Tuesday. This will be a Pacific system,
however, and despite the cold frontal passage, expecting
temperatures to only drop a small amount from Tuesday to Wednesday,
with Arctic air now remaining locked north of the lower Great Lakes.
Another warm front works into the area late Wednesday, reinforcing
the milder 850mb temperatures that will remain above 0C.

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.LONG TERM /WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY/...
Unsettled but low impact sensible weather into the end of the week
with a stationary boundary lingering over the CWA. Mild conditions
will persist through Friday with broad upper level ridging over the
eastern half of the CONUS with a potential cooler change into next
weekend in the wake of a low pressure system/cold front.

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.AVIATION /06Z Sunday THROUGH Thursday/...
A cold front will continue to move across terminals overnight
tonight. Most terminals will remain VFR but some SCT low/mid
level cloud cover will be possible through much of the day
today. Terminals downwind of Lake Erie will have the best chance
for periods of MVFR ceilings through late this afternoon. Can`t
rule out occasional snow showers at KERI associated with the
frontal passage to persist through much of the day today.

Westerly winds with wind gusts 20-25 knots have returned with
the frontal passage. Expect for elevated westerly to
northwesterly winds to continue through late Sunday afternoon.
Winds will ease while turning southwesterly to southerly near
the end of the TAF window.

Outlook...Non-VFR will be possible with a mix of rain/snow
Monday night, transitioning to mostly rain late Monday night
into Tuesday morning. Non-VFR will be possible with rain
Wednesday night into Thursday.

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.MARINE...
A cold front will move across Lake Erie with westerly winds
25-30 knots tonight. Behind the cold front winds turn
northwesterly and gradually decrease to 15-20 knots through this
evening. Small Craft Advisories are in effect across the lake
to account for elevated winds with the cold front. Advisories
will drop off from west to east through the day today.

Northwesterly winds 10-20 knots tonight will return
southwesterly by Monday morning. Southerly to southwesterly
winds are expected to increase to 15-25 knots Monday night into
Tuesday before easing below 15 knots on Wednesday as high
pressure builds over the region.

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.CLE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OH...None.
PA...None.
MARINE...Small Craft Advisory until 10 AM EST this morning for LEZ142-
     143.
     Small Craft Advisory until 4 PM EST this afternoon for LEZ144-
     145.
     Small Craft Advisory until 7 PM EST this evening for
     LEZ146>148.
     Small Craft Advisory until 10 PM EST this evening for LEZ149.

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SYNOPSIS...26
NEAR TERM...26
SHORT TERM...26
LONG TERM...26
AVIATION...13
MARINE...13