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Some needed rain has soaked the area through your Tuesday morning. Here area some of the initial reports as of 8 AM Tuesday. If you have a rainfall total and would like to share it with us e-mail me at cvickers@wtol.com and I would be happy to include it.

Mansfield: 1.00″
Lorain: 0.82″
Defiance: 0.61″
Metcalf Field: 0.47″
Toledo Express: 0.38″
Findlay: 0.35″
Adrian: 0.24″

The heaviest of the rain fell over our eastern counties, which were in the closest proximity to the center of the low pressure system that tracked east of the area. Updated totals still to come…

It looks like a chunk of chilly Canadian air will sink southward into our area next weekend.  After achieving some 70s during the middle of this week, temps will drop by Saturday.  Highs this weekend should be below 60, and overnight lows Sunday morning have the potential to go slightly below 40°.  Sunday night into Monday will see lows in the mid 30s.

Here are some previous cooler highs & lows:

HIGHS:

• 64°  Saturday (Sept 25)
• 55°  May 18
• 52°  May 12

LOWS:

• 45°  Sept 5
• 42°  May 11
• 32°  May 10

Here are the peak wind gusts from around the area today:

54 mph  Metcalf Field

52 mph  Findlay

49 mph  Toledo Express, Defiance

48 mph  Lima

41 mph  Adrian, Hillsdale

With the start of fall, we now have just slightly over 12 hours of daylight. (Even though equinox means equal day & equal night, since the earth is not a perfect circle, not all areas have exactly 12 hours of each on the first day of fall.)

In a few days, we will drop below 12 full hours of daylight as we continue to lose about 2-3 minutes of daylight each day.

Since the start of summer, roughly three hours of daylight has been lost.  We will lose another 3 hours of daylight between now and the start of winter on December 21. 

That will be the bottoming out of the daylight drop.  Once we pass December 21, we will begin to add daylight each day as we get closer to spring.

Highs Tuesday afternoon should reach the upper 80s & lower 90s, making it the warmest day since the beginning of the month.  Temps will stay above normal through the end of the work week.

Even though highs will hit the 80s on Tuesday, fall officially begins Wednesday (Sept 22) at 11:09 p.m.  This is the autumnal equinox, marking when the direct rays of the sun fall over the equator.  Those direct rays migrate southward into the southern hemisphere as we get closer to winter.

Igor, Julia & Karl are all hurricanes now.  Karl will make landfall in eastern Mexico on Friday afternoon.  Julia should move north and not affect any land.  Igor, however, could hit Bermuda on Sunday.

You can keep tabs on all the tropical activity with our Hurricane Tracker and the National Hurricane Center.