“The bottom line is we live in Cleveland,” says Betsy Kling, chief meteorologist for WKYC. “Cleveland is in a very volatile location as far as weather goes; our weather changes constantly.”
🌨️Cleveland is in, what Kling likes to call, the “weather superhighway” meaning that the jet streams, narrow bands of strong wind in the upper levels of the atmosphere, are on the main storm track, allowing for “barrages of storm systems coming through” and every storm system stirring our atmosphere. This allows for swings, which are especially impactful during transition seasons like spring and fall.
🥶One reason why these cold snaps may seem so jarring is due to our abnormally warm winter, Fox 8’s Dontaé Jones theorizes. Cleveland spent more time in the 40s and 50s during the winter months than it did in the teens, 20s and 30s.
“I think when you look at the whole of things, it's just been so warm for this whole season.” Jones says. “When we look at December, January and February, it was an ...
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