Winter weather: Latest snow forecast, closures and road conditions Wednesday - The Cincinnati Enquirer

Winter tempest forecasts for up to 6 inches of snowfall for parts of the portion were downgraded aboriginal Wednesday, with the portion seeing above-freezing temperatures.

Local counties successful the Southwest Ohio portion person been dropped from a wintertime tempest informing to a wintertime upwind advisory, and Northern Kentucky counties are nether a hazardous upwind outlook. Most areas saw airy snowfall and rain.

Most counties and cities besides dropped antecedently announced snowfall emergencies.

A wintertime upwind advisory from the National Weather Service successful Wilmington remains successful effect until 1 p.m. for Hamilton, Butler and Warren counties.

Estimates aboriginal Wednesday called for betwixt 1-2 inches falling successful the 1-275 loop. Higher amounts were forecast toward the northbound and west.

Heavy, bedewed snowfall started overnight westbound and northbound of Cincinnati and the upwind work cautioned drivers astir slippery roadworthy conditions.

Cincinnati snowfall forecast

Snow accumulations of up to 3 inches are imaginable done 1 p.m. Wednesday, according to the upwind service.

By 6 a.m. Wednesday 3 inches of snowfall accumulation was seen successful Oxford and 1.5 inches successful Mason, according to spotters reporting to the upwind service.

A graphic posted by the upwind work aboriginal Wednesday showed the forecast for the portion wrong the I-275 loop was 1-2 inches.

Heavier snowfall was forecast successful northwestern Hamilton and Warren counties and Butler County, wherever up to 3 inches was expected.

Southeast Indiana besides falls with the 3-inch prediction band. Southern Northern Kentucky was forecasted to spot accumulations of up to an inch.

What are roadworthy conditions similar Wednesday morning?

Crews were retired overnight and aboriginal Wednesday treating and clearing roads.

The somesthesia was supra freezing astatine 35 degrees astatine 6:15 a.m., causing snowfall to melt successful parts of the region.

Some crashes were reported, including connected I-275 West astatine Springfield Pike astir 7 a.m. and I-75 South astatine Cin-Day roadworthy successful Butler County astatine astir 5:30 a.m. Mostly, roads were slushy and bedewed by 7:30 a.m.

According to a property merchandise from the Cincinnati Department of Public Services, metropolis unit operating brackish trucks and snowfall plows reported Tuesday evening to pretreat roads and volition proceed to enactment 12-hour shifts until further notice.

During a wintertime upwind event, the metropolis of Cincinnati has a live snowfall plow tracker with an interactive representation that shows wherever snowfall vehicles person already been, erstwhile a conveyance was connected a peculiar thoroughfare and the region covered by snowfall vehicles since the commencement of the wintertime upwind event. Here is the link to the mobile version.

You tin besides usage the tracker to report untreated streets.

In a merchandise from Kentucky Transportation Cabinet District 6, which covers Northern Kentucky, officials said snowfall plow crews volition mobilize astatine 11 p.m. and show conditions.

Schools close, telephone delays

Many Greater Cincinnati schools were closed, delayed oregon opting for distant oregon blended classes up of the storm.

Cincinnati Metro had wintertime upwind tips for riders that included a reminder that Metro buses cannot halt connected snowy oregon icy hills, Here are detours and alternate stops.

Upcoming weather

Here's the five-day forecast, according to the National Weather Service:

• Thursday: Cloudy, with a precocious of 35 degrees and a accidental of snowfall showers. There's a 40 percent accidental of precipitation. Temperatures volition dip to 25 degrees overnight, and little than a half-inch of snowfall is expected.
• Friday: There's a 20 percent flimsy accidental of showers aft 4 p.m., with a precocious adjacent 38 degrees. The accidental of showers ups to 30 percent overnight, apt betwixt 7 p.m. and 1 a.m.
• Saturday: Mostly cloudy, with a precocious astir 45 degrees. Overnight, rainfall is apt with a 60% accidental aft 1 a.m. Low of 36 degrees.
• Sunday: It'll beryllium cloudy and determination is simply a 70 percent accidental of precipitation (rain). Low of 26 overnight, with a 40 percent accidental of precipitation.
• Monday: A precocious of 34 and a debased of 24 astatine night.