Due to the ongoing lake-effect snow, the lake-effect snow warning for Cuyahoga, Lake, Geauga, and Ashtabula counties has been extended until Tuesday morning. Heavy lake-effect snow will continue across the warned area to begin the new work week.

Where the snow band persists, heavy snow, one to two inches per hour, is likely. Another foot or more could fall this weekend in the warned area. Travel along the I-90 corridor will be very treacherous. Motorists should be prepared for dangerous road conditions in squalls. I-90 in both directions is closed from Hwy 11 in Ashtabula County to the OH/PA state line.

It looks like a textbook scenario for HEAVY lake effect snow lasting days. That means one inch to two inches per hour snowfall rates will drop visibility to zero and drop intense amounts of snow in a short period of time. Snow totals could reach over 12 inches each day where snow squalls persist.

It’s all fueled by much colder air spilling into Northern Ohio. Very few snow showers are possible area-wide. The main focus will be lake-effect snow squalls east of Cleveland in the snow belt, but on Sunday the lake-effect snow bands are expected to move farther inland and farther west, bringing the threat of heavy snow to more communities, such as eastern Cuyahoga and northern Geauga County. There will be a sharp cut-off in snowfall totals, even the difference between southern Cuyahoga County and eastern Cuyahoga will be a large range. Lake effect snow could linger until Tuesday, but even after the lake effect snow machine is turned off, this week looks cold and snowy!

Stay with the Power of 5 weather team for the latest updates regarding your holiday forecast!

DAILY FORECAST:

Monday: Lake effect snow showers linger. Cold. | High: 34º

Tuesday: Lake effect snow fading. | High: 32º

Wednesday: Few snow showers. | High: 35º

Thursday: Quick clipper with light snow for more communities. Cold. | High: 33º

Friday: Few snow showers. | High: 30º

Saturday: Snow is possible. | High: 30º

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Well, guess what? They won’t be winning 50 games this year, either.

As it stands, the Wizards are 2-16. They started November 2-2. That means they lost 14 straight — or every game they played in the past month. 

Who knows? Maybe December will be better. But it’s doubtful. Washington was built to lose, and lose a lot.

New full-time man Brian Keefe seems to be a decent coach. Rookie Alex Sarr and other youngsters such as Bilal Coulibaly are showing lots of promise. Veterans Malcolm Brogdon and Jonas Valanciunas have produced, but are probably wondering how they got here — and how they can get out. 

Kyle Kuzma and Jordan Poole play hard, though they probably aren’t the top options on a winning team. They are, however, the top options in Washington.

Look, someone has to be bad — and oftentimes, that someone will be really bad. That can work, eventually, if you land The Next LeBron James in the draft. But those players come around about, oh, once in every lifetime.

If that doesn’t happen, you have to focus on your youth getting game experience and coming together, then perhaps swinging a big trade. Sort of like the Cleveland Cavaliers have done after James left. 

Interestingly, Wizards head of basketball operations Michael Winger is a Cleveland native who started with the Cavs. He very well could be following the blueprint of Cavs president Koby Altman. It’s a smart path to pursue.

The Cavs set a franchise record by winning 15 straight to start the season. They appear on their way to big things. And the rise, while difficult at first, has come fairly quickly after James left for Los Angeles. Without a doubt, the Cavs are now superior to James’ Lakers.

So the less is there. And it says to go to where you want to go, well, sometimes there will be a lot of pain (and losing) along the way. That defines your 2024-25 Washington Wizards.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State coach Ryan Day holds the microphone in front of several thousand Buckeye supporters, and he’s telling them how bad he wants to beat Michigan.

Winning this game is his top goal each season, Day says. And the Buckeyes do everything possible to win this game every day.

“But this is not about them today,” Day said at OSU’s skull session pep rally Saturday morning. “This is about us. This is about our team. This is about our fans. This is about our university. This is about our state. This is about our toughness. This is about our work ethic. This is about our integrity, our character, our resilience and who we are as Buckeyes.”

No, Coach Day, this game is about you.

Ohio State lost 13-10 to Michigan on Saturday, a sentence nobody can believe for the fourth year in a row. Losing three straight to the “M-word,” as Day called the Wolverines Saturday, tortured Buckeye fans for the last three seasons. Losing a fourth time to a 6-5 version of UM that has no answer at quarterback? Might cost the coach.

Check your reason at the door: Day wins all the games he should, and he builds a talented roster every season. But after Saturday’s unfathomable, unforgivable loss, Ohio State fans deserve accountability from the coach, regardless of the 66 wins, nine — sorry, ten — losses and a bevy of top-five recruiting classes say otherwise.

Listen to what Day said about this game last week. In a television interview, he called losing to UM “one of the worst things that ever happened to me.” When asked about those comments during his Tuesday press conference, Day compared this game to military action.

“This game is a war,” Day said. “Anytime there’s a war, there’s consequences and casualties. Then, there’s the plunder and the rewards that come with it.”

If this game is a war, then styles make fights. And even if Ohio State had won the battle on Saturday – which, again, for the fourth straight time, it didn’t – This game proved without a doubt that the Buckeyes have lost this war.

They say styles make fights, and for much of the last decade, Ohio State and Michigan made for the perfect contrast. The Buckeyes, who hoard five-star receiving prospects and first-round NFL quarterbacks like grandma collects family pictures, forced UM to play modern football. Throw the ball, play in space, subtract a linebacker for a safety. Day’s Buckeyes hung 56 points on 2019 Michigan using this strategy.

But somehow, over the past four years, Michigan has bullied OSU out of its identity and dragged the Buckeyes to UM’s bruising, run-first level. The Buckeyes ran 26 times on Saturday for 77 yards. They threw 33 times, five of which came during the fourth quarter, which means that, for three quarters of the most important game of Ohio State’s season (Day’s words), the Buckeyes chose three yards per carry about as often as they chose their strongest attribute. Oh, and the opponent was missing its best cornerback.

They also missed two field goals, threw two interceptions and had too many players on defense for that converted a crucial third down on UM’s go-ahead drive. They also gained one yard on their final fourth-quarter drive and 10 total yards in the fourth quarter. They also fought Michigan at midfield as the Wolverines planted their flag on the block “O” at Ohio Stadium for the second time in four years, and there will be Buckeye fans who want Day fired as a result.

Sounds crazy, I know, and I’m not saying I agree. But losing as a three-touchdown favorite to your rival also sounds crazy. So does failing to achieve your top goal, for which you prepare every day, four times in a row. And so does telling your fans how much this game means to the program (they already know), then losing it to a six-win version — sorry, seven-win version — of your opponent.

Ohio State coach Ryan Day held the microphone during Saturday’s game in front of more than 100,000 Ohio State fans. What do you think this result says about his place in the rivalry?