Jonathan road crews are on 12hour shifts looking to prevent slick roads. Theyll focus on areas prone to freezing and retreating roads. Theyre prepared to stay on duty around the clock through the weekend. Wlwt news 5 leads the way on winter weather. Download our wlwt ap and see the newscast and get Severe Weather alerts on your phone or mobile device. The zika virus is now in cincinnati. The first case, a Butler County woman who traveled to south america. Wlwt news 5s emily wood has more on the message being sent from the health department. Reporter e. R. Doctor joseph kahn says the zika virus is all about mosquitos. Right now, in ohio, its little cause for concern. The main route of contracting the disease is mosquitos. Right now, its so cold that mosquitos arent doing their thing. Reporter dr. Kahn says it would be virtually impossible to casual contact with someone sick. It can be transferred via blood contact or other sex, and thats pretty much it. Reporter Butler County Health Dir
Mark morning, everyone, thank you for joining us. Lisa we star your friday with a check on it forecast. Meteorologist randi rico. Good morning. Randi chilly. Lisa that sounds good. Randi we are rolling into valentine s day weekend, you will have to make your own heat. Lisa my face turned red. Randi it is a little misleading as you look at the numbers at cvg overtop of cincinnati. It says 20. Many spots are close to that. In portions of Northern Kentucky, most places are in the upper teens to write around 20. Further to the north were the skies are clear, it is much colder. 12 degrees right now in hamilton. Six in wilmington, seven and hillsboro. Clouds make a huge difference for us this morning. Some didn t hit the ground. Currently, chances for light, passing snow showers through portions of switzerland county, ohio county, portions of carol and gallatin county. For the morning, everyone will see the clouds increase. Temperature is about 15 degrees at 8 00 a. M. By noon, 23. Still fee
Its sunday, february 14, 2016. Happy valentines day. This is news 5 today. [captioning made possible by wlwttv] jonathan good morning. Welcome to news 5 today. Thanks for joining us on this sunday morning. Im jonathan hawgood. This is meteorologist Jennifer Schack. Did you just put hand cream on . Jennifer i did. Jonathan smells lovely. Were going to need hand cream after we deal with the snow. Sounds like its a shoveling snow. Jennifer two or three inches at my house. Kind of a brush off the car situation. Well be dealing with that this afternoon. This morning, some flurries. Shouldnt be too problematic and widespread. Lets start with the radar. Theres a band from illinois into kentucky, showing snow showers into the morning. That reach the ground. Down through carroll, grant, switzerland county. May see morning activity. Most of us, the 275 loop and east, will stay completely quiet this morning. Well wait for the main event to arrive later this afternoon. The futurecast showing this
Bit, and that is why it is a little colder to the south. Owenton is 25. A typical chilly start to the day, but it will get better as we take a look at the radar, you can see the milky grey tone indicating some clouds overhead. They will slowly thin out. Starting out with the 20 s, but we will make it to the upper 30 s by lunchtime. At 4 00 today, 44. Getting above normal this afternoon but the winds to get tonight. But tomorrow, highs nearly to 60 degrees but windy into friday. One more day to make it through before we get to the weekend and the warmer air is waiting for hopefully, a decent drive. How are the roads looking . Kyla a much better start today than this time yesterday morning. No interstate shutdowns for us. 71 at pfeiffer looks great. No delays on 75 or 71. You can see traffic getting heavier, but that is what we see around the 6 00 hour. Nothing out of the ordinary. Still pretty open eastbound and westbound, much lighter volume than what we saw on the other main corridor.
Greater cincinnati good Jennifer Schack has the impact on the area and when clouds could move out. Sunday, february 21, 2016. This is news 5 today. From cincinnati s wlwt, leading the way. This is wlwt news 5 today. Jonathan welcome to news 5 today. Thank you for joining us on the sunday morning. This is meteorologist and curator of pet rocks, Jennifer Schack. She was making them with her son , weston yesterday. You should tweak some of those pictures out. It was a great day for sitting outside in making pet rocks. Jennifer insureds. Jonathan jennifer in shorts. Jonathan flipflops. Jennifer i used to say the threshold was 74 shorts and it was 72. Tied a record for the day. We will not have that works today. We will salvage a nice afternoon after a very soggy overnight. A look at the radar, steady rain and thunderstorms rolling in just after midnight. We have seen the heaviest and a bulk of precipitation move out. A good portion of us have seen over an inch of rain this morning. Now we