Will Cleveland’s fair-weather luck hold for 2021 NFL Draft?
Updated Apr 28, 2021;
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CLEVELAND, Ohio Thursday is the first and biggest night of the NFL Draft, and though rain is likely, maybe Cleveland’s luck for big events will hold.
The Cavs parade in June 2016 was hot, but those skies were shining bright. The Republican National Convention that same year was also sunny and steamy, with 87 degrees as the average high temperature for the four-day period.
The NFL Draft is Cleveland’s big shining moment in the sun, one of the nation’s first marquee events since the COVID pandemic. It’s a chance for Clevelanders to celebrate the success of the Browns and show off our fair city. No night is bigger than the first picks on Thursday.
Spring planting ahead of schedule thanks to abnormally dry spring
GALION - Farmers across North Central Ohio will be out in force this week, disking their fields and planting early soybeans and corn. We re ahead of time with a lot of spring fieldwork, said Jason Hartschuh, Ohio State University Extension agent for Crawford County.
Seeds normally don t go into the ground until later in April, but warmer air and dryer soil this spring have already allowed many fields to be plowed and disked. That s good and bad, Hartschuh said. If we re ahead on spring fieldwork, that means we re dry.
Not quite a drought
A warm-up is on the way, but weather watchers say not to worry about immediate flooding. We re expecting that any snow pack would melt pretty slowly, said Alexa Maines, meteorologist with the National Weather Service s Cleveland office. We ll definitely significantly reduce the snow pack over the next few days, if not get rid of it.
Temperatures are expected to reach into the mid- to upper-40s later this week in the Akron-Canton area.
The spring thaw in previous years has come with heavy rain onto an already saturated ground, resulting in flooding that has done millions of dollars in damage. Quick warm-ups leave snow melting fast.