Around for the entire weekend. Got a little color stripe on the horizon on this saturday, february 20, 2016. [captioning made possible by wlwttv] jonathan good morning. Welcome to news 5 today. Thanks for joining us on this saturday. Hope yours is going well so far. Im Jonathan Hawgood. Schack. Citycam 5 giving a very good description of sort of the last couple days weather. It looks warm out there. The color in the sky gives you the hint of warm. Its also misty and you get a sense of unsettled, like that wind we had yesterday. Am i going too far with this . Jennifer read into it whatever you want. Its all good. Jonathan 50 degrees right now, fantastic after the stretch what was felt like zero. Jennifer coming out of snow and cold at the beginning of the week, 50 now. Go. Look how the color is getting more intense and concentrated as we move west. Jennifer interesting that we generally scattered clouds out there this morning. There will be a good amount of sunshine with the clouds for
You can see theres a little bit of breeze. But gusts were reaching more than 50 Miles Per Hour on friday. Strong wind knocked over trees, power and phone lines across Greater Cincinnati. Including clermont county. Friday evening, a 30yearold silver maple came crashing down on a garage on weber road. The family had to use a blue tarp to cover the roof for the night. Luckily, workers from earls Tree Trimming Company were working down the street. We were working in the neighborhood and saw the tree came down and came over to help them out. Any damage was structural. There was no electrical damage. No lines were hit trrks or gas or anything. This is minor, considering what it could have been. Jonathan that is looking on the bright side. Less than half a mile away, part of cook road was closed after a tree took down power and phone lines. A frightening situation in loveland. A tree fell on a truck while a take a look at this. You dont think that looks like much. That tree is heavy enough to
Condition. The sounds of change saws will be heard around Greater Cincinnati today. Strong winds knocked out power, bringing down trees on cars and houses. Well take a look at the damage. And a springlike day ahead for us. Meteorologist Jennifer Schack has weather well see the nice or not. 2016. This is news 5 today. [captioning made possible by wlwttv] jonathan good morning. Welcome to news 5 today. Thanks for joining us on this saturday morning. Im jonathan hawgood. This is meteorologist Jennifer Schack. Have you ever worked a chainsaw . Jennifer no, i dont think so. Jonathan its a feeling of power. Jennifer ive heard stories about your chainsaw. Jonathan ive worked one a few times. I feel sorry for the folks who have to today, because they probably got damage or lost power. Im not surprised. In my backyard yesterday, it was windy. Jennifer lawrenceburg, indiana, had a 56mileanhour wind gust. Jonathan higher than lunken. She oneupped me. Im near lunken. Jennifer everyone above 43 was
Highway. Follow this developing story and bring you the latest on air and online at fox19 now dot com. Also new this morning. A garage fire is under investigation in warren county. Fox19 now viewer leanna hild sent us these photos from turtlecreek township. Crews were called to battle flames at cook road and stubs mill late last night. Dispatchers told us no injuries were reported. Happening now right now i75 south just south of the kentucky tennessee border is shut down. take a look at this video. The Tennessee Transportation Department says this is reason for the shutdown. A major rockslide. So major crews dont expect this stretch of i75 to reopen until march 24th. South for spring affect your plans. Forcing drivers to another hour to your drive. Rob 2shot we want to get another check on this mornings forecast. Frank joins us with a look at the day ahead. A breezy morning as our rain showers have come to a end with partly cloudy skies this afternoon with a dry tonight partly cloudy l
Almost like a holiday, except we work. Randi unless you live in punxsutawney my brotherinlaw was born in punxsutawney on groundhogs day. Kyla how did we not know this . Randi my brotherinlaw, dennis. He goes back every year. [laughter] randi i can confirm this. Give me a second. Temperatures are starting out in the 30 s. We ll see spring. It may be cool this morning but we re making it up into the 60 s. Skies are clouding up and you can see we are on the warm side of the system. The breakdown for today, right now turning cloudy but surely, 34 degrees chilly. Low 60 s this afternoon. The storm chance kicks up towards 9 00 tonight. S check the roads. Kyla things are still looking good on this tuesday. Interstate travel is shaping up rather nicely. You can see no problems there. 275 at hamilton, a few cars toward the interchange, but nothing that will slow you down. Things look good in Butler County. Still very light on 74. No issues, especially on the interstate travel. Enjoy yourself. N