Cleveland Area Weather Impact Forecast: Wildfire Smoke Brings Very Poor Air Quality Through Tomorrow Southampton Local Elections 2026 [1DyzdtfYiWm]

Your 7 p.m. Northeast Ohio Weather Impact forecast for July 16, 2026: An Air Quality Alert continues for all of Northeast Ohio for tonight and Friday as a thick batch of wildfire smoke continues to drop in from the north. This will be among some of the worst air antonio cipriano quality we've had here in northern Ohio.

Skies will be smoky all night. Expect lows in the 60s tonight as this front brings in slightly cooler, less humid air.

Surface smoke will continue to slide in across Lake Erie on a northerly wind flow Friday and Friday night. We won't see improvement to our skies until early Saturday as a warm front moves in and winds veer in from the southwest.

After our hot and dry week, we'll finally see rain chances return with pop-up storms late Friday. Saturday will feature a much higher chance at storms as a cold front approaches. Storms could be strong to severe on Saturday afternoon and evening.

This front will bring us much drier, more comfortable air on Sunday. More smoke could slide in Sunday on a northerly wind, although it shouldn't be nearly as thick. Another shot at rain and storms arrives Tuesday before even more refreshing air moves in by the middle of next week.

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