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Weather Alert Day issued for Friday with snow, extremely cold temps and high winds expected

Snow, frigid temperatures and high winds expected

The latest weather forecast from WCPO's 9 First Warning Weather team.

By: Steve Raleigh

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Heading to our Tuesday morning, it'll be another mostly cloudy and cold day around the Tri-State. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will will mainly be a copy and paste forecast. The elements are lows in the 20s, highs near 40 and mostly cloudy skies. It's Thursday afternoon and evening when an uncomfortable weather transition happens.

An area of low pressure will dominate the weather headlines over much of the country, including here. We'll see rain develop in the afternoon and continue through midnight. It's near that time when arctic cold air will begin to sweep across the area changing the precipitation over to snow. The snow continues into Friday morning. At present, the snow looks to be on the light side, but that could change as the track of the system is NOT set in stone. As snow continues, it appears we'll see light snow through the day on Friday and there's a 30% chance on Saturday as well. Sunshine breaks out on Christmas Sunday.

Now, some weather elements look to be a near certainty. Highs winds will gust over 40 mph going into Friday and the arctic air will invade the Tri-state. The combination will lead to sub-zero wind chills, perhaps to -15 below! These dangerously cold conditions will continue into the Christmas weekend.