# Omnibus Weather/AGW thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 2, 2023, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-weather-agw-thread/980601 "2023-03-02T17:02:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 27
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-weather-agw-thread/980601/27 "2024-09-23T12:56:01Z")
Just checked the current forecast. **A** front will make it to the area [Ohio] on Wed, but it is seasonally weak and will only cool things down a few degrees [77] on the high end, never even reaching the 50’s on the low end. The first relatively brisk front of the fall is forecast to move through on the Tuesday of next week, the 1st of October. Which means that, for the entire north-central and northeastern US, we will have NOT seen a strong cold front for 23 days, to the end of September. The main branch of the jet stream hasn’t simply been weak over continental North America, it has been _nonexistent_. Meanwhile, it is somewhere far away which is getting all that missing coolness and such: > **[Heavy snowfall shuts roads, strands motorists in South Africa](https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240921-s-africa-snowfall-closes-roads-strands-motorists-overnight)** > > Roads were closed and motorists were stranded on Saturday following unusually heavy snowfall in South Africa. The N3 highway connecting Johannesburg and Durban was particularly affected, with emergency… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-weather-agw-thread/980601)._