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Justin Gehrts
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Former TV meteorologist & comms specialist figuring out what he should be when he grows up, dad to a girl and a corgi, Iowa State grad, and year-round ice cream eater. www.justingehrts.com
🏈 Today is the 75th anniversary of the "Snow Bowl," the #Michigan - #OhioState football game that had such awful weather that the teams punted a combined 45 times. Gametime temperatures were in the teens and 7.5" of snow fell that day.

buckeyeweatherbuzz.substack.com/i/179859913/...

#OHwx
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Frosty Frosty. And everything else, too. #OHwx
November 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The people behind the Walmart "WhoKnewVille" Christmas marketing campaign must have skipped this page of the story
November 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
When I was working on today's weather newsletter, I was struck by how today's record low of -3 is so starkly different than yesterday's and tomorrow's (10 and 11, respectively). And then I noticed that year, 1880, had several *more* record cold days at this time — five out of six, in fact! (1/2)
November 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Locally heavy rain southwest of Dayton... 😏
November 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Local news outlet had this as the forecast for today. It is not slushy, and it certainly has not looked like it was going to be slushy for some time.

If you're going to have weather, have a meteorologist.
November 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Did the last mow of the season this morning. Glad I don't have to mess around with gas or oil.
November 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Holy cow, my sister just sent me this photo. Northwest Illinois.
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM
In addition to the snow, it was a cold day in #Columbus. 🥶 #OHwx
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Still needs some work, but I'm mostly there getting Google Sheets to import the WPC list of forecast near/new records and assigning the lat/lon to the station codes to export as a CSV.

I'll confess that I've used ChatGPT to work through the vibe coding.
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Most of the snowfall reports in the #Columbus area were 1–2". I had 2", but only on the grass and elevated surfaces. Streets were just wet. #OHwx
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
2" for our first snow of the season. At least in our neighborhood on the southwest side of the metro, streets are just wet. #Columbus #OHwx
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Getting some light snow observations north and west of #Columbus... dun dun dunnnn. #OHwx
November 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oof.
November 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
If they could make it so a user can click-drag on these charts to tighten the time range, that would be so amazing.
November 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
When you rely on automation and people who don't know about the thing they're writing about, you get stuff like this.

Literally every single day has, climatologically, some amount of rain. Will this forecast article say "this day is usually a bit wet" 365 days a year? That's wrong and useless.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
When I was pulling plants out of the garden and pots, I was really enjoying the warmth of the sun. It'll be a little while before we have a day like today again!

➡️ Here's what's coming over the next several days: open.substack.com/pub/buckeyew...

#Columbus #OHwx
November 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A forecast with...
✅ Wind
✅ Mild temps
✅ Cold temps
✅ Rain
✅ A little wet snow?

The highlights are here: open.substack.com/pub/buckeyew...

#OHwx #Columbus
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
🎅Hung the lights and wreath today, since that's a heck of a lot easier to do when the weather is nice and my fingers aren't freezing. Kid didn't have school today, so she helped (gave me hooks... and knew to call 911 if I fell 🙃)
November 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Already voted... and it's a nice day to hang Christmas lights, so that's this afternoon's task. #Columbus #OHwx
November 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Mine is far from the loudest opinion in the room, but I still firmly take the position of defending the semi-annual time change: buckeyeweatherbuzz.substack.com/i/177830118/...

#OHwx #Columbus
November 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
October 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Following up on this with a little more detail. #OHwx
October 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Friday morning lows around #Columbus... finally dropped into the 30s for the first time this season at CMH, tied for third-latest date for the first sub-40 reading. 34 was the official low. #OHwx
October 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Overcast and windy in late October?

Take the under.

It's 1 p.m. and temps have barely budged since daybreak. #OHwx
October 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM