The city of Dayton, OH is a big city with an interesting history to it. Weather plays a big role in that history as much as anything else does. Forecasting for this city was rather challenging. It may not seem like it since there are not any local effects such as mountains, bodies of water, or valleys. The only thing that is left to affect the city is larger scale effects such as clouds and fronts. The main determining factor for the temperatures is the wind. You might think that the sky conditions would cause some variability in the city and it does to a point. The speed and direction of the wind was such a key factor that it literally determined your high and low more than clouds did. If winds were light in any direction then it practically had little to no effects on the temperature. If winds reached and exceeded 6 or 7 mph then the direction was key on how warm or how cool it would make the city. To add on to the challenge of Dayton is its location. It is in a prime spot to be affected by mid-latitude systems. Most fronts that drive across the Eastern U.S. will impact Dayton whether it receives a lot of rain or only a little.
The next forecast city is fair away from this city and much further north. It is the capital of The Last Frontier state that has the longest shoreline than any other state of the U.S. and this state holds Mount McKinley, the highest mountain in the U.S.
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