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• Today: Mostly sunny, high 49
• Tonight: Partly cloudy, low 35
• Monday: Clouds increasing, high 65 (43)
• Tuesday: Rain showers, high 57 (38)
• Wednesday: Chance rain showers, high 55 (33)
• Thursday: Sunny skies, high 55 (35)

Today will bring a lot more sunshine and calmer conditions. Winds will be light. Temperatures will be a little warmer, but still a bit below average. Highs will top off in the upper 40s. We can expect the mainly clear skies to continue into the night. Lows Sunday night won’t be nearly as cold, only dropping into the mid 30s.

Tonight we will start to see a few clouds building up, especially by the morning hours. Winds will pick up only a little bit, but they will also begin to shift directions and come from the southeast. This will be the start to the flow of warmer air moving into Central Ohio.

Clouds will begin to increase on Monday along with that warmer air moving in. Temperatures will increase into the mid 60s. This will be the warmest day in the seven day forecast. We'll also start to see some slightly breezy conditions by the afternoon ours.

Tuesday will bring another round of rain showers along a cold front to Central Ohio. Not a lot of accumulation will e expected with these showers. The rain will linger into Wednesday with more mild air. The end of the work week will be sunny with more seasonable temperatures. A few rain showers will build up by the weekend.

The weather turned sharply colder, with blustery northerly winds gusting between 20 and 30 mph behind a low-pressure system along the East Coast heading into New England.

Temperatures struggled to reach 40 degrees, more than 10 degrees below normal for this time of year. Tonight will bring clearing skies and cold morning readings in the mid-20s. Any tender plants, especially those have opened early, should be covered or brought inside.

The weather on Sunday will feature lots of sunshine, as high pressure builds down from the Great Lakes. The morning will be cold, in the mid-20s, but we will warm up to the low 50s.

Monday will be dry and mild, in the low-60s, with an increase in clouds.

A storm in the central Plains will move northeast to the Upper Midwest, accompanied by showers on Tuesday and early Wednesday, as a weakening cold front works eastward.

• Tonight: Clearing, brisk. Low 24
• Sunday: Sunny, crisp. High 48 
• Monday: Clouds return, breezy, milder. High 66 (37)
• Tuesday: Showers. High 56 (47)
• Wednesday: Showers early, some sun. High 53 (41)
• Thursday: Mostly sunny, seasonable. High 54 (31)
• Friday: Mild sunshine. High 61 (35)

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – One person was shot at a Whitehall apartment complex then crashed through a brick wall on Saturday.

Around 5 p.m., a male was shot at The Villages of Eden Crossing apartment complex on Longbranch Lane, according to the Whitehall Police Department. The victim of the shooting then crashed through a nearby brick wall, with the car coming to a stop onto Dimson Drive East. Police have not yet specified if the victim was driving when he was shot, and have not released his condition. 

The Whitehall Police department said no suspects have been detained as of 6:25 p.m.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Two people have been taken into custody by police after a stolen vehicle ended up in a body water on the far southeast side of Columbus.

According to a police dispatcher, a water rescue was called just before 12 p.m. at the intersection of Chatterton Road and Legion Lane. The dispatcher said a stolen grey Kia was in the water and that the two people inside the Kia swam out on their own.

The two people inside the reported stolen vehicle were taken into custody.

GROVE CITY, Ohio (WCMH) -- An Amber Alert has been issued for a 15-year-old girl who has been reported missing from Grove City.

An alert was issued just before 8 a.m. that the victim, Kaylee Cope is reportedly missing. The suspect has been identified as 17-year-old Jeffery Gimenez. In the release, Grove City police said Gimenez is possibly armed and dangerous with a warrant for a robbery out of Pickaway County and a felony kidnapping warrant from a previous incident.

Police said that Gimenez posted a threatening statement on social media Friday towards the victim.

The vehicle has been identified as a silver Honda with black tinted windows that authorities state was possibly stolen late Friday evening. Cope was last seen wearing a pink crop top with gray sweatpants.

The last known location of the victim was in the 2700 block of Independence Way, per the alert. Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or 1-877-262-3764.

The initial push notification regarding the Amber Alert stated that Cope is 13. The office of the Ohio Attorney General clarified that Cope is 15.