i am jason nicholas. welcome to "academic challenge." tonight these three teams compete for points, answering questions covering math, history, science and other topics. at the end of the season the top three scoring teams will return

i'm jason nicholas. welcome to academic challenge. the challenge is simple. tonight, these three teams will compete for points by answering questions covering math, science, history and other topics. first, let's take a look at our team standings because, at the end of the season, the top three scoring teams will return for our championship showdown, but these points are very

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. >>> jason nicholas pretty good looking day. >> not too lad leon. a little more spring like versus what we have been seeing. it's been so chilly since sunday morning. right now a live picture over downtown cleveland our sky cam showing mostly sunny skies just a few clouds here and there. sun and clouds will be in the weather forecast for today. right now 49 degrees in downtown cleveland so slowly warming things up. again i think we'll be in the 50s today, 50 right now hopkins. inland so overall a pretty decent afternoon. notice the clouds lingering from cleveland north and east and sunshine breaking out across the south and west medi na and lorraine. 40s and 50s for us but look how close the snow is. only about 150 miles away it is snowing in southern canada so we are right on the edge here of some wintery weather but i think the weather that will really take over for us will be the warming trend. we'll be able to enjoy that through today, tomorrow and into thursday as well. here's your hour by hour. temperatures from the low to mid 50s throughout t

and meteorologist jason nicholas is tracking it all, timing it hour. >> and flakes lingering. two more chances of snow as we head for the rest of the week winter is in no hurry to leave northern ohio. here on our sky cam. notice mostly cloudy skies, early march is here and temperatures certainly don't feel that way. we're in the 20s. mid-20s. 25 degrees certainly a far cry from where we were just several hours ago. temperatures across the region again running mainly in the low to mid-20s. the cold front has moved through, 21, kirtland and 21 shardin. we have snowflakes off of eerie and we have the heavy snow detector on. and where that is hurting steady is southeastern section of cuyahoga county into downtown and sullen, west of the city, lighter stuff and into westlake. here we go, maple heights, north field, twinsburg up and down interstate 271 and as well as 480 and back into portions of portage county and southern geauga county and into the south and west along interstate 71, lodi, westfield, and burbank and into medina. vermilion, wakeman and lolain lorain and elyria with

. >>> and over to jason nicholas who is looking at the weather forecast. how are we looking today, my friend? kind of foggy. >> you feel foggy? >> i got fog in my eyes this morning. >> here it is. it's not just you but everybody. believe it or not, this is a live picture. the cars are moving there on the inner belt and other than that, we are looking at low visibilities, low ceilings here. i don't think our air tracker 5 might be fly this afternoon. we will have to tell them to keep it in the garage. the temperatures now in the lower 40s. it's chilly w again, the lack of sunshine because of the cloud cover and the fog. i expect, though, over the next few hours, the fog will burn off a bit and we may get some breaks and some sunshine here. the temperatures away from the lake are better. upper 40s to near 50. out there and shouldn't cause issues as far as getting to and election day. other than the fact that you drizzle this morning. i think for the most part, we're drying out, though. mostly cloudy skies, this is off for the most part, low clouds and fog. t

. >>> and check in with jason nicholas and lacking at the weather forecast. and spring is on the way. >> the closest we're going to get to spring is happening now and we're going to see the tomorrow and this is a live look downtown in cleveland and we have beautiful sunshine. look at the clouds. a beautiful afternoon for most of us and the only issue will shower. 59 right now in downtown cleveland and again, under a mix of clouds and sunshine. the clouds, for the most part, are across the east and 60 or about ther and we should be in the mid- to upper 40s and the cloud cover is mainly head west, we're looking at sunshine and look at the sun. medina and into lorain, elyria and amhurst looking ooh. we have an unstable atmosphere as the area of low pressure sits and spins to the north and west and some showers to kelly's island, put in bay and another of the shower there and fact, our lightning stacker was on and detected a couple of lightning strikes into catawba and bellevue with wet weather here and a couple of cells of afternoon and otherwise, increasing sun

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. >>> let's check in with motion jason nicholas. >> the sunshine is out there. mostly cloudy skies across the lakes and you head inland south and west, sunshine. here is a live look. astubula mostly cloudy skies and the sun well off to the west here. today is a good blend of sun and sunshine and the good news than what we have seen so far to start spring. let's take a look. astubula, a steady rain across route 2 and see that area of yellow indicating a heavier little shower there. north and also off to the east of astubula. in geneva and portions of lake county and geauga. we are drying things out. upper 60s and low 50s. mild and normal highs this time of the year in the upper 40s and this is nice to have temperatures 10 or 12 degrees above average. akron and canton and downtown cleveland 60. there's the snow, 190 miles away to the north. we will talk about when that will again make a return. unfortunately in northern ohio. nothing like that for tonight. dry. temperatures in the 50s. back to the news desk. >>> determined to take action. today lawmakers take the

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