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Wondering whether an approaching storm will upset your travel plans?
Need information about the road construction delays you might encounter?
We
have gathered here links to various
governmental websites that provide official information about road,
traffic, and travel-related weather conditions for Ohio, for certain
regions within Ohio, and for surrounding states. We have
also listed a few
commercial websites that provide such similar information, and some
general weather information websites.
 For
Ohio road, traffic, and travel-related weather information, you can also
call 888-2OH-ROAD (888-264-7623), or on weekdays 614-466-7170.
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you have a suggestion for improving this page, or an additional link to
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send it to us.
Official Road/Traffic/Weather Sites
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Site Link |
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buckeyetraffic.org |
Maintained by the Ohio Department of Transportation.
Provides information on construction activity, road and weather
information, and live webcam pictures of some construction
sites. Also includes Ohio road construction project
schedules for the 2006 construction season. |
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OTIS - The Ohio Traffic Information System |
Maintained by the Ohio Department of Transportation.
This is the page from
www.buckeyetraffic.org for OTIS, the Ohio Traffic
Information System, consisting of a map with weather conditions
indicated in color by county, and options for selecting specific
areas by major routes, cities, counties, and maintenance
districts. |
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Ohio Department of Transportation |
This official
organization-wide website of the Ohio Department of
Transportation includes links to the above and much more. |
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USDOT Ohio Page |
This Ohio Traffic
Information page maintained by the U.S. Department of
Transportation, Federal Highway Administration provides links to
some of the above, and also travel information links for
specific localities. |
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National Road
Closure Information |
This National Traffic
and Road Closure Information website maintained by the U.S.
Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration
provides information on both construction and weather related
closures. |
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NOAA Weather Info |
This website maintained by the Wilmington,
Ohio National Weather Service Forecast Office of the National
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), provides
weather-related road condition information. A separate
website,
http://www.dejavu.org/cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=95&url=http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/iln/roadcond.htm,
provides this same information from NOAA, but organized a little
differently and with indexed links and perhaps a more
comprehensive search mechanism. |
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Indiana Info |
This official website
maintained by the Indiana State Police provides road and weather
information for the State of Indiana. |
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West Virginia Info |
This official website maintained by the
West Virginia Department of Transportation provides road,
traffic and travel-related weather information for the State of
West Virginia, and includes links to similar state road
information sites for Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
and Virginia. |
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Kentucky Info
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This official website maintained by the
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is a portal for pages of
information on traffic, travel, weather, and related matters.
For information by telephone, call 511 inside Kentucky, or
866-737-3767 from outside Kentucky. |
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Michigan Info |
This official website maintained by the
Michigan Department of State Police provides advisories
regarding road, traffic and weather conditions affecting travel.
A separate website maintained by the Michigan Department of
Transportation also provides information regarding lane
closures, construction projects and the like (and much
wider-ranging information), but beware - this website is very
slow to load. |
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Pennsylvania Info |
This is the official website of the
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Road and
weather information is available through the "Services and
Software" link on the navigation bar. The information
provided by this site does not appear to be nearly as complete
or accessible as that provided by the other official state
information sites listed above. The commercial
U.S. Road Conditions site
listed below may be more useful. The
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
maintains a separate website, and road and travel information is
available on that site through various links from the main and
certain subsidiary pages. Real-time web cam views are also
available by link from the main page. |
Commercial Road/Traffic Weather Sites
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Site Link |
Comment |
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U.S. Road Conditions |
Ohio Highway Road and
Travel Conditions page from website maintained by U.S. Road
Conditions. This page provides links to the official Ohio
sites listed above and more, including distance calculators,
NOAA weather reports, RV information (propane sources,
campgrounds & RV parks, dump sites, etc.), and an ATM locator.
Similar pages are available for all fifty states, with separate
duplicate links to pages for surrounding states:
Kentucky,
Indiana,
Michigan,
Pennsylvania, and
West Virginia. |
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AAA Ohio Online |
This is the portal page for AAA Ohio
Online, providing access to websites
maintained by AAA regional offices, through which a variety of
travel and road condition information is available. |
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Traffic, Weather & Ski Information |
Ohio Traffic, Weather
and Ski Information Center – a commercial website maintained by
SHG Resources, providing a multitude of links to
traffic/road/weather condition information websites, including
traffic information for all 50 states. It also contains many
commercial links and ads. |
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Highway Conditions |
Another website
providing a multitude of links to weather and road conditions
for Ohio, surrounding states, and the U.S. and Canada generally. |
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Travel Forecast |
Another commercial
website providing road and traffic condition links for each
state. |
General Weather Information Sites
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Site Link |
Comment |
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National Weather Service |
Website maintained by the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), providing official US
weather, marine, fire and aviation forecasts, warnings,
meteorological products, climate forecasts and information about
meteorology. |
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The Weather Channel |
Offers forecasts for cities worldwide as
well as radar and satellite maps. Also includes news stories and
allergy information. |
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AccuWeather |
Weather Forecasts from AccuWeather.com.
Includes hurricane weather, world weather and local weather
forecasts plus radars, news & weather maps. |
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