Cool, mostly dry evening as high school football playoffs kick off across Northeast Ohio

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Fans heading out to high school football playoff openers across Northeast Ohio on Friday night can expect classic early November conditions — cool, brisk and mostly dry, with a few isolated lake-effect sprinkles possible east of Cleveland.

Low pressure that brought Thursday’s steady rain will shift off into New England by Friday evening, allowing partial clearing across much of the region.

However, lingering moisture over Lake Erie will keep clouds and a few lake-effect rain showers in play, mainly in the primary snowbelt counties of Lake, Geauga and Ashtabula, according to the National Weather Service in Cleveland . Elsewhere, skies will be partly to mostly cloudy but dry through kickoff.

Temperatures will hover around the upper 40s to near 50 degrees at 7 p.m., sli