Get ready for the Jekyll-and-Hyde month of March to continue. Later this week you’ll need to break out the shorts before you scramble again for the winter coat and scarf.
We’ll see some clouds to sun, along with a continued chill in the air, as temperatures will remain stuck in the unseasonably cold forties. (The normal high is around 55 degrees).
On Wednesday, we will see a transitional day as milder air riding up over the chilly Canadian air will produce a few scattered afternoon showers as temperatures nudge into the fifties.
By Thursday, a strong storm system will be riding up to the west of us and this will allow for strong southerly winds to send temperatures soaring at least into the mid-sixties and in a few places the mercury could make a run at seventy degrees. Unfortunately rain and possible scattered thunderstorms (when was the last time you heard thunderstorms in the forecast?) will make Thursday a dreary day, with the threat of locally heavy rain, but at least it will be very mild.
In the wake of the storm, on Friday a late season arctic front will push through sending temperatures tumbling by day, back into the forties, after a relatively mild Friday morning.
The temperature tumble will continue Friday night back down into the twenties. A reinforcing shot of arctic air will invade Saturday as we have a pretty good chance of some flurries or snow showers. I believe temperatures will never make it out of the thirties on Saturday and, by Sunday morning, some record cold temperatures could fall. Readings by early Sunday morning should bottom out between twenty and twenty-five degrees in Philadelphia and down into the teens in some of our northern and western suburbs.
I see no real prolonged spring warm-up as we start to move into April. I know you’re ready to put this winter behind us, but I still see the possibility of some snow up until 15 April. After that, you’ll be safe putting the snow shovels away.
Rico says enough already...
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