It felt nothing like March to start the weekend.

High temperatures yesterday reached 75°, breaking a 43-year-old daily record. This was despite much of the day’s heating being cut off by spring-like thunderstorms that moved across our area. As of Sunday morning, no tornadoes had been reported, although there were numerous thunderstorms and hail, particularly in Columbiana County.

The solar schedule will also take some getting used to, as clocks have moved forward one hour as daylight saving time began at 2 AM Eastern time today. This move doesn’t gain or lose any daylight; all it does is shift clocks an hour. This means a sunset close to 6:20 on Saturday is now an hour later, at the expense of a later sunrise past 7:30 am.

Clouds from the system we dealt with yesterday are still holding tough. They’ll linger through the first half of the day before sunny conditions persist for the rest of the day. It might be a little breezy in the afternoon. Temperatures will feel noticeably colder, though still above average, with highs in the upper 50s. Clear skies will allow thermometers to drop near 40° on Sunday night.

Sunny skies will be the name of the game on Monday. Temperatures will ramp back up to the upper 60s, though it will still be rather breezy in the afternoon. While clear skies will persist early, clouds could fill in the gaps late overnight. Low temperatures will sit around 50°.

Partly to mostly cloudy skies are expected on a potentially record-breaking Tuesday. The four-year-old record high temperature for this day is 69°, though most locales should break 70. A shower or two is possible in the afternoon, though the heaviest rain likely won’t impact us until late overnight.

 

 

On another, potentially record-breaking, mild day, showers are likely, though specifics are hard to come by at this point. Steady, persistent rain will open up the day. We could see a brief break in the action, allowing for a bit of a warm-up past 70°, though thunderstorms could impact us later on in the day. The U.S. Storm Prediction Center has outlined some of our area in a 15% probability for severe thunderstorms on that day. Thunderstorms may continue into the evening, but the big story will be a cold front passage overnight, dropping temperatures into the upper 20s. It will be a weather whiplash overnight; flurries will be likely for most as we wake up on Thursday.

Temperatures will not recover, likely not even reaching average. Snow showers, some lake-enhanced, may be a possibility throughout the day as high temperatures will only get into the mid-to-upper 30s. While a persistent breeze will ease up in the afternoon, it will still feel much, much chillier than the days past.

A clipper system may pass to our north on Thursday night, leading our area to get a couple of blow-by snow showers overnight into Friday. If this precipitation sticks around into Friday, snow will turn to rain as we’re forecasting high temperatures soaring into the 50s. Temperatures will drop back down into the 30s overnight, with small chances for a flurry or two.

Dry weather looks to win over the bulk of the day on a seasonable Saturday. Later overnight, however, there is a chance for another system to impact our area, though details and timing are way too early at this point. Chances for snow and rain are nonzero due to this system overnight Saturday and throughout the day on Sunday, which should concern any early St. Patrick’s Day festivities and across the Valley.