Warm May-Like Stretch Recap

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Hi, this is Midi Roger Steve Pelletier, and I am the Weatherman. Thanks for checking into theWeathermanPod.com on your Wednesday. It's the 11th day of the month of March 2026. And the preview to May weather is now coming to an end. That's right, May weather. The type of conditions that we had both on Monday and Tuesday were more like around the middle of May across the Mid-Atlantic, the northeast in New Jersey and New York State. However, uh, it looks like it is coming to the end. Some of the temperatures today went up to near 80 degrees, and all that snow and the snow banks that were all across the area from the heavy snows that we received this past winter season uh quickly eroding and melting down to just the dirty snowballs in uh some of those larger uh parking lots around the area. So you've probably seen those from place to place, but everything else just starting to come alive. You're starting to see some buds on the trees, and it is and it was a little preview of the month of May, weather-wise. We are going to start getting back to near normal. Now, normal for this time of year usually means highs 45 to 50, nighttime lows down to about 30. And that average temperature continues to rise each and every day. And talking about temperatures of us and looking back in the record books, you know this winter season that we had, you know, if you go with meteorological winter that starts December 1st and it ends on March 1st, those three months, all of December, all of January, all of February, we had temperatures below normal each and every month this past meteorological winter season. Now, of course, astronomically, winter ends around the 20th of this month on Friday of the 20th. However, uh, for those three months, the last time that we had three months of below normal temperatures was back 49 years ago, 1976, 1977, that winter season. It has taken that long. Now, we've had some times when the the one month was very cold and the other ones were either near normal or above normal, or two months were very cold below normal, and the other one wasn't. But to have three months in the row of temperatures well below normal, we really haven't seen that since the uh, as I mentioned, 76, 77, 1976, 1977 winter season. And we only got really about 25 inches of snow that year in the Newark area, New York City. Uh New York City this year, probably closer to about 45 to 50 inches of snow, of course, the big one because of the past uh heavy snowstorm that we had during the month of February. But in the meantime, here we are, getting into a little bit of a cooler flow. The weather situation for today, thickening clouds will bring us some showers and possibly some locally heavy weather across central Pennsylvania. Also a possibility of some locally severe conditions in central and northern portions of New England and icy conditions across the central Great Lakes and snow in the western Great Lakes sections of Wisconsin, just out of southern and eastern Minnesota and heading towards the Chicago area. But it does look like lots of rain across the Ohio Valley and rain also moving in to New Jersey, New York, and the Mid-Atlantic states for the evening hours on Wednesday into Thursday. Then we get into a fair but cooler weather flow, courtesy of high pressure building down, and that should last into this upcoming weekend. Now, if you're traveling by air today, it looks like some IFR conditions in the afternoon and evening will cause some delays in the New York, uh, North LaGuardia, JFK area, uh, Philadelphia and DC, to a lesser extent. There will be some showers, but nothing major there. Boston also will be getting some rain later today. Tonight, more delays early on Thursday because of these weather fronts moving through. But it looks like extensive uh delays in the Cleveland area, Toledo, and even in the Chicago area. There could be some delays because of uh that weather changing from rain over to the possibility of some ice or mixed precipitation. So locally severe conditions in East Texas, northern Louisiana, southern portions of Arkansas. So there will be some problems getting in and around those areas. Houston and Dallas, Fort Worth, probably some delays because of the weather there. Dry in Atlanta, dry also in Charlotte and Central and South Florida, also looking dry, West Coast, dry San Diego, LA, San Francisco. What do you know it? More rain up in Portland and Seattle, and snow in the mountains in the eastern Washington and Oregon and western sections of Montana, northern Idaho. I'm in your walk, just Steve Pelletier, and I am the weatherman. Went a little long today, but we have lots of information to give you. Oh, we'll talk to your first thing on Thursday. See you then. Have a great day.