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Temperature records being set across Northeast and Midwest

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Expect records for high temps to be broken all week across the Northeast and Midwest, a rare event given that we're still in winter.

"We may be seeing about a week where we are going to be possibly breaking or at least coming close to temperature records," said National Weather Service meteorologist Byron Paulson.

It is not unusual to see record high temperatures for a day or two in March, but a week is rare, he said.

"The jet stream, which would normally be cutting across the middle of the country, is way up north into Canada" and keeping the cold weather there, said NBC TODAY show weather anchor Al Roker, leading to warm weather in the U.S.

Forecasts called for records or near-record highs on Wednesday and Thursday in the mid to upper 70s in Chicago. The warmth also brought the threat of thunderstorms to the Chicago area.

In North Dakota and South Dakota, warm and windy conditions prompted widespread warnings that wildfire conditions were ripe for explosive growth if blazes are ignited.

National Climatic Data Service

Yesterday, temperatures soared to record highs in the Northeast.

In Boston, temperatures reached a record 71 degrees Monday afternoon -- eclipsing the former high of 69 degrees for a March 12 set 110 years ago.

The unseasonably warm weather was expected to continue in Boston throughout the week, but likely not with record-setting temperatures, said Bill Simpson, a weather service meteorologist based in Taunton, Mass.

Temperatures also soared Monday afternoon in New York City to 71 degrees in Central Park, tying the record that dates back to 1890, weather.com reported.

Among the 102 high-temp records broken on Monday were those in Albany, N.Y., Bridgeport, Conn., Buffalo, N.Y., Burlington, Vt., and Newark, N.J.

St Louis, Mo., tied its record at 84 degrees, while Saline and Russell, both in Kansas, posted record 83 degrees.

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15 comments // Temperature records being set across Northeast and Midwest

  • tverdell
  • wolfess
  • LivingPong
  • JanforGore
  • coolplanet
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      coolplanet  
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    • ThinkProgress just posted this story about the Cherry Blossom Festival:

      As the planet warms from greenhouse pollution, the Washington DC Cherry Blossom Festival is beginning earlier and earlier. This year, the single-flowered Yoshino cherries and double-flowered Kwanzan cherries may peak at their earliest yet. The Yoshinos may come to peak bloom even before the current record of 2000, when they peaked on March 17, the Washington Post’s Jason Samenow writes:
      "The May-like warmth forecast over the next week promises to give the cherry blossoms a big shot of adrenaline, bringing them to peak bloom considerably earlier than normal (which is around April 1). With the big temperature spike ahead, the peak bloom date could come close to the earliest on record of March 17, 2000."
      This early bloom is no aberration — it’s part of a long-term trend of earlier blooming. The “normal” is moving with the warming of the earth. The National Park Service’s Robert DeFeo has records of the peak bloom dates of Washington DC’s heralded cherry trees since 1921. As this chart prepared by ThinkProgress Green shows, the average blooming time for the trees has moved about 10 days earlier in the last 90 years.

    • 1 year ago
  • Leen61
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      Leen61  

    • "Temperature records being set across Northeast and Midwest" I'm one person that can speak for the Midwest. We are supposed to have a high of 73 tomorrow. Unheard of here in WI for this time of year. Our average high is supposed to be 45. That has been our low! For WI, this is the winter that never was.

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
  • Leen61
  • queenofit
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    • JanforGore:

      It says it is 82 here in Virginia today, and it is everybit that and then some. At this rate it will be in triple digits soon. I may be jumping the gun, it could get cold again, no stopping that either, but we did not have much of a winter here at all. Cherry trees are blooming?

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
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    • http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/0312/Warm-spring-more-tornadoes-Meteorologists...

      As the residents of such tornado-stricken states as Indiana, Alabama, and Kentucky continue to clean-up from last week’s twisters, weather forecasters are warning that this spring could continue to see active weather systems with yet more severe weather. The main driver: a warmer than normal spring, à la 70 degrees in New York City on Monday and 70 degrees in Chicago by Wednesday. By Friday, it is expected to be in the 70s in Sioux Falls, S.D., about 30 degrees above normal.
      In Pictures: Extreme weather 2012

      .As warm weather collides with cold fronts, the sharp temperature differential creates unstable weather conditions. At the same time, meteorologists say the Gulf of Mexico is slightly warmer than normal, providing the kind of moisture that can result in dangerous thunderstorms.

      “This year conditions are more conducive than normal for extreme weather,” says Joe Lundberg, senior meteorologist at AccuWeather.com in State College, Pa. “We are getting off to an early and nasty start.”

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
  • jackshin
  • coolplanet
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
    • jackshin:

      Yes, I hope he is too. Though I think he was at a basketball game last night. Who cares about people trying to pick up their lives after these early tornadoes? They're only ignorant bible thumpers anyway... so goes the mantra.

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
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