An upcoming stretch of unseasonably warm temperatures will be followed by the potential for a pre-Valentine’s Day winter storm early next week.
“It may be time to dust off your snow shovels as a flip in the weather pattern could send a snowstorm over parts of the Midwest and Northeast just days after a spell of unusual warmth,” according to AccuWeather.com.
The system could start a “back to reality” shift to a weather pattern more typical of February.
“While the January thaw and break from the stormy pattern extended into early February, there is going to be a change in the pattern with a potentially impactful storm coming swinging across the Midwest and Northeastern states from Monday to Tuesday,” said AccuWeather Meteorologist Dean DeVore.
The mercury will reach the mid-40s throughout the region on Thursday, Feb. 8, and climb to around 50 degrees farther south with mostly sunny skies and calmer winds, according to the National Weather Service.
The stretch of sunny days that started in the first weekend of February following a month of January marked by cloudy skies will end overnight Thursday into Friday, Feb. 9.