Philadelphia, PA – Halloween is less than two weeks away, and families across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland may have some encouraging news. Early federal weather projections favor warmer-than-normal conditions heading into Saturday, Oct. 31, raising hopes for a comfortable evening of trick-or-treating.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center, its 8-14 day outlook issued Saturday, Oct. 17, favors above-normal temperatures across much of the Mid-Atlantic from Sunday, Oct. 25, through Saturday, Oct. 31.
The warming trend is part of a much larger pattern stretching from the central United States through the Great Lakes and into the East Coast, with some of the strongest above-normal temperature signals centered over the Midwest…