Spring Changes to Sneak Up On Northeasterners Next Week

By , Meteorologist
Mar 18, 2010; 4:56 AM ET
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While most of the residents and visitors of the Northeast are enjoying delightfully sunny and mild weather, reality that it is spring will set in over the weekend and early next week. Don't put your heavier jackets away just yet!

From southern New England through the mid-Atlantic, highs will be in the 60s and 70s, both today and Friday. It will be great weather for enjoying golf or a hike.

However, it is spring, and the beautiful weather will not hold for too long. We will experience the typical roller coaster ride of temperatures of spring by Monday.

Some people may be caught off guard as colder air will return behind a weekend storm that delivers rain, storms, and even a bit of snow. Highs will drop by 10-20 degrees on Monday (mostly reaching into the 40s and 50s across the mid-Atlantic and southern New England), and people will want to reach for heavier jackets again.

The storm that will usher in colder air to the Northeast will first trigger storms and snow in the Plains. Some areas like Oklahoma City could first get hit by locally strong storms on Friday, before the temperature plummets and snow mixes in and falls at night.

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