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Mother's Day weekend will be colder than Christmas in these 6 US cities

By Brian Lada, AccuWeather meteorologist and senior content editor

Published May 7, 2020 6:28 PM EDT

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Dutch Daffodils and Tulips in Holland created a message in the Netherlands for tourists who won’t see the tulips this year due to coronavirus-related closures.

A new coat may be the perfect Mother’s Day gift this year as temperatures in several major cities across the United States will dip lower than those that were recorded on Christmas Day.

Despite some stay-at-home orders being lifted across the country, people that are able to travel this weekend to pay mom a visit may end up spending the day inside to avoid the unseasonable chill that is gripping the eastern U.S.

A weather pattern more typical of winter has set up over part of the eastern U.S., unleashing cold air from Maine to Minnesota and southward into Missouri, and the March-like pattern will persist through Mother’s Day weekend.

"A lobe of the polar vortex will spin southward and loop around the Great Lakes and northeastern United States into early this week before shifting farther northwest over Canada toward the middle of May," Paul Pastelok, AccuWeather's top long-range forecaster, said.

Temperatures will fail to reach levels achieved on Christmas Day in 2019 in many cities across the Midwest due to this late-season cold spell. Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Kansas City and Cincinnati are just a few cities that are forecast to experience temperatures as much as 5 to 10 degrees lower on Mother’s Day than last Christmas.

People who live in New England and the mid-Atlantic won’t feel weather quite as cold as it was during the last full week of December, however, wintry weather made an appearance on Mother’s Day weekend.

Across some parts of the interior Northeast, people woke up to snow covering the ground on Saturday morning after a March-like storm tracked over the region. Some unusually late-season lake-effect snow showers occurred on Saturday afternoon as well.

A few wet snowflakes may also fall over part of the Great Lakes on Sunday as another storm begins to take shape over the region.

Tulips are topped with snow in Omaha, Neb., Thursday, May 2, 2013, after a spring storm dumped slushy snow on parts of eastern Nebraska and western and north-central Iowa. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Some of the record-challenging cold may penetrate parts of the Southeast during the first half of the weekend before temperatures rebound just in time for Mother’s Day.

In Atlanta, the temperature on Saturday hit 66 F, just one degree warmer than they were on Christmas Day when the mercury hit 65 F. By Sunday, highs will jump into the lower 70s, making it much more comfortable to spend some time outside with mom.

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Tranquil weather will be a treat for moms who live in the Southeast, but mothers celebrating in Florida may want to keep an umbrella or raincoat nearby as showers and thunderstorms are expected to soak the Sunshine State.

"People accustomed to spending time outdoors on Mother's Day in the Florida Peninsula may want to consider alternative plans or perhaps celebrate outdoor activities on Saturday instead as Sunday could be stormy and quite cool and wet," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski said.

This rain will be a double-edged sword: disruptive to some but beneficial to others. Drought conditions have been slowly expanding across Florida, especially south of Lake Okeechobee, and the Mother’s Day rain will help to ease drought concerns.

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As parts of the eastern U.S. cope with a wintry chill, the western U.S. will bake in summerlike heat. In fact, some spots will be hotter than they were last year on Independence Day.

Areas along the Interstate 5 corridor from Seattle through Portland and Medford, Oregon, are forecast to reach the mid- to upper 80s on Sunday, making it hotter than it was during July Fourth celebrations in 2019. Boise, Idaho, is also projected to be hotter on Sunday than it was on July 4, 2019, when temperatures topped out at 82 F.

“Farther south, temperatures over California will be more typical of those in the middle to late June,” Sosnowski said. “Temperatures will be within a few degrees of 70 along the immediate coast with highs well into the 80s to near 90 inland.”

Summer warmth will also persist across the interior Southwest, such as Las Vegas and Phoenix, but high temperatures will fall short of record levels.

Those planning to head up to the mountains and spend some time in the outdoors while social distancing should be sure to not only bring enough water and sunscreen but also keep an eye on the weather radar.

“A weak disturbance may allow a few thunderstorms to fire off during the afternoon in parts of Arizona, New Mexico and southwestern Colorado,” Sosnowski added.

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