The Triangle could see 80+ temps this week. Welcome to Fool’s Spring
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- Temperatures likely reach low 80s Friday and Saturday across the Triangle.
- Warm ridge off southeast coast drives readings over 20 degrees above normal.
- But don’t ditch the coats. Cold weather may still be in our future.
Grab the sunglasses and sunscreen, it’s getting warm.
Temperatures could reach the low 80s on Friday, March 6, and Saturday, March 7, across the Triangle, according to the National Weather Service and area television stations. There’s a chance for rain showers or storm Sunday night leading into Monday, but temperatures should remain high into early next week.
“We have just a really anomalous ridge of high pressure that’s going to be parking itself off the southeast US coast starting today, but really kind of taking hold Friday through the weekend,” said Andrew Kren, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said. “And that’s going to make for some very warm temperatures.”
Weekend forecast
The record high for Friday is 82 set in 1967 and the forecasts come within two degrees of the record high, and about four or five degrees of the record high for Saturday, he said. The Triangle might also see record minimum temperatures. The forecasted low for Sunday morning is 63 degrees which would break the record low minimum of 60 degrees from 1946.
“So largely just going to stay very warm through the weekend with temperatures over 20 degrees normal,” Kren said.
Will cold temps return?
But don’t ditch the coats and sweaters just yet. The Triangle had a small, small chance of a wintry mix earlier this week, and cold weather is likely not through with us yet.
“You can get the nice temperatures one day, but then a strong cold front settles through and it’s cloudy, rainy, drizzly or even some form of wintry mix,” said Aaron Swiggett, a National Weather Service meteorologist, in a previous interview.
Whether you want to call it “Fool’s Spring” or “Spring of Deception” we’re in the middle of one of North Carolina’s 12 seasons.
And, please, leave the garden hoe and trowel alone for now.
“We still can go below freezing into early, early April,” Kren said. “So I think people don’t want to let their guard down if they have started on their gardens, that’s for sure.”
