By Alex Sosnowski, AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist
March 7,2015; 10:10PM,EST
Taste of Spring to Greet DC, Baltimore This Week
The more typical March weather will allow people to get outdoors and some to catch up on shopping.
In the wake of the recent snowstorm and cold nights, temperatures will rebound to seasonable levels for the first half of the upcoming week.
The pattern change will lock out invasions of arctic air.
Highs are forecast to average in the 50s starting on Sunday.
With daytime highs well above freezing and nights near or below freezing, the existing snow cover will gradually melt.
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However, until all of the piles of snow are gone, motorists and pedestrians should be on the lookout for patchy black ice. Runoff created during the daylight hours will tend to freeze up during the evening.
Area rivers will have to be watched for possible ice jams with the upcoming milder weather forecast. However, the freeze and thaw cycles will not create rapid runoff initially.
A storm with rain is forecast to pass through the mid-Atlantic around Tuesday. Since heavy rain is not expected, the issue that could arise is for an increase in standing water where snow mounds are covering storm drains.
A second storm to emerge from the Gulf of Mexico will have to be monitored for potential flooding rain, snow and even ice implications in the Northeast next weekend.
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