Taste of Spring to Greet Pittsburgh This Week

By Alex Sosnowski, AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist

March 7,2015; 10:12PM,EST

 

 

Pittsburgh will welcome a rebound in temperatures for the first half of the new week as winter finally releases its grip.
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.

Temperatures will progressively rise through the 40s Sunday into Tuesday, then will crack the 50-degree mark on Wednesday for the first time since mid-January.
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 graze the Pittsburgh area around Tuesday, but not enough rain to cause flooding is expected to fall.
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.