Tuesday, June 2, 2015

A Big Cooldown Arrived to Start June

Linda Lam
Published: June 2,2015





 
A big cooldown has spread from the Midwest to the Northeast over the last few days. While the Midwest will see temperatures begin to rebound on Tuesday, the cool air will linger in the Northeast for another day.
(MAPS: Current Conditions)
Let's examine the chilly details for the Northeast and Midwest below.

Northeast Temperature Drop


Forecast Highs














Cooler temperatures moved into western New York and northern New England on Sunday. The cool air mass has now engulfed much of New England and parts of the I-95 corridor to start the week.
High temperatures will be 10 to 20 degrees below average instead of 10 to 20 degrees above average like we saw much of this past week.
Temperatures on Monday afternoon were only in the 40s and 50s across parts of New England, New York and western Pennsylvania. This includes New York City where it was in middle 50s. New York City saw their high of 58 degrees overnight and this tied their record cold high temperature for June 1.
Record cold high temperatures were set on Monday across southern New England, including Boston (49 degrees), Providence (53 degrees), Hartford (53 degrees) and Worcester (48 degrees). The high of 49 degrees in Boston also tied the coldest high temperature for June (set on June 5, 1945).
This is quite a change from the warmth those two locations saw this past weekend. Boston's high on Saturday was in upper 80s, which is more than 30 degrees warmer than Monday. The Big Apple has seen a drop of about 30 degrees from Sunday's high of 87 degrees.
On Tuesday, it will remain cooler-than-average across much of the Northeast. Highs in the 40s and 50s are once again likely in New England. Highs in the 60s are expected in Philadelphia and the thermometer may struggle to reach 60 in New York City.
(FORECAST: Philadelphia | Buffalo | Pittsburgh)

Cooler Midwest and Plains


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Noticeably cooler temperatures were felt in the Upper Midwest and Plains Saturday with highs generally in the 50s and 60s in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
On Sunday morning locations as far south as northern Illinois, including Chicago, woke up to wind chills in the 30s. The actual air temperature dipped to the freezing mark (32 degrees) in a few spots across northern Wisconsin and northern Minnesota.
(FORECAST: Minneapolis | St. Louis | Detroit)
Sunday's highs didn't get out of the 50s in Chicago and Detroit. Marquette, Michigan failed to rise out of the 40s for the final day of May.
Cooler-than-average temperatures lingered in the Great Lakes, Ohio Valley and mid-Mississippi Valley on Monday, with temperatures Monday afternoon mostly in the 50s and 60s.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin only reached 54 degrees on Monday which is the coldest high temperature for June 1 since 1980.
(MAPS: 10-day Forecast)
A slow warm-up back to more typical early June levels is anticipated midweek as an upper-level ridge begins to build into the Midwest.
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