Brief warmup to bring 50-degree temperature swing in northeastern US

By Renee Duff, AccuWeather meteorologist

March 7,2017, 12:48:21AM,EST

 Following one of the coldest days so far this winter, warmth will briefly rebound in the northeastern United States early this week.

Daytime temperatures will average 20 to 30 degrees Fahrenheit higher through Tuesday when compared to the start of the weekend. The I-95 corridor will be just as warm, if not warmer, on Wednesday.
The difference could reach upwards of 50 degrees when comparing the lowest temperature over the weekend and the highest temperature forecast into Wednesday.

The warmup will ensue as winds turn southwesterly ahead of an approaching cold front, according to AccuWeather Meteorologist Max Vido.
"As showers accompanying the advancing warmth, stubborn cold can lead to a brief period of icy mix and slick travel in western and northern New England and upstate New York into Tuesday morning," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Kristina Pydynowski.
"Due to the recent cold, road surfaces may stay icy for a couple of hours after temperatures rise above freezing."
The door will be opened for temperatures to return to the 50s in Boston and Syracuse, New York; 60s in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Washington, D.C.; and 70s in Richmond, Virginia and Raleigh, North Carolina.
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The warmup will not be quite as extreme as the temperature swings in recent weeks, when 70s were felt as far north as Boston and Albany, New York.
Although winter coats, hats and gloves that were taken out of the closet this weekend will not be needed early this week, residents will want to keep umbrellas handy.
Showers will dampen many communities on Tuesday before gusty rain showers march along the front from west to east on Tuesday afternoon and night.

"The front will not bring a dramatic drop in temperatures in its wake. In fact, cooler air will lag behind enough that Wednesday could be just as warm, if not warmer than than Tuesday, along the I-95 corridor," Pydynowski said.
Gusty winds of 40-50 mph will whip the Great Lakes and central Appalachians on Wednesday. There can be locally higher gusts, especially at downwind lakeshore communities and in the higher terrain.
Highs in the 30s and 40s will return to New England and the interior Northeast by Thursday and Friday. Blustery winds that could lead sporadic power outages will also howl on Thursday.
The chill will fail to penetrate into the mid-Atlantic until Friday, where a battleground between springlike temperatures to the south and bitterly cold air to the north is likely to set up.

This battle zone is expected set the stage for multiple snow events in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast late this week and into next week.
The cold push will not be a repeat of the harsh weekend chill.
Saturday ranked as one of the top-five coldest days of the winter in a handful of cities, including New York City, Buffalo and Syracuse, New York; Boston; Burlington, Vermont; and Caribou, Bangor and Portland, Maine.
In Syracuse and Burlington, Saturday marked the coldest day so far this winter with highs of 16 and 10 respectively. The previous lowest temperature up to this point was 18 in Syracuse on Jan. 8 and 13 in Burlington on Feb. 10.