March 2026

[psv88]

12 minutes ago, uofmiami said:

Came in hard & fast. Gusted to 35mph in Syosset & saw close to 40mph at FRG earlier. 

Yea went from being ok to not ok very quickly! 50 and sun with light winds to 45 and windy. No thanks!

[Rjay]

12 minutes ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

Yeah I should have been here watching the models with you guys. I was dealing with some issues, back for good now.


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Welcome back man.  I was shocked when you didn't even come back for the blizzard.   

[Brian5671]

1 hour ago, psv88 said:

Yea went from being ok to not ok very quickly! 50 and sun with light winds to 45 and windy. No thanks!

was windy up here as well starting about 1-2pm-still got to the mid 50's though

[donsutherland1]

Tomorrow will be noticeably warmer. High temperatures will reach the lower and middle 60s in the New York City area. The warming trend will continue through the remainder of March with the temperature reaching the lower and middle 70s as March concludes on Monday.

April will also start with readings topping out in the lower to middle 70s, but a cold front will knock down temperatures shortly afterward. A wet period could follow.

The ENSO Region 1+2 anomaly was +1.6°C and the Region 3.4 anomaly was 0.0°C for the week centered around March 18. For the past six weeks, the ENSO Region 1+2 anomaly has averaged +1.15°C and the ENSO Region 3.4 anomaly has averaged -0.08°C. Neutral ENSO conditions will continue through at least mid-spring.

The SOI was -8.86 today. 

The preliminary Arctic Oscillation (AO) was +3.443 today. 

Based on sensitivity analysis applied to the latest guidance, there is an implied near 100% probability that New York City will have a warmer than normal March (1991-2020 normal). March will likely finish with a mean temperature near 46.5° (3.7° above normal). 

Supplemental Information: The projected mean would be 4.0° above the 1981-2010 normal monthly value. 

 

[SnoSki14]

On 3/28/2026 at 8:20 PM, JustinRP37 said:

That is how you know it is spring in the northeast. Same plot every year now. Usually mid-week teases you with beautiful weather before the weekend is frigid, windy, and wet. 

March has been very warm. A couple of cooler days doesn't negate that fact. 

[JustinRP37]

2 hours ago, SnoSki14 said:

March has been very warm. A couple of cooler days doesn't negate that fact. 

It has been, just not on the weekends haha. Like today going to the upper 60s low 70s for the next few days. Welcome back to the work week! 

[PhiEaglesfan712]

33 minutes ago, JustinRP37 said:

It has been, just not on the weekends haha. Like today going to the upper 60s low 70s for the next few days. Welcome back to the work week! 

The last 6 weekends (before this past one) were warm.

[SACRUS]

54 / 44 warmup and ridge upon us but clouds in the way of some of the hotter temps.  70s warmest spots today in/out of the clouds all week some showers too mainly wed eveing (falling from 80s to 40s in NJ),   Mid 70s to 80 in the warmest Tue/Wed.  Thu onshore flow chills it down to the 40s.  Wamring up Fri through Easter but again clouds.   Brunt of the rains around the ridge west of here.  Clear out by the 6th but cool back towards normal.

 

 

 

[jm1220]

2 minutes ago, SACRUS said:

54 / 44 warmup and ridge upon us but clouds in the way of some of the hotter temps.  70s warmest spots today in/out of the clouds all week some showers too mainly wed eveing (falling from 80s to 40s in NJ),   Mid 70s to 80 in the warmest Tue/Wed.  Thu onshore flow chills it down to the 40s.  Wamring up Fri through Easter but again clouds.   Brunt of the rains around the ridge west of here.  Clear out by the 6th but cool back towards normal.

 

 

 

We’ll be watching the backdoor front especially where I am and points east this week. Hopefully a few warm days this week without that or a blasting 40-45mph Ambrose Jet. Enjoy NJ and Hudson Valley. 

[SACRUS]

Records:

Highs:

EWR: 86 (1998)
NYC: 82 (1998)
LGA: 79 !(1998)
JFK: 72 (1979)


Lows:

EWR: 22 (1970)
NYC: 16 (1887)
LGA: 23 (1970)
JFK: 22 (1970)

Historical:

 

1805: New York's City's Battery Park was strewn with 24-inch snow rollers, from a ferocious storm between the March 26th and March 28th. Snow rollers are natural snowballs that are formed when winds blow over a snow-covered surface.

 

1823 - A great Northeast storm with hurricane force winds raged from Pennsylvania to Maine. The storm was most severe over New Jersey with high tides, uprooted trees, and heavy snow inland. (David Ludlum)

1848: On six reported occasions, the water flow over the American Falls has been entirely blocked by ice and ceased to fall. But only once has this happened on the much larger Horseshoe Falls. 

 

1899 - A storm which buried Ruby, CO, under 141 inches of snow came to an end. Ruby was an old abandoned mining town on the Elk Mountain Range in the Crested Butte area. (The Weather Channel)

1970: The day before, Easter was not very pleasant across northern New Jersey as up to 20 inches of snow and temperatures plunged from spring-like readings near 60° on March 26th to 2° on this date. Single digit and below zero readings occurred across parts of northern Pennsylvania. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1977 - Hartford, CT, hit 87 degrees to establish a record for the month of March. (The Weather Channel)

1987 - A storm spread heavy snow across the Ohio Valley and Lower Great Lakes Region. Cleveland OH received sixteen inches of snow in 24 hours, their second highest total of record. Winds gusting to 50 mph created 8 to 12 foot waves on Lake Huron. The storm also ushered unseasonably cold air into the south central and southeastern U.S., with nearly one hundred record lows reported in three days. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1988 - A winter-like storm developed in the Central Rockies. Snowfall totals in Utah ranged up to 15 inches at the Brian Head Ski Resort, and winds in Arizona gusted to 59 mph at Show Low. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1989 - Thunderstorms developing along and ahead of a slow moving cold front produced large hail and damaging winds at more than fifty locations across the southeast quarter of the nation, and spawned a tornado which injured eleven persons at Northhampton NC. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1990 - Low pressure produced heavy snow in central Maine and northern New Hampshire, with up to eight inches reported in Maine. A slow moving Pacific storm system produced 18 to 36 inches of snow in the southwestern mountains of Colorado in three days. Heavier snowfall totals included 31 inches at Wolf Creek Pass and 27 inches at the Monarch Ski Area. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)


1991: Seventeen tornadoes occurred during the month in Oklahoma, setting an all time record. Oklahoma averages about four tornadoes during the month of March. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1993: This apparently was not “soft” hail; good thing nobody’s head was in the way. Hail to the size of baseballs fell from Braxton to D’lo, MS. A number of mobile homes were “punctured” by the hail. (Ref. Weather Guide Calendar with Phenomenal Weather Events 2012 Accord Pub. 2011, USA)
 

2003: Mar. 30th: A late season snowfall left 1 to 3 inches of accumulation west of a line from Charlottesville to Baltimore City. Above 1500 feet where nearly all of the falling snow was able to accumulate, 4 to 8 inches of snow was reported, with isolated locations above 3000 feet reporting up to 12 inches. The heaviest snowfall falls in the eastern West Virginia mountains, with 16.5 inches at Davis. Blacksburg, Virginia, reported 11 inches. A foot or more fell at Boone and West Jefferson in North Carolina.
(Ref. WxDoctor)

2005: In Colorado, near blizzard conditions occurred east and southeast of Denver during the overnight as winds sustained winds up to 35 mph with gusts to 50 mph produced blowing snow and dropped visibilities at times to near zero. Considerable drifting of 2 to 4 feet was also reported. Snowfall totals included: 8 inches near Castle Rock, 7 inches near Sedalia and 6 inches near Parker but Denver only reported 0.3 inches with gusty winds. Further north, the same storm system triggered numerous small thunderstorms, including a few brief tornadoes from east of Mason City, IA through Mitchell County, Iowa to near the Minnesota-Iowa state line. This area was near the center of low pressure and nearby cold/warm fronts that served as a 'triple point' to focus severe weather development. Known tornado touchdowns (local time) included: 6 miles west of Osage, IA at 2:04 pm, NW side of Stacyville, IA at 2:13 pm, and on the state line south of Adams, MN (Mower/Mitchell County) at 2:18 pm. All damage was rated F0. Wind damage also occurred in southeast Minnesota, east and northeast of Rochester, MN from wind speeds of 60-70 mph. Poseyville in extreme southwestern Indiana had a wind gust of 69 mph. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

[JustinRP37]

20 minutes ago, PhiEaglesfan712 said:

The last 6 weekends (before this past one) were warm.

It wasn't spring... That was winter. And the 14th/15th were not warm up here (+1.7 and -2.1), so average weekend. I loved it, skiing all day in the Catskills where it was snowing. But now that we are in spring, we will have the cold, wet weekend pattern because Little League is starting up 

[SACRUS]

Weekend


Fri 3/27

EWR: 65 / 41 (+7)
NYC: 65 / 41 (+7)

Sat 3/28

EWR: 45 / 31 (-8)
NYC: 44  31 (-9)

Sun 3/29

EWR: 58 / 32 (-2)
NYC: 54 / 34 (-3)

[psv88]

Models were WAY too cold in the long term. What was supposed to be a cold end of the week and weekend will end up in the 60s. 

[Brian5671]

22 minutes ago, psv88 said:

Models were WAY too cold in the long term. What was supposed to be a cold end of the week and weekend will end up in the 60s. 

April may end up being a month long inferno.   No blocking appears to be in the cards

[FPizz]

5 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

April may end up being a month long inferno.   No blocking appears to be in the cards

Hope so.  Would be nice to have some sunny warm weekends and keep any rain for the weekdays.