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Winter respite

Meteorologist: Back to reality is ‘basically going to be the story for Saturday afternoon’

Times Observer photo by Josh Cotton Unseasonable weather sent the mercury soaring to 73 degrees in Warren on Friday. More typical temperatures return this weekend as a cold front arrives from the Midwest.

This weekend should usher in a return to weather reality for residents of northwestern Pennsylvania.

The unseasonably pleasant weather of the past several days is about to be run off by a cold front.

“Reality (for late February) is around 40 for a high and 20 for a low,” National Weather Service Meteorologist Paul Head said Friday. “That’s basically going to be the story for Saturday afternoon.”

“We’ve had a really warm high-pressure system sitting along the east coast,” Head said. “It’s been pumping warm air up from the gulf states.”

“It’s in the 60s in February,” he said.

“There’s a really strong cold front rolling through the Chicago area” Friday afternoon, he said. “That’ll be us” Saturday.

The day should start out more like the past few days than the next few with possible temperatures in the 50s.

“You’ll probably see the front hit between 9 and 10 a.m.,” Head said. That front should drive the low to about 20.

There could be some snow and a high in the mid-30s on Sunday. For Monday, Head forecasts cloudy and cool, maybe reaching back to 40, with possible rain following Tuesday evening or Wednesday.

“People that have been hearing the geese flying north, don’t count on spring being here,” Head said. “There is probably going to be a plowable snow in the month of March.”

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