MANCHESTER, NH – The mercury has found its spring-like groove, but the return to flip-flop weather is fleeting.
According to the National Weather Service, a wicked wind from the west means a return to galoshes.
“Things are going to cool off quickly tonight, and it will be 20-30 degrees cooler on Wednesday,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Derek Schroeter, from his outpost in Gray, Maine.
“Then a system will be moving in from the west tomorrow night into Thursday and we’ll have a mix of snow and sleet to start,” Schroeter said.
That will turn to freezing rain overnight Wednesday into Thursday, and by 10 a.m. Thursday, or thereabout, it will be all rain with a high of about 38 degrees.
This week’s warmer temps are part of an overall West Coast weather pattern that created a trough of warm air that moved into a ridge on the East Coast, but alas, it’s still February in New Hampshire.
A second weather system will follow right behind the first one, bringing more rain, and colder temperatures, Schroeter said.
Below is a clickable snapshot of the 10-day weather forecast, from the Weather Underground.
