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Weather Journal: Spring Returns on Friday and the Weekend

ByRebecca Fowler New York’s historic Tavern on the Green restaurant in Central Park is pictured on Thursday, as the restaurant prepares to reopen after a head-to-toe makeover.
Craig Warga for The Wall Street Journal

Spring temperatures made a hasty exit from Greater New York earlier this week, but warm, sunny weather returns just in time for the weekend.

Friday will again be chilly, but this should be the last in the stretch of days with temperatures that are significantly below normal. The area of weak high pressure remains over the region on throughout Friday, keeping skies partly sunny for the first half of the day. Clouds will increase during the afternoon as a shortwave, or disturbance in the upper atmosphere, passes north of the region, but no rain is expected. Winds shift to a southerly flow keeping coastal areas cooler, highs will be in the upper 40s and lower 50s near the shore, and in the middle 50s elsewhere. Friday night stays cloudy, but dry, with lows in the 30s and 40s.

Saturday is likely to be the sunniest and warmest day of the weekend. Clouds clear and skies brighten, thanks to an area of Canadian high pressure moving slowly across the region. In the afternoon, winds from the northwest at 10 to 15 miles an hour will boost temperatures into the lower and middle 60s.

Mild, dry weather is set to continue on Sunday. High pressure moves off the coast during the day, causing afternoon high temperatures to stay in the 50s along the coast and in the 60s north and west of New York City.

Weather in the tri-state area is forecast to stay sunny and calm through the first part of next week. The region should see abundant sunshine through Thursday; light rain showers are possible on Tuesday and are forecast to settle in on Friday.

Your Weather Journal weekend forecast roundup:

Saturday/Sunday highs for Greater New York:

Rebecca Fowler is a science writer at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
