Midday Forecast March 27, 2026

0:00Good afternoon. From the Fairbanks Museum in St. John'sbury, welcome to this midday addition of an eye on the sky. Much, much colder air coming in kind of spoiling our spring party from yesterday, topping out in the 50s and 60s with some sunshine. The exception yesterday, parts of southern Quebec stuck in the 30s as a coal front was stalled across Quebec. Now, at the same time, that same front settled southward last evening creating the period of rain showers and then behind it, dropping south, starting about midnight or so near the Vermont Quebec border and then continuing southward during the early morning hours, temperatures dropping throughout the morning. Finally, bottoming out about mid-morning or so, they're starting to recover, but they're not going to rise much during this afternoon. In spite of that sunshine, of course, that sun just about as strong as it is in early September. So, we've got a lot of strength to the sun, but the coal there that's coming in feeding on some gusty northwest winds will not allow the temperatures to rise much mostly in the 20s north,

1:03some low 30s in the warmer valleys, and mainly holding in the 30s across the south. There will be plenty of sunshine thanks to high pressure that's building in. The core of that high is actually to our west, centered over the Dakotas. There's an eastward extension through portions of Ontario and into southwest Quebec, and because it's extending eastward, there's a kind of a weak spot, and that's allowing some clouds and a few flurries to develop across parts of the western Great Lakes extending north into Ontario. That will be sliding through here tonight, mostly as just a few patches of clouds for northern sections. The area of high pressure will continue to slide mostly to our south and west, and that's going to allow a little bit more room for additional minor systems to come on through. The next one coming through later on Saturday into Saturday night, and with it, there may be a few flurries or brief snow showers across north eastern sections, mostly over the higher terrain. The cloud cover will keep temperatures from getting quite so cold. It will also shift to the coldest of the air off to our east so that by

2:08Sunday, with that weak system heading out, we'll see some breaks of sunshine and temperatures easing back into the upper 30s and 40s, coolest northeast and warmest to the south and west. That warming trend continues into Sunday night and Monday, and as that develops, we're going to see some slightly milder air pushing in that'll create a weak warm front to our north Sunday night, enough to produce some scattered localized snow showers, mainly for northern sections, but it will also introduce some milder airs we get into Monday. Right now, it looks like temperatures will ease up into the 40s, northeast, and probably back into the 50s, south and west, not very far actually from seasonal averages in late March. By Monday night into Tuesday, a somewhat stronger storm begins to move by mostly to our north, but it will increase the chances of some rain showers. There could be a few wet snowflakes late Monday night early Tuesday in the north, but it's going to change to rain showers as temperatures again climb into the 40s and 50s on Tuesday. Looking farther ahead into Wednesday, a stronger storm system passes to

3:12our north and ahead of it, drawing up some milder air. There's a question as to how far north that milder air will get. We're looking at probably some upper 40s and 50s, but with some brakes of sun and if that warmer air is a little stronger, we could see some 60s on the day Wednesday, first day of April, before some cooler air returns for the second half of next week. We'll keep all of that in mind as we take a look at the forecast details this afternoon featuring sunshine. It'll be a blustery cold afternoon with temperatures mainly steady or falling, 20s and low 30s north in the 30s in the south, northwest winds gusting up to 25 miles per hour, diminishing late in the day. Sky's will clear out tonight. There'll be some clouds across northern sections late tonight, lows 5 to 15 north near zero in the cold spots and in the teens to near 20 south. Saturday, periods of morning sun, mixing with more clouds in the afternoon, there could be a snow shower in the Adirondex. Highs will be on the cold side once again,

4:13ranging from the low 20s to low 30s north to south. Saturday night, periods of clouds not as cold and a few snow showers possible or the northern mountains, lows in the teens, east and north of I 89 near 10 in the cold spots, 20 to 25 west and south. Sunday, variable clouds and sun a bit milder, highs in the upper 30s to around 40 in the northeast, in the 40s south west, along with the developing southwest breeze in the afternoon. That's the weather story from the Fairbanks Museum in St. John'sbury. Make it a great afternoon. I'm meteorologist Mark Breene with an eye on the sky.