Winter may have final, punishing act for Lower 48 in mid-March.
A sharp blast of cold is expected to invade the eastern two-thirds of the nation between March 10 and 14.
Whether you live in Wichita, Kansas, or Washington, D.C., don’t put away your winter coats. Although the forecast into early next week is mostly springlike, consecutive cold fronts are set to surge across the Lower 48 in the next one to two weeks.
The first, gentler front will dive into the Central States this weekend before pushing off the East Coast by Wednesday. But the more bitter Arctic blast is projected to drop into north central U.S. in about seven days, probably reaching the East Coast around the weekend of March 12-13.
The cold will come as somewhat of a shock as record warmth is predicted to precede the onset of the chillier weather pattern in a number of areas this weekend into early next week.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/03/03/march-cold-blast-us-arctic/?