Folks in the frigid Northeast will finally get a reprieve from the worst of the bitter cold, as soon as Tuesday, Feb. 10, forecasters said.
"The last blast of Arctic air in the long train of cold waves will cycle through the Northeast into Monday (Feb. 9)," said AccuWeather senior meteorologist Alex Sosnowski in an online forecast. "However, after that, warmer air already building in the West and High Plains will move east."
In an online forecast discussion, the National Weather Service said "a moderating trend is expected through midweek for the eastern U.S., following a period of much colder weather, and a particularly brutal weekend for the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic."
"Well-above average temperatures will spread from the Mississippi Valley/Southeast Monday (Feb. 9) into much of the Great Lakes/Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic Tuesday (Feb. 10), while New England at least warms close to average," the weather service said in an online forecast.
Forecast highs by Tuesday, Feb. 10 range from the 20s and 30s for New England, 30s and 40s for the Great Lakes and northern Mid-Atlantic, 40s and 50s from the Middle Mississippi Valley east through the Ohio Valley to the southern Mid-Atlantic, and 60s and 70s in the Lower Mississippi Valley/Southeast, the weather service said.
