March 2026 - Winter or Spring?

[NCHighCountryWX]

HRRR doing HRRR things

 

[YetAnotherRDUGuy]

RDU sensor up to 89.1, the record for earliest 90 could fall

I just looked up the earliest 90 at RDU and somehow it's Mar 12 1990. Was not expecting that.

 

[Rain Cold]

Stupid morganton

This wind is killing me

 

[CNCsnwfan1210]

The only things holding this day back from being the equivalent of a July day are 70+ degree dewpoints and no wind


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By process of rounding… made it to 90 today (89.6)


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[jackendrickwx]

Made it to 86 today here. 85 right now and even with the breeze I find this a bit too warm for my liking. I’m sure this is a record high once more

 

[RAN]

RDU hit 89.6F around 4 today. Do they round that up to 90F in climate records? If so thats the earliest 90 we have gotten

 

[BullCityWx]

I wonder if we’ve ever hit 90 and had a trace of snow on the next day.

We’ve got a shot at it

 

[Downeastnc]

PGV hit 90 so this is the second earliest on record with Mar 9th being the earliest...last year the first 90 at PGV was June 7th lol.

 

[JHS]

Made it to 86 today here. 85 right now and even with the breeze I find this a bit too warm for my liking. I’m sure this is a record high once more

This back and forth is beginning to remind me of 1989. That was a very wild February through early May, capped off with a tornado outbreak and a May freeze.

 

[SD]

Temps should be done to the tenth and not rounded to whole numbers, fight me

 

[BIG FROSTY]

86.7 for a high

 

[weather bubba]

RDU hit 89.6F around 4 today. Do they round that up to 90F in climate records? If so thats the earliest 90 we have gotten
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If KRDU does round that temperature up, this will break the first ninety degree day of the year record by one day.

 

[superjames1992]

It looks like 18z NAM / GFS backed off a little for tomorrow's "snow chances" across N NC / VA. Still curious if we could see some wet flakes fly for the border counties tomorrow, though. The RGEM has nothing and isn't particularly close, so you figure it's probably going to be right.

 

[BullCityWx]

WRALs future cast also shows a changeover

 

[GaWx]

I didn’t check my thermometer again during the heat of the day. But KSAV had a record high of 91, easily beating the old record of 87! KSVN also hit 91. Summer’s here!

KATL tied its record high of 82.

 

[Nomanslandva]

HRRR has backed off some, but I am still a little curious about the flakes chance tomorrow. To go from mid 80s to seeing flakes 18 hours later would be pretty wild if it happens. NAM is not real excited about it here but looked better east. pretty wild if someone sees it happen!

 

[YetAnotherRDUGuy]

RDU hit 89.6F around 4 today. Do they round that up to 90F in climate records? If so thats the earliest 90 we have gotten
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That's a good question. Apparently they didn't round up and kept the official high at 89.


I'm not sure the threshold requiring a 90 high. Maybe it's 90.0? If we hit 89.9, would they have rounded up? I dunno.

 

[SD]

 

[Iceagewhereartthou]

Looks like most places will reach their high for tomorrow just after midnight. Currently, 10 pm temps are 74 at GSP, 78 at CLT and RDU, and 80 at CAE. These current temps would be well above average highs but they are unbelievable for 10pm. With only 2 hours of cooling to go, tomorrow's highs will officially still be way above average.

 

[NBAcentel]

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If we can advect some moisture into that effectively with the cyclonic flow aloft that eventually becomes a severe printer. The EML advection from the C/SE ridge is there

 

[dsaur]

KSAV had a torchy 89 high today, which missed the 1974 record by only 2. What happened to spring? None this year?

It's got to have something to do with Blarney and the blood moon, Clovis points, Otzi and the plastic bits found in the guts of critters from 7 miles down. It just ain't right.

 

[Brent]

Ah remember when it used to snow in March