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Hi, this is meteorologist Steve Pelletieri and I am the weatherman. Thanks for checking into theweathermanpodcom on your Saturday. It's the first day in March 2025. It's the beginning of what we call meteorological springtime. That's because the sun rises earlier, it sets later, it's getting higher into the sky. We're quickly approaching the halfway mark between the low sun of wintertime and the high sun of summertime. That's going to be the equinox, somewhere around the 21st 22nd I'm not exactly sure when, but it will be happening, and that is the astronomical beginning of springtime, or what we call the vernal equinox. For today, though, it is meteorological spring, meaning that the sun will be warming things up quite dramatically Start out with some cool temperatures and you end up with some warmer conditions. I used to say a month starts off like a lion and ends like a lamb. Well, it's going to start off like a lamb today and then back to a lion tomorrow, as it gets sharply colder. For the northeast corridor, we do have a frontal system arriving during the daytime. That front will move through sometime between 1 and 4 pm, and there will be a few sprinkles of rain showers associated with it, and in western and northwestern Pennsylvania, central and northern New York State, there will be some snow showers and squalls for that first day and in those places it's going to seem like a lion because the colder air rushing in means business Temperatures during the daytime tomorrow in DC, baltimore, philly and New York probably in the 50s, boston in the 40s, but it looks like by Sunday highs will only range in the middle 30s, slowly, gradually starting to warm up a bit to near 40 as we head towards Monday and then Tuesday of next week and the possibility of a big rainstorm sometime around the middle of this upcoming week.

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In the meantime, if you are traveling on this Saturday, the weather situation up along the eastern seaboard basically dry. If you're driving back up from Florida or northward from Texas or from Arizona, you're looking at generally fair conditions right through the four corners, all the way up through most of Nebraska, kansas, into the Dakotas and into Minnesota and Iowa. Good weather there but it does look like some snow showers. If you're heading up into the UP of Michigan, that's because of that cold air heading down out of Saskatchewan and western sections of Ontario, canada, and that will move into the northeast and that's going to cause maybe some shower or rainy weather. If you're traveling up I-95 or I-81 up the Shenandoah Valley, up into Pennsylvania, past Harrisburg and then into the New York area. So basically, dry conditions. If you're driving, if you're flying, good weather in Charlotte and Atlanta. In Miami, no problems there, no problems In Texas, dallas-fort Worth and Houston all looking good.

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Chicago a bit on the cold side, but it'll be dry. Also dry in Minneapolis-St Paul, but very cold, and cold weather continues around North Texas. However, it will start to warm up. Out in Southern California there's a possibility of a few light rain showers in San Diego and LA, but nothing much, and then the rain will be moving into San Francisco and maybe some rain late in the day and at night in Portland and up in the Seattle area. Now it means a rainy Sunday, upcoming for those folks, but for the most part on this first day of March we're looking at a day of mild conditions transmissioning to wintry conditions, and that means very cold weather moving down out of the Great Lakes and mid-Atlantic and northeast. I'm your manager, steve Fletcher, and I am the weatherman. Hope you have a great day today and talk to you first thing on Sunday. Take care.