Boise and surrounding cities could break a record Tuesday, but keep a rain slicker handy for the storm moving in Wednesday night.
“Today we’re going for a high of 71, the record high for today is 73 in Boise, so it’s going to be close,” says National Weather Service meteorologist Dave Groenert.
Normally this time of year would see highs around 53 degrees.
Groenert says you can thank the high pressure system that’s moving over our region. “A trough in the East has translated into a ridge in the West and so while the East Coast has been getting the cold weather we’ve been kind of stuck in the opposite extreme,” Groenert says, “we’ve warmed up.”
Several cities could see near-record temperatures Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service. Caldwell could hit 70, right below its record high of 71. Fairfield could hit 58, one degree below it's record of 59. And Idaho City is forecast to hit 69, beating its record high of 67 degrees, set in 1934.
But Wednesday will be cooler. “We do have a storm that’s moving into the Pacific Northwest tomorrow,” says Groenert “That’s going to bring chance of rain, high elevation snow, snow levels around 7,000 feet or so.”
The good news is it will be a quick moving system, so by Thursday morning it will clear out. Groenert says not much rain is expected.
Once the storm leaves, we head back to nice weather. “We get right back into that high pressure,” says Groenert, “that’s given us the warmth today and that’s going to translate into highs back toward 70 again for Friday and Saturday.”
Groenert can’t be specific, but says the forecast models for the next two weeks point to the above normal temperatures sticking around through most of March. There is another chance of rain early next week.
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