Forecast: More Winter To Come

By Greenhouse Grower staff|March 2, 2009

Joe Bastardi, expert senior meteorologist at AccuWeather.com, says March and April will be colder-than-normal months. By May, he says the weather will warm above normal across much of the country.

Bastardi isn’t ruling out the possibility of one or two storms hitting the mid-Atlantic before the end of winter. The West and Southern Plains have suffered from a lack of rainfall, but he’s optimistic the regions will get relief in April and May. The Southeast will most likely have a dry pattern much of spring, which could cause problems seen in recent springs.

Additionally, Bastardi predicts several warmups for the East Coast in the next few weeks. Those warmups will be temporary and deceptive, though. “Each warm surge we see in the next couple weeks won’t be the true end of winter,” he says.

Bastardi says the Midwest from Minnesota to Chicago and the Northeast from Boston to Youngstown, Ohio, have had the worst of winter so far due to a persistent storm track that has changed very little all winter.

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