March 17, 2025 Monday Weather Update
Winter returns to Plains and Great Lakes
March 2025 was the 7th-warmest March in the 132-year national record (1895–2026), at 46.8°F against a 1991–2020 normal of 43.6°F (+3.3°F).
March 2025 was the 57th-driest March in the 132-year national record (1895–2026), at 2.4in against a 1991–2020 normal of 2.5in (-0.1in).
NOAA/NCEI Climate at a Glance, contiguous United States. This is the observed record for the month, not a score of anything said in this piece — the forecast ledger begins 2026-08-17 and cannot reach earlier posts.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! The National Hurricane Center put up a Lemon drop on the Tropical Weather Outlook to remind us that Hurricane Season is about 10-weeks away. However, this non-tropical low is not expected to reach the technical definition of a subtropical or tropical cyclone. However, it will have some precipitation, winds, and look like a decent storm system on satellite imagery until it moves northward and merges with a frontal boundary.
The storm is typical of subtropical latitude cut-off lows that develop circulations and sometimes transition into named storms. It’s not unheard of, just infrequent!
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