Forecasters warn of record high temperatures for Halloween in the Northeast

Much of the Northeast is forecast to experience summer-like weather by Halloween.

As ghosts and goblins prepare to go trick-or-treating on Thursday, temperatures are expected to be more like Labor Day than All Hallows’ Eve as the fall heat wave continues across the US.

Potential high temperature records on the last day of October are forecast to be broken in several cities in the Northeast.

Temperatures in New York could reach 80 degrees on Thursday, setting a new record for the day. Records are also expected to fall in Philadelphia, Boston, Pittsburgh, Washington, D.C., as those cities are also expected to exceed the 80-degree mark.

Even in the far Northeast, Halloween will be warm, with temperatures of up to 76 degrees forecast in Burlington, Vermont, and Bangor, Maine. To the south, temperatures could reach 84 degrees in Charleston, South Carolina, while temperatures in Raleigh, North Carolina are forecast to reach 81 degrees.

Temperatures in the Northeast are forecast to be about 30 degrees warmer than last year’s Halloween, when temperatures were below 50 degrees in New York, Philadelphia and Boston.

However, the warm weather will not last long.

A strong cold front is expected to move through the Northeast on Friday afternoon, bringing an end to record-breaking heat.

During the New York City Marathon on Sunday, the daily high temperature will be 57 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.

The cold front is expected to bring cold temperatures, rain and snow to parts of the Great Lakes and upper Midwest. Winter weather advisories issued for Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan include a chance of significant snow.

Elsewhere in the country, the cold front responsible for severe weather from Oklahoma to Illinois on Wednesday is forecast to move east, producing strong to severe storms from west Texas to Little Rock, Arkansas, and Memphis, Tennessee, all the way to Louisville, Kentucky . and Cincinnati, Ohio.

People in the North East were whipping out T-shirts and shorts amid record breaking records. high temperatures this weekSeveral inches of snow covered the tops of the mountains of the Hawaiian Islands.

As firefighters in Colorado battled wildfires and meteorologists warned of fire danger, the high elevations of Hawaii’s Big Island resembled the Rocky Mountains in winter.

Several inches of snow blanketed the peaks of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, the highest peaks in Hawaii and part of the state’s Volcanoes National Park.

“Due to winter weather conditions, the summit is currently closed to both day and night use, and Mauna Loa Summit Hut permits are temporarily suspended,” the statement said. Volcanoes National Park This is stated in a message on her Facebook page.

Meanwhile, in the Rockies, an approaching major storm system is expected to bring up to a foot of fresh snow. But elsewhere in Colorado, firefighters were dealing with a wildfire that investigators suspect is a “man-made” blaze that had spread to 166 acres near the town of Divide and was 80% contained Wednesday.

The winter weather expected in the Rockies was countered by record temperatures across much of the country this week, from Detroit, where it hit 77 degrees on Wednesday, to Laredo, Texas, where temperatures were expected to reach 94 degrees. setting a daily record.