The warmer-than-usual March temperatures in the Fresno area will begin to cool down early next week, giving the Valley some respite from record-setting temperatures.
Emily Wilson, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Hanford, said temperatures will slightly dip starting Tuesday before warming up again over the following weekend.
Next Tuesday, a storm system is anticipated to reach the Central Valley. This is currently expected to bring temperatures down into the low 70s — more than 10 degrees cooler than the forecast for the day prior.
This late-March cool-down is a welcome shift from the warm temperatures Fresnans experienced earlier in the month.
The highest temperature Fresno has experienced this month, so far, was 93 degrees, which broke the city’s previous all-time record for the month of March. The previous record of 91 degrees was set in March 2015, Wilson said.
It’s too early to tell exactly how long the cool-down period will last and when temperatures will spike back up.