{"id":152595,"date":"2026-03-30T19:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/152595\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:43:08","slug":"march-heading-out-on-a-positive-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/152595\/","title":{"rendered":"March heading out on a positive note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a chilly weekend, Monday provided a nice spring rebound, with the temperature exceeding 70 degrees at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton International Airport \u2014 the fourth day that\u2019s happened this month. Overall, March has been slightly warmer than usual: Through Sunday, the average temperature was 41.5 degrees, compared to the normal average of 37.9, according to the National Weather Service. It has also been a wet month, with 5.11 inches of precipitation \u2014 about twice the norm of 2.58. March will depart with another warm day Tuesday, when the high should reach 75, according to AccuWeather. Temperatures will trend downward after that before climbing back into the 70s on Friday and Saturday. There\u2019s at least a 50% chance of showers every day through the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Community members outside of the Lackawanna County Courthouse in downtown Scranton on Monday, March 30, 2026. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"3000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/STT-L-WEATHER-033026-01.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1593455\" \/>Community members outside of the Lackawanna County Courthouse in downtown Scranton on Monday, March 30, 2026. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"A squirrel at Nay Aug Park in Scranton on Monday, March 30, 2026. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"2000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/STT-L-WEATHER-033026-03.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1593456\" \/>A squirrel at Nay Aug Park in Scranton on Monday, March 30, 2026. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a chilly weekend, Monday provided a nice spring rebound, with the temperature exceeding 70 degrees at Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,139,28,727,178,180,179,181,1133],"class_list":["post-152595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-photos-and-videos","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}