Snow, record heat and possible tornadoes in the US forecast

The weather in most of the Northeast is forecast to be disguised as summer for Halloween.

As ghosts and goblins prepare for trick-or-treating Thursday, temperatures are expected to resemble Labor Day more than All Hallows’ Eve as the autumnal heat continues across the US.

Several cities in the Northeast are forecast to break potential high temperature records for the last day of October.

In New York City, temperatures could reach 80 degrees on Thursday, which would be a new record for the day. Records are also expected to fall in Philadelphia, Boston, Pittsburgh, Washington, DC, as these cities are also expected to cross the 80-degree mark.

Even the far Northeast will experience a warm Halloween as Burlington, Vermont and Bangor, Maine are forecast to warm up to 76 degrees. To the south, Charleston, South Carolina, could reach 84 degrees, while Raleigh, North Carolina, is expected to reach 81 degrees.

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

However, the mild weather will be short-lived.

A strong cold front is expected to move through the Northeast Friday afternoon, putting an end to the record heat.

For the New York City Marathon on Sunday, the high temperature for the day is forecast at 57 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.

The cold front is also expected to bring cold temperatures, rain and snow to parts of the Great Lakes and upper Midwest. A winter weather advisory for Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan takes into account the chance of measurable snow.

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

While people in the North East broke out T-shirts and shorts as records were broken high temperatures this weekSeveral inches of snow covered Hawaii’s mountain peaks.

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

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

“Due to winter weather conditions, the summit is currently closed both day and night and permits for the Mauna Loa Summit Cabin have been temporarily suspended,” the spokesperson said. Volcanoes National Park The company reported this in a statement on its Facebook page.

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

The wintry weather expected for the Rockies was offset this week by record temperatures across much of the country, from Detroit, where temperatures reached 77 degrees on Wednesday, to Laredo, Texas, where temperatures were expected to reach 94 degrees. set a daily record.