Overview
- Warmth surges Friday across wide swaths of the U.S. and southern Ontario, with 70s and 80s common and Toronto near 21 C, while the Seattle area trends drier and turns milder into the weekend.
- Saturday serves as a transition day for many areas, staying warm but turning cloudier with scattered afternoon and evening showers or thunderstorms.
- A cold front moving in late Saturday night into Easter Sunday morning is expected to deliver steady rain for sunrise services in many regions before conditions gradually improve later in the day.
- Forecasters flag a low-end severe risk in spots with a few storms capable of hail and strong wind gusts, and brief localized flooding where heavier downpours linger.
- Temperatures drop behind the front with below-average highs early next week, and Florida rainfall after Tuesday remains uncertain as the American GFS projects a much wetter late week than the European model.