2/28 Connecticut Weather 6 PM: Clear Skies

Good evening. Connecticut. I'm Aaron Jolly. Folks, if you stepped outside today, you felt something suspicious. 54 degrees. Clear skies. February pretending to be April. Soak up that memory. Because winter's about to come crashing back through the door. In the next 24 hours. Right now a ridge of high pressure is giving us this gift. but it's already sliding east. A weak cold front sneaks in tonight, bringing patchy fog along the coast after 11 P.M. Lows settle into the mid 20s. Nothing dramatic. Just the opening act. The real show starts Sunday. A stronger Arctic front barrels across the state, kicking off light snow around 7 A.M. Central Connecticut gets the best shot at sticking snow. We're talking 1 to 2 inches possible. Coastal towns and the eastern side of the state pick up less than an inch. Snow wraps up by late afternoon. But the snow isn't the headline. What follows is. Sunday night, temperatures nosedive. Central Connecticut plunges to 9 degrees. The shoreline drops to 13. Eastern Connecticut lands near 11. Wind chills flirt with zero inland. That's a 40 degrees freefall from where you're standing right now. The kind of cold that makes your car groan when you turn the key. Monday stays locked in the freezer. Highs barely crack 30 degrees under sunny skies. Now the week ahead tells an interesting story. Monday and Tuesday morning stay bitter. Then everything pivots. Tuesday afternoon pushes into the upper 30s with a rain and snow mix turning to plain rain. Wednesday through Friday? We're back near 50 degrees with periodic rain chances. Above normal. Almost springlike. The spring equinox is just 20 days away. and we're gaining nearly 3 minutes of daylight each day. Charge your phone tonight. Tomorrow morning's weather alerts will be worth reading before you grab that shovel. That's your forecast — we'll be back tomorrow. For the extended outlook, check the latest forecast as confidence improves. Stay safe, stay prepared. and enjoy the day.