A Big Cooldown Arrived to Start June

A big cooldown spread from the Midwest to the Northeast over the last few days. While the Midwest saw temperatures begin to rebound on Tuesday, the cool air will linger in the Northeast through midweek.

Let's examine the chilly details for the Northeast and Midwest below.

Northeast Temperature Drop

Cooler temperatures moved into western New York and northern New England on Sunday. The cool air mass has now engulfed much of New England and parts of the I-95 corridor to start the week.

High temperatures were 10 to 20 degrees below average instead of 10 to 20 degrees above average like we saw much of last week.

Temperatures on Monday afternoon were only in the 40s and 50s across parts of New England, New York and western Pennsylvania. This includes New York City where it was in middle 50s. New York City saw their high of 58 degrees overnight and this tied their record cold high temperature for June 1.

Record cold high temperatures were set on Monday across southern New England, including Boston (49 degrees), Providence (53 degrees), Hartford (53 degrees) and Worcester (48 degrees). The high of 49 degrees in Boston also tied the coldest high temperature for June (set on June 5, 1945).

This is quite a change from the warmth those two locations saw this past weekend. Boston's high on Saturday was in upper 80s, which is more than 30 degrees warmer than Monday. The Big Apple has seen a drop of about 30 degrees from Sunday's high of 87 degrees and on Monday Central Park tied its record cold high temperature with a high of 58 degrees.

Boston set another record cold high temperature on Tuesday of 49 degrees. This is only the third time, including on Monday, that the high temperature on any day in June was below 50 degrees.

Cooler Midwest and Plains

Noticeably cooler temperatures were felt in the Upper Midwest and Plains Saturday with highs generally in the 50s and 60s in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

On Sunday morning locations as far south as northern Illinois, including Chicago, woke up to wind chills in the 30s. The actual air temperature dipped to the freezing mark (32 degrees) in a few spots across northern Wisconsin and northern Minnesota.

Sunday's highs didn't get out of the 50s in Chicago and Detroit. Marquette, Michigan failed to rise out of the 40s for the final day of May.

Cooler-than-average temperatures lingered in the Great Lakes, Ohio Valley and mid-Mississippi Valley on Monday, with temperatures Monday afternoon mostly in the 50s and 60s.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin only reached 54 degrees on Monday which is the coldest high temperature for June 1 since 1980.

(MAPS: 10-day Forecast)

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