{"id":588820,"date":"2026-02-14T06:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T06:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/588820\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T06:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T06:32:26","slug":"mild-sunny-valentines-day-in-philadelphia-area-ahead-of-wintry-mix-sunday-heres-the-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/588820\/","title":{"rendered":"Mild, sunny Valentine&#8217;s Day in Philadelphia area ahead of wintry mix Sunday. Here&#8217;s the forecast."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grab the sunglasses again and enjoy a day with your sweetie free of anything significant from Mother Nature.<\/p>\n<p>High pressure will treat us to a bright, sunny day. Temperatures will be near our average of 44 so a seasonably mild afternoon.\u00a0 Light jackets should be good, but heavier coat for the morning.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/z-region-forecast-tomorrow-1.png#.png\" alt=\"Sunny Valentine's Day in the Philadelphia area \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>  NEXT big changes<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday skies turn cloudy as a large storm system slides past to our south. Scattered rain showers will mix with snow in the later afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>By late evening and overnight the temperatures will drop to the low and mid 30&#8217;s with rain changing to wet snow in places.<\/p>\n<p>Very cold air to the north will not fully phase with the storm and temperatures remain too warm for much accumulation but a coating to a few inches of slushy snow is possible.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sun-10pm.png#.png\" alt=\"Sunny Valentine's Day in the Philadelphia area \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>By Monday morning, the storm will be long gone and any slushy snow that did fall will melt quickly as temperatures are expected to rise into the 40&#8217;s. However, there are significant differences in the forecast models with the most aggressive wanting to dump more snow than that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While that scenario is unlikely, the NEXT Weather Team is closely monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>The second big change is temperatures in the low 50&#8217;s by Tuesday and likely for the remainder of next week. In fact, the extended outlook keeps us above freezing during the day for the next 7-10 days.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be tracking more rain chances by Wednesday and Thursday, thus melting even more snow.<\/p>\n<p>Sick of Winter? well, meteorological Spring is on March 1 and the astronomical Spring is on March 20th.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s your 7-day forecast:<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/z-7-day-pm-3.png#.png\" alt=\"Sunny Valentine's Day in the Philadelphia area \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday\/Valentine&#8217;s Day:\u00a0<\/strong>Sun and clouds mix. High 45, low 24.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday:\u00a0<\/strong>Evening rain or snow. High 42, low 30.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday\/Presidents<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Day:\u00a0<\/strong>Mostly sunny. High 44, low 32.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday:\u00a0<\/strong>Finally warmer. High 52, Low 33.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday:\u00a0<\/strong>Chance rain. High 50, low 39.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday:\u00a0<\/strong>Chance rain. High 48, low 38.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday:\u00a0<\/strong>Mostly cloudy. High 46, low 37.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/weather\/next-weather-radar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">NEXT Weather Radars<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Hourly Forecast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grab the sunglasses again and enjoy a day with your sweetie free of anything significant from Mother Nature.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":588821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,905,401,1448,2830,1311,201300,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,254719,8583,7160],"class_list":{"0":"post-588820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-delaware","10":"tag-new-jersey","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-snow-day","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa","21":"tag-valentine039s-day","22":"tag-weather-blogs","23":"tag-weather-forecast"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116067588522729276","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}