When Will It Feel Like Spring In Massachusetts? Arctic Wind Chills Will ...

Those bitter wind chills ripping across your face this week may have made you wonder if you slept all the way to December, but no, it’s just New England being New England.

If you’re itching for more mild and spring-like temps, just hang on a bit longer as the arctic wind chills will soon be gone.

The National Weather Service is forecasting a major rebound for the second half of the workweek. After a chilly Wednesday morning, temps should climb into the upper 40s in the afternoon — followed by temps in the 60s on Thursday and Friday.

Such a late-March cold snap like Monday and Tuesday is “not completely out of the ordinary” for the region, said Torry Gaucher, meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Boston office.

“They do happen, but the more positive thing this time of the year is it typically doesn’t stay cold for more than a day or two,” he added. “Then it starts to rebound to more normal temperatures.”

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Monday’s cold temps ended up in the record books. The high of 33 degrees at Logan International Airport tied the record for the lowest high temp on March 28, which was previously set all the way back in 1893.

A record cold high temp of 27 degrees in Worcester broke the previous record of 28 degrees in the city, set in 1966.

Tuesday was yet another cold day, as most in the Bay State woke up to single-digit wind chills. It even felt like below zero in some elevated spots of western Massachusetts.

Early Wednesday, it could feel like the teens and single digits before the milder temps finally arrive.

A warm front should bring temps up to the 60s on Thursday, but showers and windy conditions are also expected. Heavy showers will be possible Thursday night into early Friday morning before a drying trend Friday afternoon.

April Fools’ Day on Friday will be far different from April 1, 1997. This will be the 25th anniversary of the historic April Fools’ Day blizzard, which dumped 25 inches of snow on Boston. It was the fourth-biggest snowstorm in the city’s history. Two days before the wet and heavy snow wreaked havoc across the region, it was 60 degrees.

Gaucher said, “People were definitely not mentally prepared to have that type of storm come through after those warm temperatures.”