Virginia Weather Forecast For February

Have you had enough snow?

The blizzard buried Northern Virginia in more than two feet of snow, but the region’s storm-weary residents will see something different from February 2016.

The month starts with a threat for some flooding of small streams and larger rivers, due to a combination of snow melting and rainfall, according to the National Weather Service.

As for temperatures, the month will be the “polar opposite” of February 2015, according to AccuWeather Meteorologist Evan Duffey.

“February will begin with a significant change to the weather pattern across the eastern United States,” he said.

Although a storm system is forecast to bring snow and severe weather to the Midwest, mild air from the Gulf of Mexico will surge northward and bring a stretch of above-average temperatures.

Record-high temperatures will reach into the 60s and lower 70s across the mid-Atlantic and 80s across the Southeast, according to AccuWeather.

The warmup in February will be followed by a short dip in temperatures roughly a week into the month, according to The Weather Channel outlook.

“We expect a whiplash back to warmer eastern U.S. temperatures during the back half of the month,” meteorologist Todd Crawford tells weather.com.