7:00 AM | **Temperatures to climb to near 90 today...hottest stretch comes Friday through Sunday...an increasing chance of showers and storms...little relief next week**

6-Day forecast for the Washington, D.C. metro region

Today

Mainly sunny, very warm, more humid, highs not far from 90 degrees; S-SW winds around 5 mph

Tonight

Partly cloudy, mild, muggy, lows near 70 degrees

Friday

Mainly sunny, hot, humid, middle 90’s for afternoon highs

Friday Night             

Partly cloudy, mild, muggy, near 75 degrees for late night lows

Saturday

Mainly sunny, quite hot, chance of PM showers and thunderstorms, upper 90’s

Sunday

Partly sunny, quite hot, chance of PM showers and thunderstorms, upper 90’s

Monday

Partly sunny, hot, chance of showers and thunderstorms, lower 90’s

Tuesday

Partly sunny, hot, lower 90’s

Discussion

Temperatures today should peak near the 90 degree mark for afternoon highs and then likely well up in the 90’s on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday which will be the hottest stretch during this heat spell. A few different frontal systems will bring an increasing chance of showers and thunderstorms to the region by the weekend with the best chance likely late on Sunday at which time a cool front will be approaching from the northwest. Any thunderstorm that forms in this hot stretch can produce heavy rainfall and locally damaging wind gusts. The late weekend cool front gets hung up in the region early next week suggesting any relief is going to be minimal. In fact, high temperatures should climb to the lower 90’s on Monday and Tuesday and probably back into the middle 90’s by mid-week.

Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather