7:00 AM | **Accumulating snow Thursday/Thursday night followed by bitter cold; incredible cold potential for next week**

6-Day Forecast

Today

Mostly cloudy, breezy, cold, snow showers possible later this afternoon, highs in the mid 30’s

Tonight

Partly cloudy, breezy, cold, lows in the mid 20’s

Wednesday

Mostly cloudy, cold, low 30’s

Wednesday Night

Becoming cloudy, quite cold, some snow possible late, upper 20’s

Thursday

Cloudy, cold, occasional snow becoming heaviest at night, low 30’s

Friday

Snow ending early, windy and very cold, upper teens for highs and plunging to 0 degrees or below by early Saturday

Saturday

Brutal cold start to the day and a cold afternoon, mostly sunny skies, mid 20’s

Sunday

Mostly cloudy, not as cold, upper 30’s

Discussion

A storm will move off the Mid-Atlantic coastline late Thursday and it is likely to bring several inches of accumulating snow to the region into early Friday morning. This potential Northeast US snowstorm will be aided by a powerful upper-level jet streak, cold Arctic high pressure to the north, and lots of moisture riding northward from the Gulf of Mexico. While the snow can begin early in the day on Thursday, the heaviest of the accumulating snow is likely to occur on Thursday night. This storm will be followed by bitter cold air with temperatures likely holding in the upper teens for highs on Friday on top of a fresh snowpack, and then low temperatures by early Saturday morning will plunge to 0 degrees or below in some of the normally colder northern and western suburbs. Furthermore, all indications are that this late week bitter cold air outbreak will not be the last. In fact, there is the potential for an incredibly cold air outbreak to arrive in the Mid-Atlantic region by around Tuesday of next week.