7:00 AM | Snow showers this morning and then another threat tomorrow night and early Saturday from the next frontal system

6-Day Forecast

Today

Morning snow showers that could produce a dusting in areas; gradual clearing this afternoon, cold, highs near 40 degrees

Tonight

Partly cloudy, cold, lows in the mid-to-upper 20's

Friday

Becoming cloudy late with a few rain showers possible at the end of the day, chilly, low-to-mid 40’s

Friday Night

Mostly cloudy, cold, snow showers possible, upper 20's

Saturday

Morning snow showers possible; otherwise, partly sunny skies, cold, mid 30’s

Sunday

Variable clouds, breezy, cold, chance for snow showers, mid-to-upper 30’s

Monday

Mostly sunny, cold, near 40

Tuesday

Becoming cloudy, chance for snow later in the day, cold, near 40

Discussion

One cold front is generating snow showers in our area this morning and the next front, in a long series of fronts, will push into the eastern states tomorrow night/early Saturday and it will likely generate more snow showers for the Mid-Atlantic region. Yet another disturbance will drop southeastward out of Canada by Sunday and it too could spark some snow shower activity in the region as we close out the weekend. By the middle of next week, we’ll be looking at the potential invasion of another bitter Arctic air mass and that cold shot could be preceded by some snow later Tuesday.

In fact, all indications point to a return of “deep freeze” weather in the eastern US beginning around the middle of next week and that colder weather pattern could last right into the early part of February. Longer range computer model forecasts from both the European and GFS (NOAA) are depicting an upper-level pattern that will feature a long wave trough in the eastern US and a long wave ridge along the west coast of North America by the second half of next week. The combination of these two upper level features will likely bring numerous Arctic air outbreaks into the central and eastern US from central Canada - perhaps for a two or three week period and right into the first part of February. It is too early to tell if we’ll get as cold as the early month “polar vortex” cold air outbreak, but Arctic outbreaks this time of year – climatologically the coldest time of the year – certainly can be noteworthy and I expect sub-zero readings to return to much of the northern US.

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