6:00 AM | ***Snowstorm today with 6-10 inches across the N and W suburbs; starts off an active week***
Paul Dorian
6-Day Forecast
Today
Precipitation transitions to all snow during the early-to-mid morning hours, snow falls heavily at times during the late morning and early afternoon hours with a general 6-10 inches of accumulation in the northern and western suburbs and 4-8 inches in Philadelphia before the snow winds down by late afternoon, temperatures holding steady in the low-to-mid 30’s
Tonight
Clearing and quite cold, lows near 20 degrees
Tuesday
Some sun then increasing clouds, cold, mid 30’s
Tuesday Night
Cloudy, ice and/or snow developing with some accumulations possible; especially, in the northern and western suburbs, cold, upper 20’s
Wednesday
Mostly cloudy, becoming a bit milder, precipitation changes to plain rain, upper 30’s
Thursday
Mostly sunny, colder, near 30
Friday
Partly sunny, cold, near 32
Saturday
Mostly cloudy, cold, chance for snow or rain, mid 30’s
Discussion
A snowstorm starts the week in the I-95 corridor from the northern suburbs of DC-to-Philly-to-NYC. Precipitation transitions to all snow around here during the early-to-mid morning hours and it will fall heavily at times as a heavy, wet snow into the mid-afternoon. General accumulations of 6-10 inches can be expected in the northern and western suburbs and 4-8 inches in the city of Philly before the snow tapers off by late afternoon. Driving conditions will be quite bad throughout the morning and early afternoon hours as the heavy, wet snow accumulates, but they should improve at the end of the afternoon after the snow winds down. The heavy, wet consistency of the snow may cause problems on tree limbs later today as the weight increases with the rising accumulation amounts. Another storm will bring a period of ice and/or snow to the region on Tuesday night before a changeover to plain rain on Wednesday and there can be some accumulation of ice and/or snow before the changeover; especially, in the northern and western suburbs. A third storm threatens for the weekend and it is too early to give details on precipitation type, but it promises to be a powerful storm loaded with moisture and it could turn out to be an all-out blizzard for parts of the Mid-Atlantic.