7:00 AM | ****Brutal cold for today; winter storm watch for Sunday night and Monday with ice and snow a strong possibility****

6-Day Forecast

Today

Partly sunny, breezy, very cold for this time of year, highs struggle to reach 25 degrees (more than 20 degrees below normal)

Tonight

Mostly cloudy and very cold, lows in the upper teens

Saturday

Mostly cloudy, not nearly as cold, slight chance for a rain or snow shower, mid 40’s

Saturday Night

Mostly cloudy, cold, lows in the lower 30’s

Sunday

Mostly cloudy, cold, chance for rain late in the day or early at night, mid 40’s

Monday

Cloudy, breezy, colder, rain changes to ice and then to snow, can be a buildup of ice before the changeover to snow, low-to-mid 30’s

Tuesday

Becoming partly sunny, windy and cold, upper 20’s; brutal cold at night

Wednesday

Partly sunny, still very cold, near 30

Discussion

A powerful storm will slam into California later today and bring substantial rains to much of the state over the next 24-36 hours or so with as much as half a foot of rainfall in some areas. This strong storm will then cross the nation over the weekend with copious amounts of moisture and it will reach the Mid-Atlantic region by later Sunday. At the same time, very cold Arctic air will slowly drop southward into the Mid-Atlantic region and the result could be a substantial snowstorm on Monday north of the PA/MD border and a significant ice buildup just to the south of there across places like Virginia, Maryland and the DC metro region. In these areas that do indeed receive an ice buildup, there will be a changeover to accumulating snow as the colder air filters southward during the day on Monday. More bitter cold air will follow the early week storm in the Mid-Atlantic region and throughout much of the eastern U.S.

Video

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