7:00 AM | A bitter cold start to the day with some amazing March low temperatures, but the 50's are on the horizon
Paul Dorian
6-Day Forecast
Today
A brutal cold start to the day with mainly cloudy skies, but the afternoon should feature partial sunshine along with very cold conditions, highs only reaching the upper 20’s (normal high at DCA is 51 degrees)
Tonight
Partly cloudy, bitter cold, lows in the low-to-middle teens
Wednesday
Partly-to-mostly sunny, very cold for this time of year, but not as harsh as Tuesday, upper 30’s
Wednesday Night
Mostly cloudy, quite cold, lows in the lower 20’s
Thursday
Mostly cloudy, cold, chance for snow showers at night, upper 30’s
Friday
Partly sunny, breezy, somewhat milder, mid 40’s
Saturday
Mostly cloudy, even milder, chance for rain showers at night, low 50’s
Sunday
Partly sunny, colder, mid-to-upper 40’s
Discussion
Bitter cold air starts the day and temperatures will climb no higher than the upper 20’s this afternoon which is way below normal for this time of year. Some impressive morning low temperatures in the Mid-Atlantic region with, for example, Atlantic City, NJ bottoming out at 2 degrees - an all-time record low temperature for the month of March. In addition, all of the following are record lows for the month of March that were set this morning:
Dover, DE: 8 degrees Baltimore, MD: 4 degrees (broke a record that stood since 1873 for the city of Baltimore) Dulles Airport, VA: -1 degrees (tied) Charlottesville, VA: 3 degrees
After another bitter cold night, temperatures will slowly modify during the second half of the week and should actually climb into the 40’s by Saturday afternoon. A storm does move up along the east coast later this week, but it appears at this time that it will only skirt the I-95 corridor with its moisture field.
Video
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