7:00 AM | A bitter cold start to the day with some amazing temperatures for the month of March, but there is some milder air on the horizon
Paul Dorian
6-Day Forecast
Today
A brutally cold start to the day with sunshine filtered by high clouds, remaining very cold this afternoon with partial sunshine, highs only reaching the mid-to-upper 20's (normal high now at PHL is 48 degrees)
Tonight
Partly cloudy, bitter cold, lows not far from 10 degrees
Wednesday
Partly-to-mostly sunny, still quite cold for this time of year, but not as harsh as Tuesday, mid 30’s
Wednesday Night
Mostly cloudy, cold, lows in the lower 20’s
Thursday
Mostly cloudy, cold, chance for snow showers at night, upper 30’s
Friday
Partly sunny, breezy, chilly, near 40
Saturday
Mostly cloudy, milder, rain or snow showers possible at night, mid 40’s
Sunday
Partly sunny, colder, maybe a few snow showers, near 40
Discussion
Bitter cold air starts the day and temperatures will climb no higher than the mid-to-upper 20’s this afternoon which is way below normal for this time of year. Some very 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
httpv://youtu.be/-WvQumdDkis