7:00 AM | Cold weather has arrived and will stick around through the work week; weekend storm threat and odds favor rain

6-Day Forecast

Today

Clouds this morning will give way to sunshine this afternoon, cold, highs in the mid-to-upper 30’s

Tonight

Mostly clear, quite cold, lows in the lower 20’s

Wednesday

Mostly sunny and cold, low 30’s

Wednesday Night

Mostly clear, very cold, mid-to-upper teens

Thursday

Mostly sunny, cold, low-to-mid 30’s

Friday

Partly sunny, cold, mid-to-upper 30’s

Saturday

Becoming cloudy, chilly, chance for PM rain that could start out briefly as snow or sleet, near 40 degrees

Sunday

Mostly cloudy, chilly, chance for more rain, low 40's

Discussion

Very strong high pressure will be in control of the weather across much of the nation over the next few days as it spreads south and east from the Northern Rockies. The weather will be much more typical of winter around here as we end the month of December and begin 2015, and it’ll be mainly on the dry side in the I-95 corridor. Significant moisture is likely to gather this weekend near the Gulf of Mexico and then spread northeast towards the Mid-Atlantic region and the Ohio Valley. At the current time, it appears that low pressure associated with this moisture field will pass to our west this weekend keeping us on the warmer side of the storm and this in turn will favor primarily a rain event around here from later Saturday into Sunday.

Video

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