7:00 AM | *Back door cold front should cool us down quite a bit on Sunday...heavy rain event Sunday night into Monday with strong thunderstorms possible*
Paul Dorian
6-Day DC Forecast
Today
Clouds into late morning with a sprinkle or two possible then mainly sunny skies from mid-day through the afternoon, becoming breezy, warm, highs in the lwoer 80's
Tonight
Mainly clear, mild, lows in the upper 50’s
Saturday
Mainly sunny, breezy, warm, near 80 degrees for afternoon highs
Saturday Night
Becoming mainly cloudy, breezy, mild, near 60 degrees for overnight lows
Sunday
Mainly cloudy, breezy and turning cooler with the chance of afternoon showers, temperatures in the 60's early in the day could drop to the 50's depending on the movement of a back door cold front; heavy rain and possible strong thunderstorms at night
Monday
Heavy rain still possible early; otherwise, mainly cloudy, breezy and cool with chance of afternoon showers, upper 50’s for highs
Tuesday
Mainly cloudy, breezy and cool, lower 50’s for highs
Wednesday
Mainly sunny, much milder, mid 60's
Discussion
Temperatures will climb to 80+ degrees for highs both this afternoon and on Saturday in the DC metro region. It should turn a lot cooler on Sunday depending on the movement of a strong back door cold front that will be moving down the Northeast US coastline from northeast-to-southwest. A heavy rain event is likely here from Sunday night into Monday as a strong west-to-east moving cold front pushes in from the Midwest. There can be strong thunderstorms mixed into the picture as well during this heavy rain event and some locations in the I-95 corridor could end up with more than two inches by later Monday morning. This same cold front will likely result in a widespread severe weather outbreak today across the southern Plains and on Saturday in the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys. The next month or so could very well be quite active in those same areas with the possibility of numerous severe weather events.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Vencore, Inc.
vencoreweather.com