7:00 AM | *Damaging wind gusts possible today...much colder tonight/Thursday...snow threat for Saturday*
Paul Dorian
6-Day DC Forecast
Today
Mainly cloudy this morning and winds will become quite strong out of the SW up to 40 mph, showers and embedded thunderstorms will arrive in the mid-day hours and some of the storms could contain damaging wind gusts of 50+ mph, it stays very windy later this afternoon from a NW direction and gusts could again surpass 50 mph, temperatures will reach the mid 60's by mid-day, but then will drop noticeably this afternoon
Tonight
Mainly clear, windy, much colder, lows near 30 degrees
Thursday
Mainly sunny, windy, cold, near 50 degrees for afternoon highs
Thursday Night
Mainly cloudy, cold, showers possible towards morning, upper 30’s for overnight lows
Friday
Mainly cloudy, milder, chance for showers, near 60 degrees
Saturday
Mainly cloudy, much colder, chance for snow and/or rain, near 40 degrees
Sunday
Mainly sunny, cold, mid-to-upper 40’s
Monday
Mainly cloudy, cold, chance for rain, upper 40’s
Discussion
A warm front pushed through the region last night and today will feature the mid-day arrival of a strong cold frontal system that can generate damaging wind gusts of up to 60 mph and isolated power outages. This strong cold front produced severe weather yesterday in the Ohio Valley and there can be damaging wind gusts around here both when a line of showers and storms arrives at mid-day and then following the frontal passage later this afternoon as temperatures drop and winds shift to NW from SW. Much colder air pushes in overnight and it’ll be windy and cold on Thursday just in time for the Nationals home opener. Low pressure will then trek southeastward on Friday across the Great Lakes and it’ll advance a cold front in our direction. That front will pass through the area by the early part of the weekend and usher in a very chilly air mass for this time of year. Low pressure may then form along the stalling out cold frontal boundary zone on Saturday and threaten us with accumulating snow. Stay tuned.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Vencore, Inc.
vencoreweather.com