7:00 AM | Next few days will feature summer-like temperatures well up in the 80's...weekend turns cooler and a shower threat on each day

6-Day DC Forecast

Today

Mainly sunny, breezy, very warm, highs in the upper 80’s

Tonight

Mainly clear, mild, lows in the low-to-mid 60’s

Thursday

Mainly sunny, quite breezy and very warm, cannot rule out a late day or nighttime shower or thunderstorm, upper 80’s for afternoon highs

Thursday Night

Mainly cloudy, quite mild, chance of a shower or thunderstorm, mid 60’s for overnight lows

Friday

Partly sunny, still quite warm and breezy, chance of showers and thunderstorms late in the day or at night, upper 80’s

Saturday

Mainly cloudy, not as warm, chance of showers, upper 70’s

Sunday

Mainly cloudy, even cooler, chance of showers, lower 70’s

Monday

Partly sunny, mild, chance of showers, lower 70’s

Discussion

A major warm up began in the Mid-Atlantic region on Tuesday afternoon after a cool start to the day and it’ll continue right through the rest of the work week. In fact, temperatures today, tomorrow and Friday should reach well into the 80's in the DC-to-Philly-to-NYC corridor and there may be several spots around here that flirt with the 90 degree mark for highs. There will also be a noticeable SW breeze at times over the next few days on the back side of strong high pressure over the western Atlantic. A weak cool front could generate spotty showers and thunderstorms around here late Friday/Friday night and the weekend will turn cooler with the chance of showers on both days. Elsewhere, it has been a slow tornado season so far this year across the central and southern Plains, but there could be a widespread severe weather outbreak later today as a clash develops in that part of the country between very warm, humid advancing northward from the Gulf of Mexico air and a cold air mass sliding eastward across the southwestern US.

Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Vencore, Inc.
vencoreweather.com