7:00 AM | **Strong winds tonight and Thursday...ice and/or snow a threat this weekend**
Paul Dorian
6-Day forecast for the Washington, D.C. metro region
Today
Changeable skies, mild, increasingly windy, chance of showers, highs in the upper 50’s
Tonight
Becoming partly cloudy, very windy with gusts past 40 mph, cold, lows near 40 degrees
Thursday
Mainly sunny, cold, very windy with gusts past 40 mph, upper 40’s for afternoon highs
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, still quite breezy, cold, near freezing for late night lows
Friday
Mainly sunny, cold, mid-to-upper 40’s
Saturday
Increasing clouds, cold, near 40 degrees; chance for snow, sleet and/or rain at night
Sunday
Mainly cloudy, breezy, cold, chance of rain or a wintry mix changing to rain, mid 40’s
Monday
Mainly cloudy, windy, cold, chance for rain and/or snow, mid 40’s
Discussion
One major storm is bringing heavy snowfall to the Upper Midwest today and another major storm is impacting the western US with coastal rains and inland snows. The first storm will push quickly in an eastward direction and end up near coastal Maine by tomorrow morning. This system will drag a cold front through our area this evening and it'll become increasingly windy with a few showers during the day. Those winds will intensify tonight and Thursday following the frontal passage and can gust past 40 mph. The second major storm will head northeastward towards the Dakotas later in the week and then run into an “atmospheric roadblock” and be forced to take a turn to the southeast this weekend and head right towards the Mid-Atlantic coastline. Precipitation from this second system will probably arrive here on Saturday night and it is likely to be cold enough for ice and/or snow for at least part of this upcoming precipitation event that may last into Monday.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Perspecta, Inc.
perspectaweather.com