7:00 AM | **Strong winds tonight and Thursday...ice and snow a threat this weekend**
Paul Dorian
6-Day forecast for the Philadelphia, PA metro region
Today
Mainly cloudy, mild, increasingly windy, chance of showers, highs in the mid-to-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, breezy, cold, near 30 degrees for late night lows
Friday
Mainly sunny, cold, mid 40’s
Saturday
Increasing clouds, cold, near 40 degrees; snow, sleet and/or rain possible at night
Sunday
Mainly cloudy, breezy, cold, chance for rain or a wintry mix that changes to rain, mid-to-upper 40’s; any precipitation could change back to snow late at night
Monday
Mainly cloudy, windy, cold, chance of snow or a wintry mix, lower 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 during the day with a few showers. Those winds will intensify tonight and Thursday following the frontal passage and can gust past 40 mph at times. 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