7:00 AM | **Strong-to-severe storms possible later today/early tonight with the potential of heavy downpours and damaging wind gusts**

6-Day forecast for the DC metro region

Today

Mainly cloudy, not as hot, humid, showers and thunderstorms likely during the mid-to-late afternoon hours, some of the storms can be strong-to-severe with the potential of heavy downpours and damaging wind gusts, highs in the mid-to-upper 80’s

Tonight

Mainly cloudy, mild, muggy, showers and thunderstorms likely, some of the rain can be heavy, patchy fog after midnight, lows in the upper 60’s

Thursday

Mainly cloudy, warm, chance of showers and thunderstorms, mid-to-upper 80’s for afternoon highs

Thursday Night

Mainly cloudy, mild, scattered showers and thunderstorms, upper 60’s for overnight lows

Friday

Mainly cloudy, warm, chance of showers and thunderstorms, mid 80’s

Saturday

Mainly cloudy, warm, chance of showers and thunderstorms, mid 80’s

Sunday

Partly sunny, quite warm, chance of showers and thunderstorms, upper 80’s

Monday

Mainly sunny, warm, still the chance of showers and thunderstorms, upper 80’s

Discussion

A cool front will inch across the area later today and tonight and it will become the focus region for slow-moving showers and thunderstorms in the Mid-Atlantic region. Any storm that forms later today can become strong-to-severe with the potential of heavy downpours and damaging wind gusts. The front will stall out just south of here on Thursday and its proximity will keep us unsettled later this week and during the weekend. Temperatures will not be as warm today as they were during the past couple of days and highs will likely hold in the 80’s right through the upcoming weekend. Elsewhere, the eastern Atlantic is looking quite active and we may have a tropical storm to monitor in the western Atlantic around this time next week.

Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Perspecta, Inc.
perspectaweather.com