7:00 AM | ***Quite cold air pushes in for the weekend...winter storm threatens us later Monday into Tuesday with snow and ice***
Paul Dorian
6-Day forecast for the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania metro region
Today
Partly sunny, breezy, cold, cannot rule out a shower or two of snow, snow pellets (graupel) or rain, highs near 40 degrees; W winds at 10-15 mph; gusts to 25 mph
Tonight
Partly cloudy, breezy, quite cold, lows in the lower 20’s
Saturday
Partly sunny, windy, quite cold, isolated snow showers possible, lower 30’s for afternoon highs
Saturday Night
Mainly clear, very cold, mid-to-upper teens for late night lows
Sunday
Partly sunny, breezy, still quite cold, snow showers are possible late in the day or at night, low-to-mid 30’s
Monday
Mainly cloudy, cold, chance of snow or a mix of snow and ice by later in the day, mid 30’s
Tuesday
Mainly cloudy, cold, chance of snow, mid 30’s
Wednesday
Mainly sunny early, clouds late, cold, mid 30’s
Discussion
The next cold front will cross the region today and it’ll usher in quite a cold air mass for the upcoming weekend with highs on Saturday and Sunday confined to the lower or middle 30’s. Low pressure is likely to pull out of the south-central states by early Monday and head towards the Tennessee Valley while a secondary system forms off the Mid-Atlantic coastline. Snow or a mix of snow and ice likely arrives here in the afternoon and continues into Tuesday with accumulations certainly on the table; especially, across the northern and western suburbs. Another system could threaten the area with snow later next week, but its northward extent is still uncertain this far out.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Perspecta, Inc.
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