7:00 AM | *Noticeable warm up begins today and peaks tomorrow afternoon with 70+ degrees on the table*

6-Day forecast for the Washington, D.C. metro region

Today

Mainly sunny, becoming noticeably milder, highs in the mid 60’s; S-SW winds at 5-10 mph

Tonight

Mainly clear, not as chilly as recent nights, lows in the upper 40’s

Thursday

Partly sunny, becoming quite breezy and very mild, chance of late day showers, lower 70’s for afternoon highs           

Thursday Night             

Mainly cloudy, windy, showers likely in the evening, turning colder and clearing late, mid 30’s for late night lows           

Friday

Mainly sunny, windy, colder, mid-to-upper 40’s

Saturday

Mainly sunny, still on the chilly side, but not as windy as Friday, upper 40’s            

Sunday

Mainly cloudy, chilly, showers possible late in the dat, but more likely at night, lower 50’s           

Monday

Mainly cloudy chilly, breezy, chance of showers, lower 50’s

Discussion              

It’ll turn noticeably milder this afternoon in the DC metro region on the back side of high pressure which will result in an S-SW low-level flow of air.  The warm up intensifies on Thursday just ahead of the next strong cold front and temperatures are likely to climb to the lower 70’s during the afternoon hours. That cold front will usher in another colder-than-normal air mass for the end of the work week and the weekend and yet another cold air mass is destined to arrive into the Mid-Atlantic region early next week.

Meteorologist Paul Dorian