7:00 AM | *Brilliant sunshine today...refreshingly cool tonight...watching the Gulf of Mexico*

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

Today

Brilliant sunshine, breezy, comfortable, highs in the mid-to-upper 70’s; NW winds at 10-15 mph; gusts to 25 mph

Tonight

Mainly clear, refreshingly cool, lows in the mid 50’s

Thursday

Mainly sunny, still quite pleasant, upper 70’s for afternoon highs

Thursday Night

Mainly clear, cool, upper 50’s for late night lows

Friday

Mainly sunny, warmer, mid-to-upper 80’s

Saturday

Partly sunny, quite warm, chance of showers and thunderstorms, near 90 degrees

Sunday

Mainly sunny, very warm, upper 80’s

Monday

Partly sunny, very warm, chance of showers and thunderstorms, near 90 degrees

Discussion

In the wake of Monday night’s frontal passage, a comfortable air mass pushed into the Mid-Atlantic region on Tuesday and it'll stay very pleasant around here for the next couple of days following the passage of a secondary cool front. Temperatures during the next couple of nights will drop into the 50’s in most suburban locations and afternoon highs will remain in the comfortable 70’s until Friday. At the same time we’re enjoying comfortable weather conditions in the Northeast US, much of the western US is suffering through some excessive heat as intense upper-level high pressure dominates that part of the nation. For example, Phoenix, AZ may experience high temperatures near the 120 degree mark later in the week and Death Valley, CA could reach 125 degrees. Elsewhere, it looks like the Gulf of Mexico will feature a tropical system by the end of the work week and this system should move northward towards the central Gulf coast by the late weekend. After that, there is a chance that the leftover rains of the tropical system move to the northeast and potentially all the way into the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast US during the early part of next week.

Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Peraton
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