7:00 AM | **Icing in spots early today...some snow is likely tomorrow night into early Friday...cold shot to accompany the late week event and another blast arrives early next week**
Paul Dorian
6-Day forecast for the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania metro region
Today
Mainly cloudy with the chance for a bit of freezing rain early in the day, becoming quite breezy and milder for the afternoon hours with a rain shower or two possible, highs in the low-to-mid 40’s by later in the afternoon; Light S-SW winds in the morning increasing to 10-20 mph during the afternoon
Tonight
Mainly cloudy, cold, lows in the upper 20’s
Thursday
Partly sunny, cold, mid 30’sfor afternoon highs
Thursday Night
Some snow is likely, cold, mid-to-upper 20’s for late night lows
Friday
Some snow is likely early in the day then becoming partly sunny, breezy, cold, lower 30’s
Saturday
Mostly sunny, breezy, cold, low-to-mid 30’s
Sunday
Becoming mainly cloudy, a bit milder, chance of rain and/or snow showers, breezy, lower 40’s
Monday
Partly sunny, breezy, colder, mid 30’s
Discussion
High pressure will shift off the coast today and this will allow for somewhat milder air to push into the Mid-Atlantic region from the Ohio Valley. Initially, this action may produce a touch of freezing rain as low-level temperatures hover near freezing early in the day, but temperatures should climb into the 40’s this afternoon aided by an increasingly strong southwesterly wind. A cold front will pass through the region in the overnight hours paving the way for a colder air mass for the late week. The next threat of accumulating snow for the Mid-Atlantic region comes on Thursday night and early Friday as low pressure pushes to near the Mid-Atlantic coastline. At this time, the late week event looks like a moderate snowfall - perhaps on the order of 2-4 inches - as the low pressure system will be moving along at a pretty good clip. Perhaps a bigger story is the cold that will likely accompany and follow this late week event and then another cold blast is destined to arrive early next week. The blast early next week could turn out be a doozy with “single-digit” type cold…get ready for those heating bills.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather