7:00 AM | ***Occasional showers, milder and winds can gust to 50 mph from later today into tonight ***
Paul Dorian
6-Day forecast for the Washington, D.C. metro region
Today
Mainly cloudy with occasional showers, maybe a thunderstorm, milder and becoming very windy with gusts to 50 mph possible, highs near 60 degrees; S-SW winds increasing to 20-30 mph; gusts to 50 mph possible
Tonight
Skies will clear, turning much colder and still very windy with gusts to 40 mph, lows late near 30 degrees
Thursday
Mainly sunny, still windy with gusts to 40 mph, much colder, near 45 degrees for afternoon highs
Thursday Night
Mainly clear, quite cold, mid-to-upper 20’s for late night lows
Friday
Partly sunny, quite chilly, upper 40’s
Saturday
Mainly cloudy, much milder, occasional showers, near 60 degrees
Sunday
Mainly sunny, brisk, colder, upper 40’s
Monday
Mainly cloudy, chilly, chance of showers, near 50 degrees
Discussion
If you are an inflatable Santa Claus then today is not your kind of day in the Mid-Atlantic region. A strong cold front will cross the region later today and winds ahead of it will increase dramatically from a S-SW direction and can gust up to 50 mph or so. Following the front, winds will remain quite strong later tonight and Thursday gusting to 40 mph or so from a northwesterly direction. After a milder day here at mid-week, temperatures will crash later tonight and hold pretty close to the 45 degree mark for highs on Thursday afternoon. It remains quite chilly and dry on Friday, but then turns much milder on Saturday with occasional showers as the next frontal system arrives.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather