7:00 AM | **An active weather pattern with late weekend system and another by the middle of next week**

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

Today

Clouds and limited sun, breezy, a bit cooler, highs in the mid 50’s; N-NW winds at 5-15 mph

Tonight

Mainly cloudy, cold, chance of a bit of rain late, lows in the mid-to-upper 30’s

Friday

Mainly sunny, cold, mid-to-upper 40’s for afternoon highs

Friday Night             

Mainly cloudy, cold, a bit of rain and/or snow possible, mid 30’s for late night lows  

Saturday

Mainly cloudy, cold, mid-to-upper 40’s

Sunday

Mainly cloudy, cold, chance of PM rain, there is the chance for snow to mix in well to the north and west, mid-to-upper 40’s

Monday

Partly sunny, cold, mid-to-upper 40’s

Tuesday

Mainly sunny, cold, mid-to-upper 40’s

Discussion              

An active weather pattern will bring us multiple storm systems to deal with into the middle of next week.  One system will push out of the Midwest on Saturday and head to the Mid-Atlantic with precipitation from Sunday into early Monday. As this system drops south and east to the coastline late in the weekend, it can draw enough cold air for a combination of snow and rain; especially, across interior, higher elevation locations of the Mid-Atlantic. Another system can spawn a severe weather outbreak around next Tuesday in the Lower Mississippi Valley, and then its precipitation field will likely reach the Mid-Atlantic at the middle of next week. It may be cold enough for some frozen precipitation to be mixed in with that system as well.

Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather