7:00 AM | **Low pressure impacts us later this weekend...stronger system reaches us later next week**

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

Today

Mainly sunny, cold, highs in the mid-to-upper 40’s; N-NW around 5 mph

Tonight

Mainly clear, cold, lows near freezing

Saturday

Partly sunny, cold, low-to-mid 40’s for afternoon highs

Saturday Night             

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

Sunday

Mainly cloudy, cold, chance of rain, a combination of snow and rain is possible in some of the far northern and western suburbs, mid 40’s

Monday

Partly sunny, cold, mid 40’s

Tuesday

Mainly sunny, cold, mid 40’s

Wednesday

Mainly cloudy, cold, chance of rain late or at night, possibly some frozen precipitation north and west, low-to-mid 40’s

Discussion              

An active weather pattern will feature a couple of storm systems to deal with between later this weekend and the end of next week.  The first low pressure system will form over the Midwest on Saturday and then push its precipitation into the Mid-Atlantic region on Sunday. There may be enough cold air around for some snow in some of the far northern and western suburbs.  A stronger storm system will wreak havoc across much of the nation next week with a possible severe weather outbreak on Tuesday in the Lower Mississippi Valley and a blizzard in the Northern Plains, This system could impact the Mid-Atlantic later next week and frozen precipitation may be in the mix. We’ll have to monitor the possibility of re-development of surface low pressure near the eastern seaboard as the initial primary low heads into strong blocking in the atmosphere over Canada.

Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather