7:00 AM | ****An active Arctic frontal passage that will include rain transitioning to accumulating snow/sleet on Saturday...high winds and very cold conditions on Saturday night and Sunday****

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

Today

Partly-to-mostly sunny, milder, highs in the lower 60’s; S-SW winds around 5-10 mph  

Tonight

Becoming mainly cloudy, chilly, rain is likely to develop in the wee hours of the morning, lows in the lower 40’s

Saturday

Mainly cloudy with rain in the early morning, snow in the late morning and afternoon with accumulations and the transition period can include sleet, temperatures will drop sharply behind the front to below freezing by day’s end, becoming very windy with gusts possible at 50+ mph by late in the day

Saturday Night             

Gradual clearing skies, very windy with gusts of 50+ mph, quite cold with late night lows in the upper teens

Sunday

Mainly sunny, brisk, cold, lower 40’s

Monday

Partly sunny, milder, near 60 degrees

Tuesday

Mainly sunny, mild, low-to-mid 60’s

Wednesday

Mainly sunny, mild, near 65 degrees

Discussion              

Many ingredients are coming together for a very active Arctic frontal passage this weekend that will include rain transitioning to accumulating snow/sleet on Saturday and high winds and very cold conditions on Saturday night and Sunday. The rain will begin late tonight and continue for awhile on Saturday morning and then transition to snow by the late morning following the passage of the Arctic front. This transition to snow may include some sleet and will will progress from west-to-east across the Mid-Atlantic region with a few inches possible in the metro region. Wind gusts of 50+ mph are possible later Saturday and Saturday night and that kind of intensity raises the possibility of downed tree limbs and power outages in the Mid-Atlantic region. The weather will calm down some by later in the day on Sunday, but it’ll remain much colder-than-normal for this time of year and then a warm up begins on Monday.

Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather