12:30 PM | **Snow winds down later today...possible brightening skies late...an Arctic blast for the weekend**

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

This afternoon

Occasional snow showers through mid-afternoon with possible brightening skies by day’s end, cold, total accumulations on the order of 2-5 inches, highs in the lower 30’s; E-NE winds around 5-10 mph

Tonight

Chance of evening snow showers then becoming partly cloudy, windy and very cold, lows in the middle-to-upper teens with even lower wind chills

Saturday

Mainly sunny, windy with gusts to 35 mph, very cold, mid 20’s for afternoon highs with even lower wind chills

Saturday Night             

Mainly clear, very cold, breezy, late night lows in the upper teens

Sunday

Mainly sunny, quite cold, blustery, near 30 degrees

Monday

Mainly sunny, cold, mid-to-upper 30’s

Tuesday

Partly sunny, not as cold, mid 40’s

Wednesday

Mainly cloudy, milder, chance of rain, mid-to-upper 40’s

Discussion              

Occasional snow or snow showers will wind down this afternoon and there can be brightening skies by day’s end…general final accumulation amounts of 2-5 inches. An Arctic air mass will follow this system with some very cold conditions for the weekend, but the chill will slowly fade away during the early part of next week. In fact, rain may return to the forecast by the middle and latter parts of next week as a “January thaw” develops and takes us to the end of the month.

Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather