7:00 AM | **Weekend storm favoring snow accumulations interior Mid-Atlantic...powerful storm next week**
Paul Dorian
6-Day forecast for the Philadelphia, PA metro region
Today
Becoming mainly sunny and quite breezy today after early day clouds, chance for a rain or snow shower, cold, highs in the lower 40’s; NW winds increasing to around 10-20 mph
Tonight
Becoming mainly clear, brisk, quite cold, lows in the lower 20’s
Friday
Mainly sunny with some late day clouds, cold, mid 30’s for afternoon highs
Friday Night
Increasing clouds, cold, mid 20’s for late night lows
Saturday
Mainly cloudy, cold, good chance for snow or snow and ice to arrive during the mid-day or early afternoon hours which is then likely to mix with or change to rain later in the day and rain or a mix continues at night, some snow accumulations are possible before the transition on the order of a coating to 2 inches in the Philly metro region and 2-4 inches in some of the far N/W suburbs, mid-to-upper 30’s
Sunday
Mainly cloudy, cold, chance of some lingering snow and/or rain, mid-to-upper 30’s
Monday
Mainly sunny, cold, upper 30’s
Tuesday
Mainly cloudy, becoming windy and milder, periods of rain and some of the rain can be heavy, there is a chance that the precipitation begins as snow or a mix of snow and ice, near 50 degrees by later in the day
Discussion
The active weather pattern of recent days will continue during the next several days across the eastern half of the nation. One storm will bring wintry precipitation to the Mid-Atlantic region this weekend and then a powerhouse storm can bring heavy rain and strong winds here from Tuesday into Wednesday. The precipitation with the weekend system likely arrives here as snow or a mix of snow and ice around mid-day or early afternoon on Saturday and then it transitions to rain or a mix with small accumulations possible before the changeover. The storm next Tuesday/Wednesday is likely to bring heavy rain here with potentially damaging winds (power outages on the table), and there is a chance that the precipitation starts out as snow or a mix of snow and ice. There are likely to be additional systems to deal by the time we get through the middle of the month in this on-going active weather pattern.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather