7:00 AM | ****Heavy rain tomorrow afternoon and night with significant flooding on the table...strong and potentially damaging winds with numerous power outages a threat****

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

Today

Mainly sunny, chilly, highs near 45 degrees; W-NW winds around 5-10 mph

Tonight

Increasing clouds, cold, lows in the lower 30’s

Tuesday

Mainly cloudy, becoming milder, strong and potentially damaging winds, periods of rain, heavy at times, chance for a late day thunderstorm, watch for localized flooding, near 60 degrees for afternoon highs

Tuesday Night             

Rain, heavy at times during the evening hours, chance for a thunderstorm, watch for localized flooding, strong and potentially damaging winds, chilly, mid 40’s for late night lows

Wednesday

Becoming partly sunny, chilly, still very windy, chance of rain showers, upper 40’s

Thursday

Mainly sunny, chilly, upper 40’s

Friday

Increasing clouds, chilly, chance of rain late in the day and at night, increasingly windy, upper 40’s

Saturday

Partly sunny, windy, chilly, chance of rain, lower 50’s

Discussion              

A powerful storm system will bring heavy rain to the DC metro region tomorrow afternoon and night and significant flooding is on the table. Some areas can receive a few inches of rain during this upcoming event and this will be on top of already well-saturated grounds from recent heavy rain storms. In addition to the heavy rain, this storm will feature strong and potentially damaging winds that raises the possibility of numerous power outages in the Mid-Atlantic region from later tomorrow into Wednesday. On the front side of the storm, east-to-southeast winds can gust past 50 mph and on the back side (Wednesday), they can gust past 40 mph from a west-to-southwest direction potentially resulting in some downed trees or broken limbs. Another significant storm system can produce similar conditions around here late from late Friday into Saturday.

Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather