7:00 AM | ****Heavy rain and strong winds from later today into Wednesday...flooding and power outages on the table with this powerful storm system****
Paul Dorian
6-Day forecast for the Washington, D.C. metro region
Today
Mainly cloudy with rain developing by mid-morning, heavy at times during the mid-day and afternoon hours, chance for a PM thunderstorm, watch out for localized flooding, becoming much milder and increasingly windy, highs near 60 degrees; E-SE winds increasing to 20-30 mph; gusts later in the day to 40 mph
Tonight
Rain, heavy at times in the evening, chance for a thunderstorm, watch out for localized flooding, strong and potentially damaging wind gusts to 50 mph, chilly, lows late in the lower 40’s
Wednesday
Becoming partly sunny, chilly, still very windy with gusts to 40 mph, chance of rain showers, upper 40’s for afternoon highs
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, windy, colder, lower 30’s for late night lows
Thursday
Mainly sunny, breezy, chilly, near 50 degrees
Friday
Increasing clouds, chilly, chance of rain in the afternoon and continuing at night heavy at times, increasingly windy, lower 50’s
Saturday
Becoming partly sunny, cool, still windy, chance of rain showers, near 50 degrees
Sunday
Partly sunny, windy, colder, upper 30’s
Discussion
A powerful storm system will bring heavy rain to the DC metro region from mid-day through much of tonight and significant flooding is on the table. Some spots can receive as much as 2-3 inches of rain and this will be on top of already well-saturated grounds from multiple heavy rain events in recent weeks. In addition to the heavy rainfall, winds will become increasingly strong with potentially damaging gusts to 50 mph or so raising the possibility of broken limbs, downed trees and numerous power outages. Another significant storm system can produce similar conditions around here from late Friday into early Saturday (i.e., heavy rain and strong winds). A third storm system threatens the Mid-Atlantic region during the first half of next week and this time snow will be on the table.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather