7:00 AM | **More rain later today into tonight...snow showers or even a period of steadier snow on Friday/Friday night...coldest air yet this season from later this weekend into early next week**
Paul Dorian
6-Day forecast for the Philadelphia, PA metro region
Today
Mainly cloudy with rain developing during the mid-to-late afternoon hours, chilly, highs in the upper 40’s; S-SE winds around 5 mph
Tonight
Mainly cloudy some residual rain likely during the evening hours, becoming breezy and turning colder late, lows in the low-to-mid 30’s
Thursday
Mainly sunny, windy, cold, low-to-mid 40’s for afternoon highs
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, cold, upper 20’s for late night lows
Friday
Mainly cloudy, cold, chance of snow showers, maybe even a period of steadier snow, upper 30’s
Saturday
Partly sunny, cold, windy, chance of snow showers early, low-to-mid 30’s
Sunday
Mainly sunny, brisk, very cold, mid-to-upper 20’s
Monday
Mainly sunny, still quite cold, near 30 degrees
Discussion
Another low pressure system and its associated cold front will bring more rain to the Philly metro region from later this afternoon into late tonight and a slightly colder air mass will follow for the day on Thursday. On Friday, a “clipper” low pressure system will drop to the south and east from the Great Lakes region at the same time low pressure starts to form over the western Atlantic Ocean. These two systems may “link up” in time to produce snow showers in the region from later Friday into early Saturday and perhaps even a period of steadier snow...small accumulations cannot be ruled out on the order of a coating to a couple of inches.
As the low pressure system intensifies on Saturday and pulls off to the north and east of here, the coldest air of the season so far will pour into the Mid-Atlantic region for the latter part of the weekend and early part of next week. Temperatures on Sunday will likely be confined to the 20’s for highs and the lowest temperatures so far this season should take place late Sunday night/early Monday morning with 10 degrees a possibility for overnight lows in some suburban locations.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather