7:00 AM | **More rain later today into tonight...rain/snow showers possible on Friday...snow showers on Friday night...coldest air yet later this weekend into early next week**
Paul Dorian
6-Day forecast for the Washington, D.C. metro region
Today
Mainly cloudy with rain developing during the early-to-mid afternoon hours, cooler than yesterday, highs in the lower 50’s; SE winds around 5-10 mph
Tonight
Mainly cloudy with some residual rain likely during the evening hours, becoming breezy and turning colder late, lows in the middle 30’s
Thursday
Mainly sunny, windy, cold, low-to-mid 40’s for afternoon highs
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, cold, near 30 degrees for late night lows
Friday
Mainly cloudy, cold, chance of afternoon rain and/or snow showers, lower 40’s; snow showers possible on Friday night
Saturday
Mainly sunny, cold, breezy, mid-to-upper 30’s
Sunday
Mainly sunny, brisk, quite cold, near 30 degrees
Monday
Mainly sunny, still quite cold, lower 30’s
Discussion
Another low pressure system and its associated cold front will bring more rain to the DC metro region from the early-to-mid afternoon to later 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 rain and/or snow showers on Friday and likely snow showers on Friday night.
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 30 degrees for afternoon highs and the lowest temperatures so far this season should take place late Sunday night/early Monday morning with the lower teens a possibility for overnight lows in some suburban locations.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather