6:15 AM | ***A very wet end to 2024...colder for Thursday and Friday...even colder this weekend...snow chance early next week***

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

Today

Increasing clouds today with rain likely by mid-afternoon, there can be a late day thunderstorm, some of the rain can be heavy, breezy, mild, highs in the mid-to-upper 50’s; SE winds around 5-15 mph

Tonight

Mainly cloudy, chilly, occasional rain, maybe an evening thunderstorm, some of the rain can be heavy, lows in the lower 40’s

Wednesday

Becoming mainly sunny, windy, colder, upper 40’s for afternoon highs

Wednesday Night             

Partly cloudy, breezy, cold, near 30 degrees for late night lows

Thursday

Mainly sunny, breezy, cold, near 40 degrees

Friday

Partly sunny, cold, near 40 degrees

Saturday

Mainly sunny, colder, lower 30’s

Sunday

Increasing clouds, cold, low-to-mid 30’s; chance of snow on Sunday night or Monday

Discussion

Low pressure will bring more rain to the region from later today into tonight and there can be a strong thunderstorm mixed into the picture. Moderately cold air will follow for Thursday and Friday on the heels of a mid-week cold frontal passage. It’ll turn even colder this weekend as our long anticipated pattern change to much colder-than-normal conditions becomes better established. This pattern change to colder weather for the central and eastern states will be quite active as well and there may be some snow in the DC-to-Philly-to-NYC corridor by early next week. Bitter cold Arctic air could be in the cards across much of the nation by later next week and a second storm threat is possible as well.

Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather