6:00 AM | ****Strong cold front barrels through the area later this morning...powerful winds shift to a NW direction following frontal passage and temperatures drop sharply****

6-Day forecast for the Philadelphia, PA metro region

Today

Mainly cloudy with periods of rain into mid-day, maybe a gusty thunderstorm, some of the rain will be heavy at times, snow showers possible later today, very windy today with gusts to 50 mph or so, winds will shift from SW to NW following the frontal passage and temperatures will drop sharply into the 30’s by later in the day from their morning highs in the 50’s

Tonight

Clearing skies, windy, cold, lows in the low-to-mid 20’s

Saturday      

Mainly sunny, cold, upper 30’s for afternoon highs

Saturday Night             

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

Sunday

Mainly sunny, breezy, a bit milder, middle 40’s

Monday

Partly sunny, windy, colder, middle 30’s

Tuesday

Mainly cloudy, cold, chance of snow or a mix of rain and snow, near 40 degrees

Wednesday

Mainly sunny, cold, low-to-mid 40’s

Discussion

A strong cold front will barrel through the region later this morning bringing with it additional heavy rain and maybe even a gusty thunderstorm. Winds will shift from a southwesterly direction this morning to northwesterly for the mid-day and afternoon hours and can gust to 50 mph or so as colder air pushes into the Mid-Atlantic region. Temperatures will drop into the 30’s during the day from the very mild levels in the 50’s reached this morning ahead of the frontal passage. Snow showers are now developing across some of the higher elevation interior locations of the Mid-Atlantic region and a few of these may make their way into the immediate I-95 corridor. The weather will settle down for the weekend with dry conditions expected on both days and a moderate chill in the air.

Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather