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 Washington, D.C. metro region

Today

Mainly cloudy with periods of rain in the morning, maybe a gusty thunderstorm, some of the rain will be heavy at times, a snow shower is possible in the afternoon, 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 today from their morning highs in the 50’s

Tonight

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

Saturday      

Mainly sunny, cold, low-to-mid 40’s for afternoon highs

Saturday Night             

Partly cloudy, breezy, cold, mid-to-upper 30’s for late night lows

Sunday

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

Monday

Partly sunny, windy, colder, upper 30’s

Tuesday

Mainly cloudy, cold, chance of rain, near 45 degrees

Wednesday

Partly sunny, mild, near 50 degrees

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