6:15 AM | ****Uncomfortably warm and humid today and tomorrow with strong-to-severe storms a threat on both days...high heat and humidity from Sunday through Wednesday****
Paul Dorian
6-Day forecast for the Washington, D.C. metro region
Today
Mainly cloudy this morning with areas of fog, becoming partly sunny in the afternoon and much warmer, very humid, good chance of PM showers and thunderstorms, any rain that falls can be heavy and some of the thunderstorms can reach strong-to-severe levels, highs near 90 degrees; S-SW winds increasing to 5-15 mph
Tonight
Mainly cloudy, mild, chance of showers and thunderstorms, any rain that falls can be heavy and some of the thunderstorms can reach strong-to-severe levels, lows not far from 75 degrees
Thursday
Partly sunny, breezy, hot, humid, chance of showers and PM thunderstorms, any rain that falls can be heavy and some of the thunderstorms can reach strong-to-severe levels, low-to-mid 90’s for afternoon highs
Thursday Night
Mainly cloudy, mild, muggy, chance of showers and thunderstorms, any rain that falls can be heavy and some of the thunderstorms can reach strong-to-severe levels, mid-to-upper 60’s for late night lows
Friday
Mainly sunny, quite warm, middle 80’s
Saturday
Mainly sunny, very warm, near 90 degrees
Sunday
Mainly sunny, hot, mid-to-upper 90’s
Monday
Mainly sunny, very hot, upper 90’s
Discussion
After a cool start to the week, it’ll turn much warmer for today and Thursday in the Mid-Atlantic region and humidity will be a noticeable factor as well. The warm-up comes ahead of a strong frontal system which can produce strong-to-severe thunderstorms around here this afternoon and additional strong-to-severe thunderstorms are likely later tomorrow.
After a sunny and warm day to end the work week, very strong high pressure ridging in the upper part of the atmosphere will push eastward this weekend. This system will end up directly overhead in the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast US by the early part of next week and likely stay put until at least the middle of next week. As a result, high heat and humidity is on the way for the northeastern states in the period from later this weekend into the middle of next week and 100-degrees is on the table.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather