6:00 AM | ***Chance of snow late tonight and tomorrow morning...chance of snow on Sunday...bitter cold here on Monday night, Tuesday, Tuesday night***

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

Today

Sun followed by increasing clouds, breezy, cold, highs in the mid-to-upper 30’s; W-NW winds around 5-15 mph

Tonight

Mainly cloudy, cold, chance of snow after midnight, lows near 30 degrees

Saturday      

Mainly cloudy, cold, chance for snow in the early morning, chance of rain or a bit of snow and rain during the mid-day and afternoon hours, low-to-mid 40’s for afternoon highs

Saturday Night             

Mainly cloudy, cold, chance for a mix of snow and rain, snow, upper 20’s for late night lows

Sunday

Mainly cloudy, colder, chance of snow, low-to-mid 30’s

M.L.K. Day

Partly sunny, breezy, cold, mid-to-upper 30’s; lower teens at night

Tuesday

Mainly sunny, breezy, bitter cold, mid-to-upper 20’s; lower teens at night

Wednesday

Mainly sunny, quite cold, middle 30’s

Discussion

An Arctic air mass pushed into the Mid-Atlantic region on Thursday and it stays quite cold today with an increase in cloud cover as an upper-level disturbance heads in this direction. This system can produce some snow in the area later tonight and on Saturday morning and perhaps a mix of rain and snow on Saturday afternoon...small accumulations are possible. Another system will try to slide up along the east coast on Sunday and it can bring some snow to the DC metro region during the second half of the weekend...additional snow accumulations are possible. More Arctic air is on tap for the Mid-Atlantic region during the first half of next week with bitter cold conditions expected here on Monday night, Tuesday, and Tuesday night. The overall pattern stays very cold through the second half of the month in the eastern US and it can include some extreme cold.

Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather