6:00 AM | *****All eyes continue to focus on major weekend winter storm that will have significant impacts over a large part of the nation*****

6-Day forecast for the Philadelphia, PA metro region

Today

Increasing clouds, breezy, still quite cold, but milder than yesterday, highs in the low-to-mid 30’s; S winds around 5-15 mph

Tonight

Mainly cloudy, not nearly as harsh as recent nights, lows in the upper 20’s

Thursday     

Mainly sunny, even milder, windy with gusts to 30 mph, low-to-mid 40’s for afternoon highs

Thursday Night             

Partly cloudy, quite cold, lower 20’s for late night lows

Friday

Partly sunny, breezy, quite cold, lower 30’s

Saturday

Increasing clouds, very cold, chance of snow late in the day or at night, upper teens

Sunday

Mainly cloudy, breezy, very cold, periods of snow, upper teens

Monday

Mainly cloudy, breezy, bitter cold, still may be some snow, lower 20’s

Discussion

The next couple of weeks will feature some of the worst weather winter has to offer with bitter cold conditions at times and a major storm system that can bring a crippling ice event to some areas this weekend and significant snowfall to others. After another day with below-normal temperatures here at mid-week, it’ll turn milder on Thursday, but that warmup will be for a brief time only.

Another Arctic outbreak will spread south to Texas and east to the coast at the end of the week and this air mass will feature some incredible cold across the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest with 30 degrees below zero in some spots. By the end of the week, moisture will be gathering across the south-central states. As this moisture pushes to the north and east, it will encounter this very cold air mass, and the result will be a crippling ice event in many southern states, and significant accumulating snow farther to the north including in the DC-to-Philly-to-NYC corridor.

Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather