6:00 AM | ***A brutally cold day to end the work week with afternoon temperatures confined to the teens***
Paul Dorian
6-Day forecast for the Philadelphia, PA metro region
Today
Sun followed by clouds, breezy, bitter cold, highs in the middle teens with below zero wind chills; NW winds around 5-15 mph
Tonight
Partly cloudy, absolutely frigid, lows at or slightly below zero
Saturday
Partly sunny, breezy, brutally cold, upper teens for afternoon highs with below zero wind chills
Saturday Night
Mainly cloudy, windy, biting cold, slight chance of snow, middle single digits for late night lows
Sunday
Partly sunny, windy, still very cold, lower 20’s
Monday
Mainly sunny, cold, but not as harsh, upper 20’s
Tuesday
Partly sunny, cold, near 30 degrees
Wednesday
Increasing clouds, quite cold, chance of snow late in the day or at night, upper 20’s
Discussion
It remains brutally cold around here today with temperatures struggling to make it past the middle teens for afternoon highs and overnight lows will fall to near zero in many areas. In fact, this could set a record for the lowest high temperature ever recorded on this date besting the record of 18 degrees set in 1965 at Philly Airport. The bitter cold conditions continue through the weekend in the Mid-Atlantic region and will extend all the way down to southern Florida where Sunday morning temperatures could be near freezing in Miami. In addition to the continuing cold, a big weather story will be the explosive cyclogenesis that’ll take place as the central pressure of a low-pressure system drops dramatically between later Saturday and early Sunday. Low pressure will move near the Carolina coastline by later Saturday and then it’ll get juiced up by the phasing of a northern stream wave of energy and a southern wave. The biggest impact from this weekend storm will likely be across southern Virginia, the Carolinas, and eastern New England can get hit hard as well...all locations with snow and strong winds. The Philly metro region will not go completely unscathed as winds will pick up noticeably from later Saturday into Sunday and there can be some snow across far eastern sections.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather