6:00 AM | ***A brutally cold day to end the work week with afternoon temperatures generally confined to the teens***
Paul Dorian
6-Day forecast for the Washington, D.C. metro region
Today
Sun followed by clouds, breezy, bitter cold, highs near 20 degrees with below zero wind chills; NW winds around 5-15 mph
Tonight
Partly cloudy, frigid, lows in the middle single digits
Saturday
Mainly cloudy, becoming quite breezy, brutally cold, near 20 degrees for afternoon highs with below zero wind chills
Saturday Night
Mainly cloudy, windy, biting cold, slight chance of snow, near 10 degrees for late night lows
Sunday
Becoming partly sunny, windy, quite cold, low-to-mid 20’s
Monday
Mainly sunny, cold, but not as harsh, lower 30’s
Tuesday
Partly sunny, cold, middle 30’s
Wednesday
Increasing clouds, cold, chance of snow late in the day or at night, lower 30’s
Discussion
It remains brutally cold around here today with temperatures struggling to make it past the upper teens for afternoon highs and overnight lows again will fall to single digits in most areas. 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. Another big story will be the 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 DC 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 eastern sections.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather