6:00 AM | **Winds pick up noticeably today...moderately cold for the remainder of the week...still monitoring late weekend storm threat**

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

Today

Mainly sunny, becoming windy, chilly, highs in the middle 40’s; W-NW winds increasing to 10-20 mph; gusts to 30 mph

Tonight

Partly cloudy, quite breezy, cold, lows in the upper 20’s

Thursday     

Mainly sunny, windy, colder, upper 30’s for afternoon highs

Thursday Night             

Partly cloudy, cold, near 25 degrees for late night lows

Friday

Mainly sunny, cold, near 40 degrees

Saturday

Sun followed by clouds, chilly, upper 40’s

Sunday

Mainly cloudy, cold, chance of PM rain and/or snow, lower 40’s

Monday

Partly sunny, chilly, chance of AM rain, upper 40’s

Discussion

A cold front will pass through the area later today and its passage will ensure moderately cold conditions for the remainder of the week and weekend. In addition, the winds will pick up today with gusts to 30 mph or so and it’ll stay quite breezy on Thursday as well to go along with the moderately cold conditions. Looking ahead, a storm system will trek across the southern states this weekend and it can impact the Mid-Atlantic region from later Sunday into Monday…potentially with a mixed bag of precipitation and accumulating snow cannot be ruled out. Following the passage of that storm system, a milder weather pattern will kick into gear next week across the northeastern part of the country. One final note, yesterday marked the 17th day in a row with at least 2” of snow on the ground at DCA…the longest such stretch in 36 years.

Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather