6:00 AM | ****Some snow later Tuesday/Tuesday night...snow showers later Friday...intensely cold this weekend****

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

Today

Mainly sunny, cold, breezy, highs in the lower 30’s with much lower wind chills; NW winds around 10-20 mph

Tonight

Partly cloudy, bitter cold, lows in the mid-to-upper teens

Tuesday       

Becoming mainly cloudy, cold, chance of snow late, middle 30’s for afternoon highs

Tuesday Night             

Mainly cloudy, quite cold, chance of snow, middle 20’s for late night lows

Wednesday

Becoming partly sunny, cold, lower 30’s

Thursday

Mainly sunny, quite cold, near 30 degrees

Friday

Becoming mainly cloudy, cold, chance of PM snow showers, middle 30’s

Saturday

Partly sunny, windy, very cold, lower 20’s

Discussion

It remains quite cold around here today and it will for the rest of the week and then intensely cold air is destined to arrive for the upcoming weekend. The pattern becomes somewhat active as well with a couple chances of snow in the Mid-Atlantic region. Weak low pressure will push across the area with some snow from Tuesday night into early Wednesday…small accumulations are likely on the order of a coating to an inch or two. Later in the week, a strong clipper system and its associated cold front can bring snow showers to the area later Friday…perhaps even a snow squall. That clipper system will usher in another brutally cold Arctic air mass to the Mid-Atlantic region for the first full weekend of February with strong winds adding to the misery.

Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather