6:00 AM | ****Snow showers later today/tonight...watch for slick spots...intense cold this weekend with powerful and potentially damaging winds...wind chills of well below zero****
Paul Dorian
6-Day forecast for the Washington, D.C. metro region
Today
Increasing clouds, cold, chance of snow showers by the mid-to-late afternoon, highs in the lower 30’s; Light and variable winds
Tonight
Mainly cloudy with evening snow showers likely, maybe even a burst of heavier snow, small accumulations of a coating to an inch or so are possible, watch for slick spots, becoming windy and very cold, late night lows in the lower teens
Saturday
Partly sunny, very windy with gusts to 55 mph, intense cold, maybe a snow shower or two, mid-to-upper teens for highs…dangerously low wind chills of well below zero
Saturday Night
Mainly clear, brutally cold, very windy with gusts to 50 mph, upper single digits for late night lows with dangerously low wind chills of well below zero
Sunday
Mainly sunny, windy, bitter cold, lower 20’s and much lower wind chill values of below zero
Monday
Partly sunny, quite cold, lower 30’s
Tuesday
Mainly sunny, not as cold, near 40 degrees
Wednesday
Mainly cloudy, chilly, middle 40’s
Discussion
Intense cold this weekend with powerful and potentially damaging winds…
The combination of a clipper low pressure system and its associated cold front will produce snow showers in the area later today and tonight and there can be brief heavier snow bursts. Small accumulations are possible on the order of a coating to an inch and there can be slippery spots on the roadways. After the passage of the cold front, an Arctic air mass will plunge into the Mid-Atlantic region from eastern Canada leading to a bitter cold weekend. This Arctic air mass is the real deal, had its origins on the Siberian side of the North Pole, and will not have the usual modifying effects of crossing over the relatively warm Great Lakes. In addition to the bitter cold, biting winds will become a major factor on both weekend days with gusts of up to 55 mph producing dangerously low wind chill levels of well below zero and raising the possibility of power outages in some areas.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather