6:00 AM | ***Risk of severe weather today with downpours, damaging winds, lightning, hail, tornadoes, power outages...all on the table***

6-Day forecast for the Philadelphia, PA metro region

Today

Mainly cloudy, very windy and quite mild, periods of rain which can be heavy at times, strong-to-severe thunderstorms are possible, highs in the mid-to-upper 60’s; S-SW winds increasing to 15-30 mph; gusts to 45 mph…even higher in thunderstorms

Tonight

Mainly cloudy, windy with gusts to 45 mph or so, turning cold, evening rain showers and a possible strong-to-severe thunderstorm, snow showers possible late, late night lows in the upper 20’s

Tuesday

Partly sunny, much colder-than-normal, windy, chance of a snow shower or two, mid-to-upper 30’s for afternoon highs

Tuesday Night             

Mainly clear, quite breezy, unusually cold, lower 20’s for late night lows

Wednesday

Partly sunny, brisk, still quite cold, upper 30’s for afternoon highs

Thursday

Partly sunny, chilly, upper 40’s

Friday

Partly sunny, milder, mid-to-upper 50’s

Saturday

Partly sunny, mild, chance of showers, middle 50’s

Discussion

Another intense cold front is headed towards the eastern seaboard and it will bring us periods of rain today, heavy at times, and there is an enhanced chance for strong-to-severe thunderstorms...tornadoes are on the table. Winds will be quite strong ahead of the front gusting to 45 mph or so from a southerly direction and they’ll flip to a west-to-northwest direction later tonight following the passage of the front and remain very strong. Much colder air will pour into the Mid-Atlantic region overnight and rain showers could change to snow showers in some areas. Temperatures on Tuesday will be far below-normal for this time of year and the winds will remain quite strong and there can be a couple of snow showers as the “Great Lakes snow machine” gets turned on. The chill sticks around at mid-week with a gradual warmup later in the week.

Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather