6:00 AM | *Quite mild for the Phillies opening game late this afternoon...rain later tonight into tomorrow morning...maybe a thunderstorm...a chilly weekend*

6-Day forecast for the Philadelphia, PA metro region

Today

Opening Day for the Phillies!

Clouds give way to partial sunshine, quite mild, becoming windy, cannot completely rule out an isolated afternoon shower, highs in the lower 70’s (normal high at PHL is 56 degrees); S-SW winds increasing to around 10-20 mph

Tonight

Mainly cloudy, cool, periods of rain late, maybe a thunderstorm, lows near 50 degrees

Friday

Mainly cloudy with lingering showers in the morning, windy, cooler, temperatures holding steady in the morning and dropping into the 40’s during the afternoon

Friday Night             

Becoming partly cloudy, brisk, cold, maybe an early evening shower, upper 20’s for late night lows

Saturday

Mainly sunny, breezy, cold, low-to-mid 40’s  

Sunday

Mainly sunny, chilly, near 50 degrees

Monday

Partly sunny, mild, upper 50’s

Tuesday

Mainly cloudy, even milder, chance of showers, middle 60’s

Discussion

The opener for the Phillies is scheduled for 4:15pm later today and it’ll become quite mild and breezy for their first game with high temperatures in the lower 70’s. A strong cold front closes in on the area later tonight and it’ll bring us periods of rain, maybe a thunderstorm, from later tonight into tomorrow morning. On the back side of the front, winds will shift to a north-to-northwest direction on Friday leading to a colder-than-normal weekend in the Mid-Atlantic region. Temperatures on Saturday will likely do no better than the low-to-mid 40’s for afternoon highs despite plenty of sunshine and it stays on the cool side to close out the weekend. Much milder weather returns to the Mid-Atlantic region during the early part of next week as strong high pressure ridging that has been parked over the western US in recent days slides in this direction.

Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather