Colder air moved into the Mid-Atlantic region on Monday following the passage of a strong cold front and temperatures will remain below-normal today despite plenty of sunshine. It’ll turn a bit milder on Wednesday and then quite mild by Thursday afternoon with the Orioles home opener scheduled for 3:05 PM (lower 70’s)...Nationals open up in Chicago. The next front will bring showers here from late Thursday night into Friday morning and it’ll turn colder again as we head into the upcoming weekend.
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Following the passage of a strong cold front, today will turn out much colder than yesterday and there will be a stiff N-NW wind developing that can gust to 30 mph or so. The chilly air mass will stick around on Tuesday though the winds will slacken off and then high pressure brings us milder temperatures at mid-week. Another frontal system will likely bring us more unsettled weather later into the week with more chilly air to follow as we end the week and begin the upcoming weekend.
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Clouds will increase later today and showers are likely tonight as a frontal system heads this way from our northwest…maybe a thunderstorm. The weekend will turn milder and the next chance of showers will come late Sunday night with the arrival of another system…maybe a thunderstorm. Colder air returns early next week following the passage of the next frontal system.
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A warming trend will begin today and continue through the weekend with high temperatures this afternoon in the middle 50’s and then likely climbing to the low-to-mid 70’s on Sunday. There will be a couple of systems headed our way during the next few days which can bring showers to the region on Friday night and again on Sunday night. Colder air returns early next week following the passage of a cold front.
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The chill sticks around for another day in the Mid-Atlantic region, but it’ll be much easier to take as winds will be pretty much non-existent in the area with high pressure nearby. Temperatures will rebound well up into the 50’s by the end of the week and the second half of the weekend should feature 70+ degrees for highs. There are a couple of weak systems heading our way for the late week and upcoming weekend and each can bring some shower activity to the region.
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A strong cold front passed through the region late last evening and ushered in a colder-than-normal air mass for mid-March and temperatures today will struggle to climb past 40 degrees. The front produced some high wind gusts in the area with 68 mph being recorded at Reagan National Airport (DCA) and 66 mph at Dulles Airport (IAD). The DCA observation of 68 mph was the highest wind gust recorded there since May 2019, and the third highest seen during the past 30 years. The winds will remain rather strong adding to the chill in the air and there can be a snow shower that makes its way into the I-95 corridor. It stays chilly at mid-week, but temperatures rebound by the end of the week with high temperatures back up in the 60’s.
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There is an unusually high risk of severe weather in parts of the Mid-Atlantic region from today into the late evening hours with numerous ingredients coming together. The severe weather risk will include all the following weather parameters: downpours, localized flooding, damaging winds, lightning, hail, isolated tornadoes and power outages are all on the table. Multiple rounds of showers and thunderstorms are likely into the late evening hours and severe weather can develop with any of these bands from mid-day on through the late evening. Much colder air pours into the Mid-Atlantic region in the overnight hours and temperatures will be well below normal on Tuesday and lows tomorrow night can bottom out near the 20-degree mark in some suburban locations. The Great Lakes “snow machine” will be turned on as well on Tuesday with numerous snow bands likely just downstream and a few snow showers can make it into the I-95 corridor.
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An unusually high risk of severe weather…
Another intense cold front is headed towards the eastern seaboard and it will bring us periods of rain today, heavy at times, watch for localized flooding, and there is an unusually high chance for strong-to-severe thunderstorms...isolated 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 during the overnight hours and there can be a few 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 a few snow showers around as the “Great Lakes snow machine” gets turned on. The chill sticks around at mid-week with a gradual warmup later in the week.
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An intense storm system will develop later this weekend, and it will have an impact over a large part of the nation in the Sunday/Monday/Tuesday time period ranging from blizzard conditions to severe weather including the risk of tornadoes. The risk of severe weather in the Mid-Atlantic region will be unusually high from Monday into Monday night. The heaviest snow band is likely to extend from Minnesota to Wisconsin to the upper part of Michigan where 1-2 feet can fall and the severe weather threat will exist on Sunday/Sunday night across the MS, TN, Ohio Valleys and then shift east on Monday/Monday night from the Mid-Atlantic region to the Carolinas. Arctic air with well below-normal temperatures will pour into the northeastern states by Tuesday and lake-effect snow bands are likely to set up just downstream of the Great Lakes.
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A strong cold front passed through the region on Thursday and it’ll remain chilly and increasingly windy as we end the work week with some sunshine followed by increasing clouds. The weekend starts off on the cool, breezy side and then clouds will increase on Sunday ahead of the next cold front. That next cold front will be associated with a powerful Great Lakes storm system and be intense likely resulting in heavy rain and strong winds around here from later Sunday night into Monday night and there is the potential of strong-to-severe thunderstorm activity. Much colder air will follow the cold frontal passage for Tuesday and Wednesday.
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