7:00 AM | ****Heavy rain and powerful winds from tonight into early Friday…power outages on the table…much colder air mass blasts into the region on Friday**** — Perspecta Weather

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

Today

Mainly cloudy, becoming very windy and much milder, periods of rain mainly after noon, some of the rain can become heavy at times by the end of the afternoon and there can be a late day thunderstorm, highs late in the day near 60 degrees

Tonight

Periods of rain, heavy at times, a possible thunderstorm, breezy, turning much colder towards morning with a brief changeover to sleet and/or snow possible, watch for icy spots towards daybreak, low-to-mid 30’s for lows near daybreak

Friday

Breezy and much colder with partial sunshine, maybe a couple of snow showers, temperatures drop through the day from early morning highs reaching the 20’s by late afternoon

Friday Night

Mainly clear, quite cold, near 20 degrees for late night lows

Saturday

Mainly sunny, very cold, near 35 degrees

Sunday

Mainly sunny, still quite chilly, lower 40’s

Monday

Mainly cloudy, chilly, chance of rain and/or snow showers, mid 40’s

Tuesday

Mainly sunny, breezy, colder, upper 30’s

Discussion

A powerful cold front will barrel towards the eastern seaboard from later today into early Friday and it’ll bring some wild weather to the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast US. Ahead of the front later, heavy rains, possible thunderstorms and potentially damaging winds will develop raising the prospects for localized flooding and power outages. It’ll become much milder as well today with temperatures soaring to the 60 degree mark by late in the day in the DC metro region. On the back side of the front, temperatures will plunge on Friday from their early morning highs to the 20’s by later in the afternoon. Any standing water on untreated surfaces that is left behind by the heavy rain event could freeze-up in a hurry early Friday as temperatures take a plunge. The cold air mass will stick around into the weekend with temperatures on Saturday struggling to reach the freezing mark.

Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Perspecta, Inc.
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