D.C.-area forecast: Cold and calm today, then wet tomorrow before an Arctic onslaught - The Washington Post

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A somewhat subjective standing of the day’s weather, connected a standard of 0 to 10.

6/10: Too high, you say, for sunny but chilly 40s? Just you hold for what’s to come.

  • Today: Mostly sunny and cold, airy winds. Highs: Low to mid-40s.
  • Tonight: Increasing clouds, wintry premix late? Lows: Upper 20s to mid-30s.
  • Tomorrow: Early premix northbound and west? Rain, dense astatine times. Highs: 40s.

Today is the time to hole for the bitter acold and upwind arriving Friday and lasting done the weekend, particularly since time looks similar a rainy day. It’s not precisely lukewarm today, with highs lone successful the 40s, but it’s not terrible, with mostly sunny skies and airy winds. Our northbound and westbound suburbs could spot a interaction of wintry premix aboriginal time greeting earlier changing to rain, past aboriginal Friday is erstwhile the Arctic beforehand comes through, sending america into the heavy frost for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Today (Wednesday): Another chilly 1 retired determination arsenic we commencement from lows this greeting successful the debased 20s to adjacent 30. Plenty of sunshine does the champion it can, lifting day highs to the debased to mid-40s with airy winds. Confidence: High

Tonight: Clouds are connected the summation this evening, and past skies go mostly cloudy overnight, arsenic debased unit develops to our south. Light rainfall oregon a wintry premix could marque it into our confederate and occidental suburbs by 4 a.m. oregon so. Overnight lows scope from the precocious 20s to mid-30s. Confidence: Medium-High

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Tomorrow (Thursday): A little play of wintry premix is possible, chiefly northbound and westbound of D.C., earlier 9 a.m. oregon so, but immoderate important icy concerns should beryllium confined to northbound of Frederick and westbound of Leesburg. For the metro area, it turns into a rainy day, with rainfall expanding successful sum during the greeting and dense astatine times done the day into the evening. Afternoon temperatures should emergence good into the 40s arsenic winds crook breezy from the southeast precocious day into evening. Confidence: Medium

Tomorrow night: The rainfall moves retired from westbound to eastbound during the evening hours, but skies stay cloudy done the night. Temperatures hover successful the mid-40s to debased 50s acknowledgment to a comparatively mild breeze from the south. Confidence: Medium

Gusty rainfall showers travel done aboriginal Friday, betwixt astir 6 a.m. and noon, perchance ending arsenic snowfall showers. Can’t regularisation retired a airy coating connected grass, particularly northbound and westbound of D.C. The main communicative is crashing temperatures and gusty winds. Most of america commencement the time successful the 40s, but we’re successful the 20s to adjacent 30 by astir lunchtime, and successful the teens to adjacent 20 by precocious day oregon evening with clearing skies. Wind gusts from the west, mostly successful the 30-40 mph scope with a fewer gusts to astir 50 mph possible, should adust things retired reasonably well. But immoderate remaining bedewed spots volition surely frost implicit (what we telephone a “flash freeze”) during the day into evening. Confidence: Medium

Friday night winds proceed to gust adjacent oregon past 30 mph with mostly wide skies. Overnight lows plummet to the precocious azygous digits to midteens, with upwind chills down to the azygous digits to arsenic debased arsenic astir minus-5 degrees. Confidence: Medium-High

Christmas weekend is partially to mostly sunny and perfectly frigid. Both days commencement with greeting lows successful the precocious azygous digits to midteens, earlier struggling to day highs successful the 20s to adjacent 30. Saturday winds, gusting from the westbound astir 20-30 mph, support upwind chills successful the azygous digits and teens each time long. Not arsenic windy connected Sunday, but inactive capable of a breeze to support upwind chills from rising past the teens to adjacent 20. Confidence: Medium-High

High temperatures should retrieve to the 30s to adjacent 40 Monday and Tuesday.

A regular appraisal of the imaginable for astatine slightest 1 inch of snowfall successful the adjacent week, connected a 0-10 scale.

1/10 (): As the Arctic beforehand blasts done the country aboriginal Friday, rainfall showers could crook to snowfall showers earlier ending. We usually don’t spot accumulation successful situations similar this, but can’t regularisation retired a airy coating connected grass, particularly northbound and westbound of D.C.

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