7:00 AM | *Milder conditions arrive just in time for Thanksgiving Day...windy and cold again on Friday*

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

Today

Partly sunny, a bit milder than recent days, highs in the mid 50’s; S-SW winds around 5 mph

Tonight

Mainly cloudy, chilly, showers possible late…not a heavy rain event, lows in the upper 30’s

Friday

Partly sunny, cold and becoming windy with gusts past 35 mph, mid 40’s for afternoon highs           

Friday Night             

Mainly clear, quite cold, blustery, mid-to-upper 20’s for late night lows           

Saturday

Mainly sunny, cold, not as windy, low-to-mid 40’s

Sunday

Mainly cloudy, cold, chance of snow and/or rain showers, low-to-mid 40’s

Monday

Partly sunny, cold, chance of snow showers, low-to-mid 40’s

Tuesday

Mainly sunny, cold, upper 40’s

Discussion              

Thanksgiving Day will feature a warm up in the eastern states as a low-level southwesterly flow of air develops on the back side of high pressure off to the east.  This warm up will be rather short-lived, however, as a strong cold front pushes through by early Friday.  There can be a few showers with the frontal passage late tonight and early tomorrow, but this will not be a heavy rain event.  The winds will become quite strong on Friday with gusts past 35 mph to go along with the colder-than-normal conditions. The weekend begins on the cold and dry side and then attention will turn upstream for the next in a series of disturbances that will drop south and east out of Canada into the US.  The late weekend disturbance will be rather potent and it will come with a reinforcing cold air mass for the eastern states.  There is the chance that this upper-level feature will be able to spawn the formation of surface low pressure near enough to the east coast for some snow and/or rain to fall across portions of the Mid-Atlantic/NE US in the Sunday/Monday time frame. 

Meteorologist Paul Dorian