7:00 AM | ***"Pipe-busting", "nostril-freezing", painful cold from tonight into Wednesday; the mother of all Arctic fronts has passed through the region and will usher in one of the coldest air mass in twenty years***
Paul Dorian
6-Day Forecast
Today
Cloudy this morning with occasional rain showers and gusty winds, partial sunshine this afternoon with a snow shower possible, temperatures peak in the early morning way up in the 50's and drop sharply for the rest of the day reaching below freezing by nightfall
Tonight
Extreme cold with mostly clear skies, lows drop to between zero and five below with winds chills well below zero
Tuesday
One of the coldest days in years…painful cold with ineffective sunshine, temperatures struggle to reach 10 degrees with wind chills as low as twenty below
Tuesday Night
More extreme cold with mostly clear skies and lows in the low single digits
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, still very cold, but not quite as harsh, low-to-mid 20’s
Thursday
Mostly cloudy with some snow possible at night, cold, mid 30’s
Friday
Mostly cloudy, cold, chance for some freezing rain or snow early, upper 30’s
Saturday
Mostly cloudy, milder, mid-to-upper 40’s
Discussion
Talk about weather whiplash...the mother of all Arctic fronts has passed through the region and temperatures will drop nearly 60 degrees in the Philadelphia metro region over the next 18 to 24 hours. Temperatures spiked early this morning to 59 degrees at Philly Intl Airport just ahead of the Arctic front and will drop sharply for the rest of the day as one of the coldest air masses in twenty years floods the Mid-Atlantic region. The painful cold will last from tonight into Wednesday and temperatures will go below zero in a widespread area of the Mid-Atlantic region overnight and again late tomorrow night - and that can even include some of the big cities along the I-95 corridor. In fact, the last time New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC were below zero at the same time was January 19th, 1994 and there is a slight possibility of that to happen by late tonight. As we transition later this week from the brutal cold to milder conditions, there will likely be a period of snow and ice on Thursday night and early Friday. By the weekend, much milder conditions should return to the Mid-Atlantic region and that thaw could last for a week or so, but more big Arctic outbreaks are coming by the middle of the month.
Video
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