7:00 AM | **A strong cold front brings brief downpours to the region during the mid-day hours and there can be a few strong thunderstorms with very gusty winds**

6-Day Forecast

Today

Cloudy, mild with occasional showers from later this morning into the mid-afternoon, some of the rain will come down hard for a brief time, a strong thunderstorm or two is possible and any storm can contain strong wind gusts, highs in the upper 50’s

Tonight

Becoming partly cloudy, turning colder, watch for black ice late, lows near freezing

Saturday

Mostly sunny, still mild, mid-to-upper 50’s

Saturday Night

Mostly cloudy, chilly, mid-to-upper 30’s

Sunday

Mostly cloudy, mild, slight chance for some rain or rain changing to snow late at night, mid 50’s

Monday

Partly sunny, colder, low 40's

Tuesday

Mostly cloudy, cold, chance for some snow at night, upper 30’s

Wednesday

Mostly cloudy, cold, chance for some snow, mid-to-upper 30’s

Discussion

A strong cold front will cross the region today and it will generate some brief downpours along with the possibility of a strong thunderstorm or two containing gusty winds from late morning into mid-afternoon. Temperatures will climb into the 50's ahead of the front, but a cooling trend begins this weekend and intensifies next week. In fact, a very winter-like and cold pattern will re-establish itself next week in the central and eastern U.S. and there will be snow threats as we close out February and head into March.

Video

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