Icy and rainy weather is set to arrive in the D.C. area Monday, before a winter storm makes its way to the region later in the week. Storm Team4 Meteorologist Somara Theodore said the first round of rain and wintry mix will start to push into the area from the southwest by lunchtime Monday. The icy conditions will be worst in the Shenandoah Valley, which is under a Winter Storm Watch from 1 p.m. Monday until 10 a.m. Tuesday.
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Theodore said temperatures will top out in the upper 30s on Monday, with the wintry mix turning to mostly rain and covering more of the D.C. area later in the afternoon. D.C. and the surrounding counties will have a chance for freezing rain Monday night into Tuesday morning. Icy roads will be a concern Tuesday morning along the I-81 corridor and in the Northwest Suburbs of D.C., Theodore said. Conditions will dry out by Tuesday afternoon and the region will brace for a potential winter storm that could start Wednesday night into Thursday morning. Theodore said it’s possible that high pressure to the north will work as a blocking agent and suppress the incoming storm to the south, but if the storm does become well defined and slip farther north, the D.C. area could see a decent amount of snow. Right now, Theodore said the forecast is leaning toward lower snow totals, but she said that’s subject to change.
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Forecast:
Tonight:
- Cloudy and cold with a small chance for flurries
- Lows: low to mid 30s
Monday:
- Rain in the D.C. metro area to start and light snow chance in NW suburbs
- Monday night freezing rain could be an issue
- Highs: 30s to around 40
Tuesday:
- Freezing rain chance to start then just rain tapering off
- Highs: low to mid 40s
Wednesday:
- Partly sunny
- Chance for a few light snow showers late night
- Mostly Cloudy
- Highs: low 40s
