DC area forecast: On the cold side until weekend warm-up

Skies are expected to be mostly sunny as you head out to work and school today.

Friday: Mostly sunny in the morning…then becoming mostly cloudy.

Chances of rain increasing to 90% tonight and low temps around the upper 30s and low 40s.

Snow levels will start off above 6000 feet on Wednessday and eventually drop to around 3500 feet on Thursday. Those clouds will likely linger through the morning hours and begin to break up this afternoon.

Our next chance for rain will arrive by Tuesday as a cold front approaches. The clouds will help to keep afternoon highs from getting too warm, but if there are fewer clouds temperatures could approach 80 degrees! Lows in the mid 20s. Overnight lows will go from the mid-40s on Friday morning to the lower 50s Saturday morning. The high will reach the mid-30s.

Today (Wednesday): Some glimpses of sun are possible today amid partly to mostly cloudy skies. Highs will reach the 40s and 50s in southern New England and Upstate New York with 50s and 60s in much of the Mid-Atlantic, while 70s will prevail throughout most of the Southeast.

Sunday night: Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers.

Sunshine is expected to return tomorrow.