Happy New Year! As we cheer in 2025, the cold winter air is making a triumphant return. Over the next four days or so, we’ll experience multiple shots of cold air, steadily dropping our afternoon highs through the end of the week.
After those thunderstorms raced through the region last night, we’re waking up to a refreshing breeze and bright conditions. Bright, brisk and breezy is how we’ll call the first day of 2025 — highs will be in the low to mid 50s.
Our second shot of cold air comes in tonight following our breezy conditions this afternoon. Under clear skies, temperatures will drop into the 20s and 30s tonight, with highs tomorrow afternoon pinned in the 40s. It’s another day of sunshine, but it’ll feel chilly!
The third shot of cold air comes in Friday night, but with this one will be some extra clouds and a chance of a passing shower or even a flurry. Friday should begin with sunshine before increasing clouds gray up the sky by around lunch time. A batch of moisture accompany the cold air sweeps through the region later on Friday. With it, an isolated shower or two, or even a flurry or brief snow shower.
This third shot of cold air sets up a very cold weekend — temperatures drop into the 20s for lows and 30s for highs both Saturday and Sunday. Wind chill values will be a factor, mainly Saturday, where it could feel like the teens through the morning!
The cold air crashing in this weekend is an important ingredient in the forecast for early next week…. as there’s a chance of snow in Hampton Roads! As of now, our next weather system lifts into the region sometime around Monday, and it looks like it could start as snow or a wintry mix, then flip over to rain.
There are plenty of questions with the forecast — timing, impacts, accumulations — and we cannot provide any accurate answers to them at this point. Changes are sure to unfold in the forecast over the coming days, it could be snow to rain, wintry mix to rain, just snow, or all rain! But the pattern looks favorable for some sort of wintry precipitation. Please be sure to check in with the forecast later this week and this weekend for updates.
Happy New Year and enjoy the return of the cold!
-Steve
