Not to be lost in the excitement of a potential snowstorm? A long stretch of very cold weather starting Saturday. Some details:
- After highs flirt with 50 on Thursday, cold air begins to trickle into the area Friday, with highs in the 30s and Friday night lows dipping into the teens (maybe single digits north and west of the Beltway).
- Forecast highs this weekend are only in the teens to low 20s. If they hover in the teens, they would challenge calendar-day records. Lows in the teens and some single digits in the suburbs.
- Highs may be only in the mid-20s to mid-30s all of next week, again with lows in the teens to single digits at times in the burbs.
- The cold may ease some by the following weekend (Jan. 31-Feb. 1), but forecast confidence drops at that time range.
