Washington, D.C. is expected to see changing weather conditions over the next few days. The National Weather Service forecasts a slight chance of rain between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. today, with mostly cloudy skies and a high near 54 degrees.
Rain is forecast mainly before 3 a.m. tonight, with winds shifting from the southwest to the northwest and gusts reaching up to 31 mph. The chance of precipitation is 60 percent, with less than a tenth of an inch of new rainfall expected. On Thursday, conditions are likely to be mostly sunny, with gusty winds and a high near 32 degrees.
From Thursday night through the weekend, conditions are expected to be mostly clear, with overnight lows in the low 20s. Friday is forecast to be mostly sunny with a high near 37 degrees. On Saturday, there is a 30 percent chance of rain and snow before the afternoon, followed by mostly sunny conditions later in the day.
On Sunday and into Martin Luther King Jr. Day, conditions are forecast to be partly to mostly sunny, with daytime highs in the mid-30s. Overnight temperatures are expected to fall to around 21 degrees. The NWS forecast shows this pattern continuing into Tuesday, with partly cloudy nights and mostly sunny days.
