A wet week, with a chance for a flakey finish

It appears we're looking at a pretty wet week. Forecasters at the National Weather Service's regional forecast office in Sterling, Va. say we should expect Monday's mid-day lull to yield after 3 p.m. to more showers and possibly thunderstorms as the approaching cold front moves by.

The showers could persist until midnight, but Tuesday, at least, promises a little sunshine, with highs near 60 degrees.

That may be it for the sun until Friday. The cold front is expected to stall to our south, becoming a set of rails for a series of low-pressure systems to ride through on. They will bring us more showers and thunderstorms Wednesday, Wednesday night and Thursday before ending in the morning hours.

Friday is forecast to be sunny, but unseasonably cool, with a high in the upper 40s. Then, another storm system is due to cross the southern mid-Atlantic area Friday night into Saturday. And with the lows expected to fall to near freezing Friday night and again on Saturday night, NWS forecasters said some of the precipitation each night could mix with snow north of Washington, D.C. before changing over to all-rain:

"Both of these weekend features appear to be limited to light precipitation, but warrant close analysis in the coming days."