From early Saturday morning into Sunday morning, an arctic blast will bring potentially damaging wind gusts, life-threatening wind chills, and dangerous marine icing from Sussex County, Delaware, to Ocean City, Maryland
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A cold stretch that turns downright harsh this weekend, with the biggest headline being dangerous wind chills and strong winds, not snow.
Sussex County is expected to stay mostly calm through Friday evening, with light snow developing late and a much more dangerous wind-and-cold outbreak slated for the weekend.
Delmarva stays sunny but cold today, then turns cloudier Friday ahead of a clipper and an arctic front. Snow looks minimal (if any, just a dusting), but a sharp temperature crash and powerful winds arrive Saturday—bringing dangerous wind chills into the single digits and potentially below zero.
Colder-than-normal temperatures have settled across Delmarva, with highs ranging from the mid-30s to low 40s. The chill deepens by Thursday and into the weekend, as an arctic cold front approaches. While light snow is possible Friday, more impactful snow squalls and dangerously cold wind chills are expected Friday night into Saturday. Gusty winds behind the front may reach 50 mph, especially near the coast.
Delmarva stays locked in arctic cold today with highs only in the low to mid 20s under increasing clouds, flirting with record territory near Georgetown. Light snow and flurries arrive this evening and overnight, with the best chance for measurable snow remaining in far southern and coastal areas, especially Accomack County. The bigger story is a rapidly strengthening storm offshore that will bring bitter wind chills and the risk of minor coastal flooding during the Sunday morning high tide
This morning wind chills could fall as low as 3 to 6 below zero, especially in more exposed locations.
A prolonged stretch of dangerous, potentially record-setting cold is settling over Delmarva from today through the weekend. A powerful coastal storm will bring snow, high winds and coastal flooding late Saturday-Sunday.
Refreezing is expected to keep travel slick early Monday in Sussex County, and another surge of arctic air is forecast to reinforce dangerously cold temperatures through early Wednesday.
Even with the Winter Storm Warning canceled for Sussex County, wet roads could refreeze late tonight into Monday as temperatures drop back below freezing and arctic air tightens its grip on Delmarva.