Powerful wind gusts will be with us all day as a strong cold front move in and through our area. 40-60 mph wind gusts could develop from the southwest ahead of this rain, and then strong west, northwest winds are possible this evening. The threat is for trees to fall down, with saturated soils there's a better chance that falling trees and power outages could be a problem today.

Tonight, we will see our temperatures make a big drop, I would expect lows in the 30s overnight and colder air in place for the week ahead.

The midweek is looking interesting as a winter storm is developing for parts of our area. I believe the rain/snow line will set up somewhere across the State line and that could mean heavy snow for central and eastern Virginia, sleet and ice for some of us, and rain farther south in to North Carolina. It's way too early to know totals for specific areas, but there's a trend that parts of Northern Virginia could see 6"+

As a reminder, Blue is snow, Purple is mix and Green is rain. After this cold front moves through today we will have more time to focus on the upcoming winter storm.