Through Tonight: Mostly clear skies and light winds tonight. Another cold overnight period with below-normal temperatures. Lows will be a few degrees cooler than last night, ranging from 22 to 26 degrees around metro D.C./Baltimore and from 18 to 22 degrees in the suburbs. Winds from the northeast at around 5 mph.

View the current weather at The Washington Post.

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Tomorrow (Monday): There should be no problems during the daytime hours on Monday. With an exiting high-pressure system, the first half of the day will feature partly sunny skies with temperatures warming into the upper 30s to low 40s. Cloud cover will increase in the late afternoon. Expecting precipitation to rather quickly overtake the region between 5 and 8 p.m. We don’t think precipitation will be heavy enough or temperature to be cold enough for hazardous weather for the evening commute.

Into the evening, snow may mix with sleet and rain at times, especially around D.C. and at points south and east of the city. Intensity should really pick up after around 10 p.m. As the night wears on, most areas north and west of Southern Maryland should see precipitation transition to mostly all snow, with the most significant snowfall occurring after midnight and into Tuesday morning. Heaviest amounts are likely north and west of the Beltway. Low temperatures will range from 30 to 32 degrees, with an increasing east wind at 10 to 20 mph.

Programming note: We will live blog the forecast models coming in this evening starting around 10 p.m. at washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang

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Winters Revenge Tour: Old Man Winter is making his presence known all throughout the Lower 48, in many places for the first time all season. In Chicago, where folks just experienced a snowless January and February for the first time in 146 years, up to six inches are expected by tomorrow morning.

How’s this for a stat. Through yesterday, Seattle (yes Seattle!) had more accumulated snow in 2017 than Minneapolis. That oddity will come to an end after today, with Minnesota experiencing its first significant snowfall, as well.

And a bit closer to home, folks in the southeastern U.S. woke up to some of the white stuff this morning. If you think it’s hard to get snow in March in D.C., it’s even harder to get for our southern friends. Charlotte had its first measurable snow in March for the first time since 2010.

And just in case you were wondering, both of these systems that brought snow to the Midwest and the Southeast are the two storms that are going to phase with each other off the East Coast to form our impending nor’easter.