Clouds are finally beginning to break up across the region with the first reports of sun breaking through the low cloud deck in southwestern VA:

Also notice the wind speeds: sustained out of the north at 12 with gusts approaching 20 mph. As a low pressure system to the east begins to strengthen and head up towards Nova Scotia, a relatively tight pressure gradient will develop. Expect breezy conditions tomorrow, with winds sustained around 10-20 mph with some higher gusts--and these will gradually subside Saturday evening as the low pulls away into the Canadian Maritimes, and high pressure approaches from the west.

Weeked Outlook:
With all of the dismal weather over the past week, we deserve a weekend with a little sunshine. Saturday looks spectacular, with highs topping out in the mid to upper 70s and decreasing cloud cover.

Sunday is even nicer as winds subside below 10mph, and high temperatures look to be about 10 degress cooler--generally staying upper 60s to near 70.

Extended Outlook:
There is some model discontinuity in the extended range, particularly between the one of the premier forecast models (GFS) and GEM (Canadian Model), and the usually very accurate ECMWF. Tuesday afternoon the GFS drills a small area of low pressure southeastward into the Mid Atlantic from southern Canada. This model has not been extraordinarily consistent over the past few runs, so confidence in this particular forecast is a bit lower. The GEM says "what low?" keeping the region dry until next weekend.