StormTracker8: Very cold and less windy tonight

Richmond, Va (WRIC) -- Central Virginia will finally see some good melting of the lingering snow and ice on the ground in the days ahead, which is great news. Details below.

Tonight’s forecast calls for clear skies, the winds diminishing overnight and very cold temperatures, getting down to 10 to 15 degrees. We will see more refreezing of the lingering snow and ice overnight tonight, particularly on those neighborhood and secondary roadways.

Tomorrow’s forecast calls for sunny to mostly sunny skies, less windy conditions compared to our Saturday night and Sunday, and “warmer” temperatures, with highs around 40 degrees. We will see good melting of the lingering snow and ice on Monday afternoon, which is great news.

Tuesday’s forecast calls for increasing clouds, leading to mostly cloudy skies and highs 40 to 45 degrees.

Wednesday we are monitoring for a light wintry mix during the day, in association with our next weather system sweeping through the state of Virginia, under mostly cloudy skies and highs 35 to 40 degrees.

Thursday will be a chilly day overall, under partly sunny skies and highs around 35 degrees.

Friday we are also monitoring another light wintry mix during the PM hours, in association with another weather system that will be sweeping through the state of Virginia, at the end of this work week, under partly sunny skies and highs around 45 degrees.

Both the Wednesday and the Friday wintry mix possibility appear to be very minimal right now.

Looking ahead to next weekend, it will be colder again, as another surge of Arctic Air comes back into the state of Virginia.

Finally, next Monday, will be warmer again, under partly sunny skies, and highs 40 to 45 degrees.