The National Weather Service forecasters at Sterling, Va. are predicting a high temperature of 66 degrees on Saturday. If we make it, it would tie the record set for a Jan. 21 in Baltimore, set way back in 1921. The normal high for the date - the 30-year average for the airport - is 41 degrees. So a high tomorrow of 66 degrees would put us 25 degrees above normal for the date.

And while we are enjoying a spring-like winter, Russians are suffering through a brutal cold snap.

Here's AccuWeather's take on all this warm air flowing in from the Deep South. You can thank the jet stream.

Although the following few days look cooler, the folks at Sterling say there's a good chance this sort of unusually mild January weather will continue. Here's part of this morning's forecast discussion:

"THE CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION OUTLOOK ISSUED THIS
AFTERNOON HAS OUTLINED THE MID-ATLANTIC REGION IN A 50-60 PCT PROBABILITY OF ABOVE NORMAL TEMPS AND ABOUT A 40 PCT PROBABILITY OF ABOVE NORMAL PRECIP FOR THE
REMAINDER OF JANUARY INTO EARLY FEB. AT THIS RATE...JAN 2006 MAY GO DOWN
AS ONE OF THE LEAST SNOWIEST (sic) ON RECORD."

In Baltimore, where weather records for snow began in 1883, there has been only one snowless January in all the 124 Januaries since. That was in 1937. There have been just four with only a trace of snow: 1913, 1914, 1934 and 1973.  If we get no more this month, this would be the fifth.