Partly sunny, 86 by noon. A high of 92 or so. There will be a few storms around this afternoon. This morning its muggy. 77 in washington. 72 in leesburg, fredericksburg. The cool spots in the mountains are in the mid60s. Theres a lot of humidity around and even showers and storms especially to our south. A lone shower this morning tracking this one which has now left Prince Georges County. You see it toward Anne Arundel County. So this one continues to move just north. It will be approaching areas on the coast here in another 15 minutes or so. The heavy stuff though with the lightning and thunder, thats down 95, especially down fredricksburg area south toward lady smith. This is crossing 95 now moving east at about 30 miles an hour. So from around quantico through stafford, fredricksburg, youre seeing it now. But Charles County over to the Northern Neck, southern maryland, st. Marys, watch out as it treks your way. It will be moving toward port royal. La plata 6 32. Solomon 7 35 and po
From tysons over toward mclean approaching arlington, we have some showers now. This extends back again almost to about winchester and berryville. Andrea and mike, back to you. Thank you, howard. Heres whats in the news right now. The secret service has suffered another embarrassment. Cbs news confirms the security contractor who was convicted three times on charges of assault and battery was allowed on an elevator with president obama earlier this month in atlanta. Doctors at a dallas hospital are treating a man infected with the ebola virus. The unidentified man is the first confirm case with the disease diagnosed here in the United States. The cdc says the man is not a threat to others. Prodemocracy demonstrators in hong kong are threatening to expand their protests against chinas government. Protesters are angry over chinese interference in hong kongs first direct election set for 2017. Police want to know if two deaths of two people just minutes apart are related. One person was k
You were telling me the storm is no joke. It really isnt, especially when you take into effect the stronger wind gusts. Wind gusts in winchester already at 35 Miles Per Hour. Overall tonight between 50 and 60 Miles Per Hour. This is a very potent arctic front and also some snow bands moving through the region right now. I have heard from people that the snow is coding the ground in some areas. Along the i95 corridor, heavy snow falling traveling east along route 50 through different apart. Another band of heavy snow moving through Frederick Hagerstown martinsburg, back through berryville as well. That heavy snow line is pushing eastward. That may produce some snow in the d. C. Metro area. The National Weather service has issued a Winter Weather advisory effect until midnight tonight at some of those snow squalls could reduce visibility and produce up to two inches of snow. As i mentioned, the main threat will be the damaging wind gusts that move in overnight while you are sleeping and
Maybe download our weather app if you havent. Lets show you whats happening. If you havent been able to get to the the beach, this is the scene from ocean city right now. Looks like a decent day there. Certainly theyre not going to be as hot as we are. Theyll hold in the 80s. The storms that im tracking excuse me i tripped over something. Well be good. Storms on track down south of pittsburgh and in toward ohio. Theres very little activity going on right now. This is what we had early this morning when we had some heavier downpours down in southern maryland. Our temperatures now, theyre way up there. This is the bigger problem for today i think, the heat. Its 87 now. A little cooler on the bay 80 in annapolis with 86 leesburg. 87 fredricksburg. When you factor in the humidity, we already have heat index values in the mid90s. These are going to get close to triple digits today. For the afternoon were looking at sunshine. Isolated storms developing here and there. 89 by 3 00 if not 91, 9
Well take this trafficland shot. This is the camera north of van dorn street on the outer loop of the beltway. You want to stay around to the left of that. Otherwise things looking decent. Starting to see the stackup 270 southbound at 109. Again you can see the delays starting to set in but no reports of any incidents or accidents. Looks like that crash we had on fingerboard road on park mills is out of way so you should be able to make your way on 80 towards the beltway without any issues. Back to you. Most of our region is experiencing a morning of steady rain as you can see. Which is fortunate. Nikki burdine is live in frederick with a look at the conditions there. So far so good, right, nikki . Reporter so far so good. In fact, we went out to try and find that accident that trenice was talking about near fingerboard off of 80 at park mill road and its gone. Thats the good news there. I want to show you how these side roads are looking because these are the ones that you have to wor