of man, northern england and later into scotland. some will stay completely dry, north of mainland scotland and parts of east anglia and south east will see very little rain at all and temperatures here at 15, 16 degrees as they will be for a fairfew of you 15, 16 degrees as they will be for a fair few of you into tomorrow morning. the reason for the showery and variable amounts of rainfall this week is because we have low pressure in charge, it is to the west others, slowly pushing eastwards. as it get close of the tuesday a greater chance of a shower or two may come your way. a few spots will stay completely dry and some areas will be wetter than others. parts of western scotland most prone to showers. in the sunshine it will feel warm again but more cloud around, a chance of rain again and temperatures will be down on today s values. breezy on tuesday and wednesday. notice the isobars becoming fewer in number and spreading out so it means the winds will become a little bit light as
moving very fast. we stay in that wind gradient and the winds will stay up through tomorrow night and it will still be breezy on tuesday. by wednesday here in the metro boston area, temperatures back in the 50s with some sunshine. out here in the harbor, you can see the boats bobbing up and down. some white caps. we set up back here, we re a little more protected. if you go in town towards the harbor, those winds are just roaring through there. this morning they were sustained at tropical storm force which is up over 39, 40 miles an hour. it does get better here by tuesday. and for the rest of the northeast, new york city, philadelphia, washington, couple showers today. some breezes and temperatures generally between about 50 and be 5 degrees. all right. mike seidel braving the elements south of boston, we appreciate it. for the latest on the east coast mess or the check of the forecast in your area, you can always logon to weather.com. there is a major political shakeup unfoldin
are looking for additional passageways to enable us to get to sites we may not be able to. how long do you anticipate before we can get power back to these customers? they re going to be long duration outages. however, we expect that at least 50% of our outages we will have up and running by tomorrow morning. and then the additional amount of that, probably by tuesday. already, we appreciate that update. we ll check back with you in a bit. big flooding in washington august and surrounding areas. let s get a check with derek ward tracking that from wrc. we had a situation in alexandria, virginia. is the flooding still a big issue? reporter: lynn, we are in old town alexandria, just across the potomac river from washington, d.c. take a look. we re at the bottom of kink street and north union in old town where the tide has just started to recede. you look at the vehicle in the middle of the intersection giving you a sense of how high the water is.
up here we ve had some power outages too but gusts have been 50 to 55 miles an hour. look out here, you can see those small boats bobbing up and down. we re not getting a lot of wave action, but we re still getting sustained winds around boston to 30 miles an hour, gusting to around 40. as this storm creeps toward cape cod will stay in that gradient of wind. wind won t back off until late tomorrow. it will still be breezy on tuesday. also the fetch of moisture up the atlantic continues. pockets of moderate to heavy rain across southeast mass, into vermont, new hampshire, and that means another three inches-plus of rain of what s already fallen. we re still concerned about some stream and river flooding, localized flash flooding. and if that s not bad enough, in jersey where a lot of people lost power, we had those high winds yesterday and through the evening. now we ve got some thunderstorms of all things popping up with 40-degree temperatures. fortunately, their they re