performance. we are live on that story as fox 5 morning news continues right now. right now. . good morning to you. wednesday, august 8th as we take a live look outside over the city right now. and hot, huge you had and it looks like it is hazy. maybe that is just the monitor. i think your uses are right. they re right this time. good morning. i m sarah simmons. i m wisdom martin. welcome to fox 5 morning news at 6:00. time to talk to tucker barnes about that haze. you are looking at the water in the atmosphere. so you get the idea here. humidity is going to be sticking around today. all right. sticking around. you like to do that. i m so clever. you like to say that every time it s humid like we re in the going to catch that. 78 in washington. humidity, 87%. no winds, wish we had some out of the north. they we ll be out of the south later today and they will be light at five miles per hour. pressure pretty much steady. we have a leftover shower there
this is the beginning of a new era in space travel. that was the second attempt. the last one stopped just a half second before launch. good to see they were able to finally do that. i m sarah simmons. i m will thomas. did you see a little rain as you were driving in. it was coming down before i left the house and then it let up just a bit so i was dodging raindrops on the way in. tucker, is it going to keep on that way throughout the morning? yes, it is. good morning. hit and miss shower activities. it has been heaviest out to the west. let s get to your radar, take a look. here we go. that looks like that darker green you see is the actual flash flood warning. we ve still got some showers across the region. generally pretty light. they are roughly in a line south of st. mary s city. they will continue on and off throughout the morning with temperatures in the mid- to upper 60s and plenty of humidity to start your day. we ll have scattered showers and maybe a thund
we are headed in the right direction. it was chilly yesterday. i saw sarah before she left for the day and she had this big sort of heavy coat on. my rain coat. i had nothing. i came so unprepared. will, there is no excuse. i sit next to you every morning. i didn t bring it with me. cloud cover hanging tough across the washington area. there might be a shower or sprinkle particularly north and west of the city. most of the day will be dry and cloudy with a few breaks of sunshine as well as we start to watch the system that brought us the heavy rain on sunday start to wind down. it is now up into canada. temperatures in washington are on the cool side. 44degrees. 30s off to the north and west this morning. that is actual air temperature. 39 at dulles. 39 in hagerstown and 43 in fredericksburg. it will be windy again today. yesterday, winds got occupy about 30. we ll so that happen again this afternoon. cloudy and cool temperatures. a little better than yesterday,
there. things have been very dry. there you go. putting the radar into action, something we haven t had a chance to do a lot over the last couple of weeks. we have rain developing offer off to the south and west. some of this will make it into the area. high pressure to the north will try to dry out the rain before it hits the ground. i think we will see a little rain area-wide and best chance is after about noon today. rain back in the forecast with some cool temperatures too. currently at reagan national, we are 60 degrees. 57 out at dulles and bwi marshall, 60 degrees. your forecast for today, showers back in the forecast. lots of clouds around. might be a peek or two of sunshine this morning. high temperatures again about three or four degrees below normal. yeah, something else we haven t done so maybe a light jacket. i was a little surprised when we landed here from hawaii and the temperatures were actually warmer. i hay had a similar issue. i went to florida a
that fruit and yogurt parfait. come on. that is not what you get. it is. i ve turned a corner. trying to be more healthy. if you are going to get out running this morning, be ready for some fog and maybe a couple showers here and there. to our north, we are seeing some rain. let s start by taking a look at reagan national airport where it is dry. 64degrees at reagan national. it is humid. relative humidity is up there at 87%. your winds are light out of the east. we do have rain up to our north, not here in washington but to the north. we ve had it right around frederick, maryland. just to the west of columbia and some of us will be pushing into columbia, maryland starting to inch its way down into gaithersburg and there is some lightning with this and some heavy rain. also off to the east, not thunderstorm activity but some rain showers along interstate 50 if you are traveling between annapolis and washington. so a couple of spots where we ve got some rain this morning a