Morning, gary. Not as gloomy. Were not talking about well i just will say this. Theres a little bit of sunshine from time to time today and a lot of clouds too. Any sun would be great because clouds is overcast. More surprise Christmas Day. Thats my Christmas Gifts to you. Listen i wont make a big deal out of this. Its possible. I mentioned this yesterday we could have a few evening snowflakes around. Ill be more specific coming up in a few minutes if you stay with us and ill give you the full forecast. It does not look like accumulation. All that looks like it take place back to the west of us for Higher Elevations back to western virginia and West Virginia and western maryland too. They could pick up 2 to 4 of snow today and this evening. It could be a White Christmas out there. Not for us though. Look, we have rain streaming up to the south along a fr frontal bound write down th there. And it looks like later on this afternoon and this evening some of this comes and into rain if it
We have a day that is very much a summer preview. Before you know it well be doing this every day. However, this is just a one time special with temperatures in the 90s later today. I felt the humidity once i stepped outside today. I feel like you can see the humidity as we take a live look outside, sun has raise sen, good saturday to you all. Hopefully you have wonderful weekend plans. Youll want to be outdoors but youll be sweating. 71 degrees already. It is pretty sticky to start off this morning its kind of cloudy. Weve got winds out of the south right now driving in that warmth and that humidity. Its 71 in manassas, already 74 in quantico, 72 in leonardtown, 74 in annapolis. This is one of those days were going watch those temperatures just skyrocket throughout the morning and into the afternoon hours. Theyre having showers and thunderstorms out there. Storm tracker radar noticed were quiet in d. C. And our immediate suburbs. Heading out towards the mountains theres a nice line of
Thanks for joining us tonight, im lauren demarco. And im jim lokay. Lo off the top were talking about the powerful winds that have led to damage. We have Team Coverage with wi the weather. And Lindsay Watts with a look at the damage. Reporter jim and lauren, there has been a lot going onn today with those fires tree branches falling and even an entire tree coming d ceasing ton. That tree snapped power linesnap putting the utility crews work to tonight and leaving a few hundred people without power oni such a freezing night. We heard what sounded to me like an explosion and a of course ouf lights went out and then a couple of seconds later there was another large bank. After hearing the strong wind all day people who lived near kensington parkway got to see utility poles snapped like twist and tangled wires all over road. It knocked out power at two apartment billings. S. They have elevators stopped. So they had to get people evacuated from those. Hos far from the only square from heavy
Branch crashed down on a car in bethesda. This is one of several wires today, a barn up in flames in clarksburg. At the time and no one was hurt. But firefighters say nearby homes were threatened. It was fully involved in fire. E. Office lit windy conditions were creating a situation where the nearby brush and woods caught on fire very quickly, pretty rapid spread of that fire. Before this, montgom county fire was called to a brush fire in gaithersburg sparked by a lawnmower. Rapid spread, got into a wooded area and fortunately we were able to get there and get a pretty good knock on it prettyey quickly, but it was probably about spread about 100 yards or so. A a busy day for fire and utilityit crews and a frosty evening forng those without power. Hout its going to be a cold night at our place. Back here live, these utilityty overnight. Right now theyre saying power probably will not be restored until tomorrow. Morr we do have some safety tips fros firefighters tonight. Refi they saygh