monday, october 17. we re taking a live look outside at 5:00 a.m. what s the rest of the day going to look like, tom? a mild day today, so dress accordingly. all around the region we ve had increasing clouds as a weak cold front is triggering sprinkles to our west and north. right now you see on the upper left of your screen. that s light rain across the panhandle of west virginia, western maryland, and far northern virginia. some of those sprinkles may hold together and come across the d.c. area in the next couple of hours. right now 62 at reagan national. 50s shenandoah valley. out in western maryland, chilly, only near 50. upper 60s southern maryland around the bay and eastern shore. sunrise 7:19. we ll have a chance of a few sprinkles here over the next few hours. after that, sunshine breaking out and a mostly sunny afternoon with highs reaching low to mid-70s. turning much cooler later tonight. we ll talk about that with your evening planner in the next ten minutes.
degrees. blade bladensburg and adelphi at 55. still our cool sport in montgomery county, 45 degrees currently in coolsville, maryland. here we are at 9:00 at 61. another ten degrees by lunch time today. as we go through the day, we ll keep the sunshine around. some high clouds for your evening and a little breezy too. we ll hit a high today of 75 degrees. through the evening we ll be falling into the upper 60s by 7:00. during the evening we may pick up a few additional clouds too. so 11:00 maybe partly cloudy sky at 61 degrees. some big time warmth will be headed our way for the weekend and early part of next week. that includes columbus day. i ll show you the forecast in just a couple of minutes. good morning. chopper 4 is over the inner loop of the beltway between connecticut and georgia avenue. you know we have rough pavement in this area. very bumpy commute for you. want to let you know traveling on the inner loop as well as the outer loop is going to slow you down ju
the organization chose streets that highlight the role of great city planning while exemplifying streets of character. stay with us. news 4 today continues right now at 5:00 a.m. coming home this morning, amanda knox is waking up free for the first time in four years. when she could be returning to the united states. good morning. welcome back to news 4 today. i m joe krebs. and i m eun yang. welcome back for this tuesday, october 4th, 2011. we re going to take a live look outside at 5:01. 49 degrees. it is chilly out there but a nice change with a sunshine back in our forecast. nobody wanted that dreary part for as long as we had it. the last mostly sunny day we had was three weeks back. big wow. we want the brilliant and bright stuff so that we can get busy getting ready for fall. out there right now, we ve got some clouds and even a few little sprinkles that are still falling around the area. 52 is the temperature. won t need the umbrella today. not even enou
sunrise at 7:03. when it comes up, it will be filling the sky with lots of rays of sunshine, something we haven t seen. we ve seen so many clouds all through the day. so pat collins can put his sun lamp away. that said, we re going to have a few clouds tomorrow. all in all, we re breaking the pattern we ve been in, stuck for so long. as we round out the month, national wraps up with almost nine inches of rain for the month. dulles, almost eight inches of rain. it s nice that we re starting to dry out more and more. boy, we re going to have wind to help dry us out today. 63 the temperature. winds out of the southwest at 8 miles an hour. an increase in winds. we could see gusts today up to around 20 miles per hour. some of the temperatures throughout the area, takoma park and tinnily town now at 63 degrees. mt. aerie to the north. mitchellville at 61 degrees. here s a look at today, going up to 74 to 75 degrees. breezy with an increase in clouds. starting out to be a
this is supposed to be the first day back to school for thousands of students. mother nature had other plans. in virginia, culpeper, fauquier orange rappahannock, and spotsylvania schools are closed. so is gold run elementary in fairfax. in maryland, all prince george s county schools are closed. all d.c. public schools are closed. the federal government is open. some buildings are closed. to get the fullest, that is going to the top of your screen. you may also find at our website, wjla.com. we want to shift our focus to traffic and weather every ten minutes. it was quite an evening. lisa baden will have the latest from the roadways. but we begin with meteorologist adam caskey. good morning. i want to give you a little historical perspective on the earthquake yesterday. in terms of east coast hurricanes. over the past 228 years, this ties for the top three. charleston, 7.3 in 1886. in giles county virginia, 5.9 in 1897. 5.8 in new york in 1944. it is 57 degrees in le