Gilchrist. And im Erika Gonzalez in for eun yang. The rain is coming our way. Were watching the models and our team of forecasters is keeping an eye on things for you. Chuck bell. The brandnew advisory coming in from the National Hurricane center as of the 5 00 hour here has an all new forecast track ill show you coming up at 5 21. Its a little bit more favorable for our week plan. Thursday rain drops this morning. Late rain from haguerstown to winchester. We should dry out by later this afternoon. Get a peek of two sunshine back. Afternoon highs generally speaking should be up in the low 80s. Labor day weekend, some potential anyway still exists for heavy rain and windy weather here saturday evening into early sunday. For now, melissa is here with traffic. Good morning. Still have this. 450 here at race track road. We have the crash from overnight with wires still down. Best thing to do, head a little bit south and take 50 instead if you are coming from the north here this morning. No
And classes will not be canceled today. Today, we expect to learn how d. C. Students performed on the park test. Muriel bowser will hold a press conference this morning. The parcc test measures how students perform on common core academic standards. I want to check 4 things to know about our forecast. A little bit of humidity, chuck . A little bit. Not so bad compared to a few weeks ago. You are going to notice it a bit outside first thing this morning, our awful august continues. Likely to be up to near 90 degrees again today, probably tomorrow as well, to finish out the month. First day of september is thursday. It looks like well have least a chance for showers coming on wednesday night into the middle parts of the day thursday. Tropical trouble still brewing weve got two different depressions off North Carolina and the florida coast. Were tracking those for us. And for us, it looks like a laudable labor day weekend. For now, exclusively, yours, the latest information possible from
It is 5 00 a. M. Right now. Good morning, everybody, im Aaron Gilchrist. And im angie goff in for eun yang. We want to talk about your hometown highs but some people could see 90s. Lets check with chuck bell. Good morning, everybody. My two favorite a. G. s, Aaron Gilchrist and angie goff. A mild start, temperatures running five degrees or more warmer than average. Plenty of clouds today hourly temperatures, 60s and 70s between now and 8 00 in the morning. 90 downtown, 85 in gaithersburg. Its going to be plenty warm today. Clouds sneak back in tomorrow and rain chances are back before the week is through. More about that in a few more minutes. Lets go over to melissa in first 4 traffic and see how things are coming along. It looks like firth sterling, more trouble there . A major tongue twister. Inbound suitland parkway at firth sterling, beltway, you can see overall is not bad. Northbound, southbound on 270, were rolling along just fine there. Prince georges county looking good as wel
Well be talking some heavy rainfall and some gusty, damaging wind. Right now, they will get the latest information and adding that in to our coverage. Tropical storm continues are possible this weekend. Again, damaging winds. We could see gusts anywhere from 60 to 70 miles an hour. Again, saturday night in to sunday right now is that key time period. Winds that strong produce damage. Flooding threat as well with rain in the forecast. Stay alert to the forecast. It is and will be changing. Heres the latest, windy all three days. Temperatures in the 70s. Flooding and damaging winds. Much more on the impact in the d. C. And metro area. A minute. Hermine is expected to make landfall in florida tonight. Governor rick scott put more than 50 counties under a state of emergency and closed state offices to give people more time to prepare. Some homeowners are deciding to ride out the path. There could be possible tornadoes and storm surge. The radar in the nbc washington app goes all the way do
Florida. It has extremely heavy rainfall. There have been tornado warnings out there earlier today. The wider view showing how wide this is. The latest advisory winds is 75 miles an hour moving to the east at 14 Miles Per Hour and moving our way but farther to the east. This is continuing to track to the east and its good news westward. Well talk about the impact at the beaches coming up later on. Right now, we have storms out there across our area and amelia is tracking those. Its still muggy out there. Grab the umbrella. Youll be dealing with heavy rain. Temperatures during the midevening hours, generally in the 70s, midto upper 70s, rain will be over by 9 00. Heres the 4 radar. Parts of Montgomery County, fairfax traveling along 270 and into the beltway and district as well. Bethesda at 6 40 here in the district, just after 7 00, annapolis at 7 10, i think once it moves through we are dry and it clears out. Were talking about the Tropical Storm watch over the weekend and theres alwa