Check on todays valentines day forecast. To do that we are talking to our sweetheart, Veronica Johnson. How sweet, you are being nice to me for five minutes . [laughter] julie dont count on it. All right, guys. We could see some passing showers for couple of hours. Going wide here on the doppler, it is further out of our area and we are seeing a few showers coming to areas of west virginia. Some light snow showers but by the time we get anything really falling that is substantial behind the air is so dry the last weather system it will come in the form of a sprinkle or two. Maybe a snowflake in the highest elevations south and west of there. Cloud cover first thing, temperatures higher, at least were not having to deal with the extreme wind we had over the last couple of hours, last 24 hours. The morning, afternoon sunshine. High today going up to 51, putting us a couple of degrees above average. For the evening, pretty nice to. Look at the a weekend, president s day weekend, coming up
Freezing at 30 degrees. So as we go through the day today, bus stop time at least youll want the warm jacket for the kids. About the mid to low 30s. Mostly cloudy skies through the day. By the afternoon time, temperatures right around the low 50s. Chuck is live outside. Good morning, chuck. Good morning. Yes, indeed, quite the little chill in the air. Still waiting on sun vooiz as well. That doesnt happen until 6 00 this morning and starting tomorrow sunrise is before 7 00 a. M. All the way up until march 10th and thats when daylight savings time kicks in. For today though a reasonably nice day. Afternoon temperatures today upper 40s and low 50s right here in downtown, about 53 degrees for your High Temperature today. Talking to someone from the park service about Cherry Blossoms and whether its going to be an early or a late peak. Well find out. Ill ask minutes after 6 00. For now though, 6 00 means traffic is getting busier. A brand new problem at walker mill road shut down here at n
Suspect we believe there are four suspects. If they called off the search in the cemetery area maybe they developed information. What youre looking at now in white van the suspects allegedly bailed out of and i know its hard for you to see in the dark but police will shine a flashlight on it. Youll see lumpy mass right by those on the bottom of the doors. Thats chains and the reason that is important is because suspects apparently used chains to try to take atm machine from bp station on annapolis road and drag it off its foundation and steal it. We dont know how many of these they tried to take if it was just one or series overnight. We have seen this happen before. I remember i was on a story in potomac where they dragged atm machine off its moreings using a chain somebody had. This is not the first time this crime here and that atm machine we believe is still in middle of annapolis road and police are trying to do what they have to do to get that up and preserve any evidence that th
At lunchtime, sunny, warm. Have the sunglasses. Later this afternoon as we get closer to the evening rush around 6 00, you can see these popup thunderstorms. There will be a risk of thunderstorms. Nothing severe, but just be on alert. This morning, upper 50s. Maybe a few isolated showers through about 10 00. Have the sunglasses for midday. A few thunderstorms between 3 00 to 7 00. If you enjoy the 80s today, you will get one more day tomorrow. Talking about this all week, temperatures expected to tumble into the weekend. The weekend looking unsettled with a lot of rain. We will time that out in about nine minutes from now. Lets get a look at the morning rush. What do people need to know . Julie the inner loop of the beltway is where we have problems. Traveling south of route 4, pennsylvania avenue, in the direction of the wilson bridge, standing room only with the crash only the left lane getting by. 495. Bound 95 to slowing down on the use side of town. We had earlier problems on 210.
Fredericksburg, coming around 50 today with a rise in temperatures today only nine to 10 degrees. Wementioned, let the time get to the end of the fourth week, how much rain we could get today, as well as tomorrow, going to stop it here today. 8 00, one third to half an inch, not too much. Morningng the late hours we could pick up another half of an inch to an inch of rain across the area and by 11 00 in the evening when it starts to wind down, an inch, maybe an inch and a half in some locations. This is rained for our area. We will talk about how the rainbow impact other areas, coming up. Looking around the capital beltway, we are dealing with light showers, allow for extra time on the roads as you continue to make your way around town. Lets start off show you whats happening with the blue and silver line. We have delays due to a deer that was struck earlier this morning on the track. Delays are forming northbound i95 out of stafford continuing from the exit heading northbound towards