because, you know, it s raining. i don t want to ruin my nice shoes. that walk into work, it s t t worstng in the morning at lready en your feet are wet. yeah. i started off with the wellies. tomorrow s going to be all about the sunglasses. here s radar right now, we re weather alert mode with widespread rain and thunderstorms later this afternoon. you see evybody in themetro area south and north dealing with rain. to the westnd shenandoah valley seeing some drying right now. but if you re in parts of y,udoun and prince william and fauquier countaround gainesville, sterling, toward dulles, dealing with some moderate, even heavy rain out thereen remember whhe windshield wipers on, the headlights need to be on, as well. we have a high today of 78 with a lull in the rain around the midday hours. then hit-and-miss thunderstorms between 2:00 and 7:00 a.m. i ll have more coming up. melissa, you re alady tracking a problem on 95 in virginia thii morng. that s right. this is northb
scattered showers as we move toward about 8:10 a.m. by 10:00, 11:00 a.m., i think most of us arein gog to be good health a break from the going to be getting a break from the rain. thunderstorms later today. some stormscould be strong, even severe. mi m going to havere that coming up in about ten minutes. for now, melissa, another issue, this one new hampshenue? that s right. we have a lot of different problems around town this morning. this is new hampshire avenue just outside the beltway. so we have some northbound and ome southbound lanes of new hampshire right now closed because of that crash. in rockville, northbound 270 at rock ledge, down eed tree block the right lane. you might encounter it if you re headed out soon.ro ville shut down at putnam where megan mcgrath is for you. before franconia road, that s on the left shoulder. was a crash with injuries, multiple vehicles involved in that. that s pretty much cleared out of the way. 66 and 95 overall looking good. a
ar 70 degrees. wet roads this morning. later today still some wet roads out there tomorplw. it s comely dry. we ll have more on the severe weather outlook with the storms later coming up in about ten minutes. melissa, issues on the roads right now? good right now we have different problems. northbound 95vet quantico, urned vehicle. a five-mile back up as you head northbound here. you can see the tow truck is on the scene. this should be o of the way pretty soon. inner loop before geoown pike, everything being pushed over to the right because of that crash right now. inner loop before the springfirid interchange, t lane blocked, brand new problem. all of this coloring here, that is all rain falling across the area. route 1 near ikea driver, another overturned vehicle here in the middle of the intersectionde seeing some ys northbound and southbound there at route 1. shady grove road at air park, three-vehicle crash hanging around in the ntersection. and here, rockville, rand
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