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Live look outside Key Bridge Memorial Bridge running smooth on a Friday night in DC. We've been mostly dry today. A couple of sprinkles here and there, but nothing too serious. 81° dew points high as they often are this time of year. Winds out of the north and east at 7 mph. Across the rest of the area, Martinsburg sitting at 72. It's 75 in Hagerstown, 74 in Cumberland, Westminster at 71, Baltimore 78, Annapolis just like DC hanging on to the lower 80s. So is Quantico, 77 at Leatherwood, Manassas at 78 our neighbors on the Eastern Shore sitting at in the low to mid 70s at this hour. We look at satellite and radar. Most of the showers and the sprinkles that were there around DC Baltimore are starting
to fade away more and more to the south. Still some rain down just coming out of Culpeper heading over towards the Hartwood area, Stafford, Fredericksburg. You guys could get a little bit of Spotsylvania area as well, a little bit of rain shower activity. Still severe weather and even a tornado warning right now just to the south of the Richmond that metro area. So they've been a had a very active day down along and south of that I-64 corridor. That's the third tornado warning I've seen issued along that. Charlottesville had two of them earlier this afternoon. Futurecast showing you quieter conditions through
the overnight and by tomorrow morning mixture of clouds and sun to kind of greet us. We get into the afternoon expecting more sun to break out. But and I know it's kind of hard to see, winds are going to shift around a little bit tomorrow. They'll come out of the north and east and that's going to push in what we call a sea breeze boundary, a little bit of a bay breeze too here in the DC region. Thanks to the Chesapeake Bay. That could cause a little bit of a wind shift just east of the Chesapeake Bay here. Usually sets up right around the I-95 corridor and that could be a zone that pops a couple of showers there. You see a few on Futurecast about 2:00 3:00 in the afternoon. I do think
they're going to be very localized and extremely hit and miss. Maybe even more hit and miss than Futurecast suggests here. Most of us are going to see a good amount of sunshine mixing with occasional clouds, but your Saturday still the pick of the week. It's still the pick of the weekend here in the Washington, D.C. region. Sunday, we flip things around a bit. Lot more clouds out there and some rain showers and that would be courtesy of some storms that'll go through the Midwest during the day on Saturday. They'll cross the mountains overnight, get to us on Sunday morning and this kind of watch closely here as I run it forward. You'll see that this area to the north is kind of twisting around just a little bit as
I send it forward there. You can see there's a little bit of rotation there. Got a special name. It's called meso low and when you have these guys pass to the north of you, you have to keep an eye out if you're on the southern flank of them because you can kick up some rather strong thunderstorms and a few of these could have the tendency to rotate. So, we'll have to watch out for that during the second half of the day on Sunday. We are already outlooked for severe weather, marginal risk around D.C. and Baltimore. Farther to the south, those areas that were just hard hit today, also under a slight risk and there's the potential that a few of those storms in the afternoon could have some damaging
winds, maybe an isolated tornado. So, we'll be watching that through the course of your weekend. Otherwise, as mentioned, Saturday's a hot one, humid one, 88° in D.C., 87 for Gaithersburg, 85 for Hagerstown. With the cloud cover and the rain to start things off on Sunday, a cooler day overall. Some might not make it out of the 70s, especially north of town, but humidity will be high and there'll be the chance for some thunderstorms. Tropics have actually been quieting down to just now a 10 and 30% chance of development after these two both had high risks of development earlier this week. Reason why this El Niño, you probably heard all about it. We've got an article on fox5dc.com about it that you can check
out. That is all this warming here in the central Pacific and upper-level winds come over to the Atlantic and really just kind of decimate those hurricanes. So, that's why we haven't had any hurricanes here in the Atlantic at all this season, but we have had three tropical storms. Did I want to mention tropical storm Lala heading for Hawaii? They got hurricane warnings on the Big Island of Hawaii. They almost never see those. Very rare there. But yeah, expected to pass by this weekend as a category 1 hurricane. We'll stay hurricane free, but we'll watch some showers and storms on Sunday. Next week looks hot, humid, seasonal, maybe a couple of thunderstorms there, especially later in the week.
