Weaver should know weather watch
alert for storms on Friday
afternoon and into the evening.
The greatest chance for strong to severe
storms will start around lunchtime
around 12:00 PM and go
until 8:00 o'clock tonight.
Now we are not talking about a
widespread severe weather threat,
but I do think a few scattered
storms tomorrow afternoon could
become strong and possibly severe.
There is going to be a lot of
instability in the atmosphere.
Very similar to the past several days.
We'll have high heat,
high humidity and that will help fuel storms.
As they develop tomorrow
afternoon ahead of a cold front,
the good news is behind that cold front,
much nicer weather to enjoy for the weekend.
But our biggest concern as storms develop
tomorrow will be locally damaging wind.
We could see some pretty strong wind
gusts mix down and any storms that
develop an isolated pockets of flooding.
There's going to be a lot of
moisture in the atmosphere.
Once those storms fire up and ring out,
all of that moisture.
We could see quite a bit of rainfall and
that could lead to some isolated flooding.
The good news is storms do
look to have a pretty quick.
Forward motion,
meaning they'll move through very quickly.
Kind of similar to what
we saw Thursday night.
So overall the risk is relatively low,
but one of the greater concerns for tomorrow.
We could see some small hail
embedded in a few thunderstorms,
but not really concerned about hail
and the risk for an isolated tornado
is pretty much all but off the table.
The Storm Prediction Center does
have parts of the DMV under a
slight risk for severe weather.
That's the area you see shaded there
in yellow metro DC and point South.
And we always say it.
That slight doesn't sound like much.
That actually is pretty significant when
it comes to the severe weather threat,
so we'll certainly be keeping an eye on
storms as they develop tomorrow afternoon.
And even though areas off to the
north and West don't have as great
of a chance of severe weather,
I do still think we could see some
stronger storms form in parts of
Northern Virginia and northern
Maryland throughout the day tomorrow.
So let's time out the storms
using futurecast.
This is 7:00 o'clock Friday morning.
No issues for the Friday morning commute.
Nothing will slow you down tomorrow.
We might see a little locally dense fog.
Not expecting any widespread
visibility issues for Friday morning
and then Fast forward to lunchtime.
This is 12:00 PM when we start
to see the storms firing off.
Really along into the east of I-81.
I think most of the storms will stay in
our Western counties through about lunchtime,
but then say 2 three o'clock we
start to see more scattered storms
develop in and around Metro DC,
but notice pretty scattered.
Not everyone will see a storm tomorrow,
but where they do develop,
we'll be watching them to become
strong and possibly severe.
This is 5:00 o'clock.
And keep in mind.
Futurecast is just one computer model,
not an exact measurement of
where we'll see storms end
when I just like the idea that starting at
noon and going until around 8:00 o'clock,
we could see a few scattered storms.
So even though Futurecast doesn't
show anything around 5:00 o'clock,
I do still think we'll have
some storms on radar that could
slow down your evening commute.
By 8:00 o'clock storms,
continuing to push out of here to the east,
and by the time you check in
with us at 11:00 o'clock tonight,
I think the storms will be out of here.
We'll be tracking improving conditions
as we head toward the weekend,
so tomorrow.
We're forecasting high temperatures
in the upper 80s.
Now if we get the rain a little bit sooner,
that might keep our temperatures
cooler than they actually are.
But notice I put on the feels
like temperatures here as well,
because dew points will be back in the
low 70s throughout the day tomorrow,
and that will make temperatures feel about
5 degrees warmer than they actually are.
So bank on temperatures feeling pretty
close to 90 throughout the afternoon as
those scattered storms start to develop.
Now as we look ahead towards the weekend,
we knock out a little bit of
the heat and more importantly.
We knockout the humidity.
Really refreshing air moves
in behind this cold front,
so we'll see dew points in the upper 50s
and low 60s both Saturday and Sunday,
and you'll want to make some
plans to get outside.
Enjoy that lower humidity because
notice as we look ahead toward next
week Dew points will climb day by day.
We're back in the low 70s and that's
when it does start to feel pretty
sticky for Tuesday and Wednesday.
And not only are we talking about
rising humidity for next week,
also rising temperatures,
so this weekend it does look really nice.
We just have to get through
this weather watch.
On Friday 1st for scattered
showers and thunderstorms,
Saturday does look like the
pick day of the weekend.
Nice and bright temperatures in the
upper 80s, but without the humidity.
It will feel really nice and then
by Sunday we'll start to see
clouds increasing throughout the
afternoon and a few scattered showers
possible later in the evening.
Really, after dinner time,
the better chance for rain is going to
be next month next Monday rather and
Tuesday when we see scattered showers
and storms return to the forecast.
So we'll time out the rain here as we
head throughout the weekend Saturday.
Really no issues.
We'll see partly sunny to mostly
sunny skies throughout the day.
Really a nice day to get outside
and enjoy the lower humidity.
By Sunday.
We start off partly sunny,
but clouds will increase throughout
the afternoon.
This is right around lunchtime,
you can see some of those showers
off to our South and West.
They'll threaten to bring in some
rain right around dinnertime.
This is 7:00 PM,
but I do think most of the wet weather
will stay to our South through the
early evening hours of Sunday.
The better chance for rain will
be much later into the evening,
and as we look ahead towards Monday.
Here's a look at the seven day forecast.
Nats are back at home for
a nice long home stretch.
Starting Friday.
Going all the way until Wednesday.
If you're heading out to
the game Friday night,
you may see a scattered shower or
storm causing a rain delay the weekend.
I think they get the games in
no issues and then Monday and
Tuesday more storms back in the
forecast and day by day next week.
Temperatures will get warmer until we
are back in the mid 90s by Thursday.