CWG Live updates: Cloudy and breezy today, with a great August weekend ahead
Happening now: Much cooler 70s for highs and still becoming less humid today. It's a bit breezy, too, with lingering showers possible out of mainly cloudy skies.
What's next? Plenty of weekend sun with low humidity and highs not far from 80. This pleasant weather pattern could last into next week!
Today's daily digit — 6/10: Cooler 70s and cloudy with a few showers possible along with breezes. Improvement over yesterday's hectic, stormy weather day. | 🤚 Your call?
The digit is a somewhat subjective rating of the day's weather, on a 0-to-10 scale.
Forecast in detail
Today (Friday): Our slowing cold front manages to bring cooler, less humid highs within a few degrees of 75 but can't clear the skies just yet. Clouds stick around, and they bring a few showers. Enjoy our coolest day in roughly a month! Breezes gusting near 20 mph from the north-northeast could feel refreshing. Confidence: Medium
Tonight: Still a bit cloudy and slightly humid with a brief rain chance. Lows bottom out near 60 to mid-60s. Confidence: Medium
Tomorrow (Saturday): Sunny skies outside of a few midday clouds bubbling up, but so far it looks like we stay dry. Delightful highs in the upper 70s with low 80s are accompanied by amazing dew points in the 50s. Unfamiliar comfort! Confidence: Medium-High 😎 Nice Day!
Tomorrow night: Mostly clear, calm winds and pleasant lows in the upper 50s to mid-60s (downtown). Confidence: Medium-High
Sunday: Skies are still bright with just a few high clouds around at times. Highs near 80 to mid-80s may only be a couple of degrees warmer (if at all) compared with Saturday. Comfortable dew points in the 50s continue. Confidence: Medium-High 😎 Nice Day!
A look ahead
Sunday night: Our recent pattern continues. Nighttime skies clear, breezes calm and lows bottom out in the upper 50s to mid-60s. Confidence: Medium
Still hanging on to decent weather Monday and Tuesday. We could see a few more clouds, maybe a stray shower (particularly Tuesday) and a hint more humidity. Highs are a bit warmer, or within a few degrees of 85. Confidence: Medium
The rest of next week starts to slowly re-humidify as highs climb from mid-80s toward 90. Thunderstorm chances also return. Confidence: Medium
Today's daily digit — 6/10: Cooler 70s and cloudy with a few showers possible along with breezes. Improvement over yesterday's hectic, stormy weather day. | 🤚 Your call?
The digit is a somewhat subjective rating of the day's weather, on a 0-to-10 scale.
Forecast in detail
Today (Friday): Our slowing cold front manages to bring cooler, less humid highs within a few degrees of 75 but can't clear the skies just yet. Clouds stick around, and they bring a few showers. Enjoy our coolest day in roughly a month! Breezes gusting near 20 mph from the north-northeast could feel refreshing. Confidence: Medium
Tonight: Still a bit cloudy and slightly humid with a brief rain chance. Lows bottom out near 60 to mid-60s. Confidence: Medium
Tomorrow (Saturday): Sunny skies outside of a few midday clouds bubbling up, but so far it looks like we stay dry. Delightful highs in the upper 70s with low 80s are accompanied by amazing dew points in the 50s. Unfamiliar comfort! Confidence: Medium-High 😎 Nice Day!
Tomorrow night: Mostly clear, calm winds and pleasant lows in the upper 50s to mid-60s (downtown). Confidence: Medium-High
Sunday: Skies are still bright with just a few high clouds around at times. Highs near 80 to mid-80s may only be a couple of degrees warmer (if at all) compared with Saturday. Comfortable dew points in the 50s continue. Confidence: Medium-High 😎 Nice Day!
A look ahead
Sunday night: Our recent pattern continues. Nighttime skies clear, breezes calm and lows bottom out in the upper 50s to mid-60s. Confidence: Medium
Still hanging on to decent weather Monday and Tuesday. We could see a few more clouds, maybe a stray shower (particularly Tuesday) and a hint more humidity. Highs are a bit warmer, or within a few degrees of 85. Confidence: Medium
The rest of next week starts to slowly re-humidify as highs climb from mid-80s toward 90. Thunderstorm chances also return. Confidence: Medium
A 13-year-old boy died in Mount Airy, Maryland, after getting trapped in a storm drain during Thursday's flooding storms, according to the Mount Airy Police Department and news reports. Mount Airy received about four inches of rain Thursday afternoon into early evening, one of the highest totals in the region.
'Mount Airy Police and Fire Departments, along with the Carroll County Sheriff's Office and other emergency responders, worked tirelessly in an attempt to rescue the individual. Despite their heroic efforts, the operation transitioned from a rescue to a recovery,' the Mount Airy Police Department said in a news release. 'The individual was ultimately recovered from the storm drain but, unfortunately, succumbed to injuries sustained during the event.'
The boy was swept into a drainage pipe while playing with other kids, WBAL reported.
Thursday brought multiple rounds of downpours which produced wide-ranging rainfall totals from 0.05 inches to over 4 inches. Heavy rain affected many areas and there were pockets of flooding, but some locations were just grazed by the eruption of thunderstorms.
The most significant rain fell in three swaths:
The heaviest downpours eluded the official airport observing locations. Reagan National reported just 0.07 inches, Washington Dulles International 0.29 inches and Baltimore-Washington International Marshall 0.25 inches.
The National Weather Service received reports of flash flooding mainly within those swaths of heavier rain.
Several reports of high water originated between Potomac and Bethesda in Maryland. There were also isolated flooding reports to the west of Mount Airy and near Towson, Maryland.
In addition to flooding, the storms produced some damaging wind gusts that brought down trees, mainly well north and west of the Beltway in Frederick and northern Loudoun counties. But a few trees were also reported down in Northwest Washington.
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