7:00 AM | **Hurricane Idalia makes landfall as a "major"...remnants to push to the Carolina coastline before high pressure halts its northward advance**

6-Day forecast for the Washington, D.C. metro region

Today

Mainly cloudy early today with showers likely then partly sunny for the mid-day and afternoon hours, warm, highs in the middle 80’s; SW winds around 5-10 mph this morning; NW winds around 5-10 mph in the afternoon

Tonight

Partly-to-mostly cloudy and turning cooler, lows in the lower 60’s

Thursday

Partly sunny, breezy, comfortable, mid-to-upper 70’s for afternoon highs

Thursday Night             

Mainly clear, cool, upper 50’s for late night lows

Friday

Mainly sunny, pleasant, breezy, upper 70’s

Saturday

Mainly sunny, a bit warmer, lower 80’s

Sunday

Mainly sunny, even warmer, upper 80’s

Monday

Mainly sunny, very warm, lower 90’s

Discussion              

Hurricane Idalia makes landfall this morning as a “major” along Florida’s Gulf coast and will push to the northeast over the next 24-36 hours likely reaching the Carolina coastline by early Thursday. High pressure to our west will build into the Northeast US in this same 24-36 hour time period halting any northward advance of Idalia past the state of North Carolina. This same high pressure system will stay in control of the weather here in the Mid-Atlantic region for the remainder of the week providing us with comfortable temperatures as we end the month of August.

Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather