6:15 AM | ****Occasional heavy showers, embedded thunderstorms, more flooding potential, strong winds, isolated tornadoes...tropical depression passes by to our west...meteor shower****
Paul Dorian
6-Day forecast for the Washington, D.C. metro region
Today
Mainly cloudy, warmer, humid, occasional heavy showers and embedded thunderstorms, some of the rain can be heavy with additional flooding potential, highs in the lower 80’s; E-SE winds increasing to 10-20 mph; gusts to 45 mph
Tonight
Mainly cloudy in the evening with occasional showers and possible thunderstorms, some of the rain can be heavy, some clearing after midnight, mild, humid, windy, lows in the upper 60’s
Saturday
Becoming mainly sunny, comfortably warm, quite breezy, low-to-mid 80’s for afternoon highs
Saturday Night
Mainly clear, mild, low-to-mid 60’s for late night lows
Sunday
Mainly sunny, comfortably warm, lower 80’s
Monday
Mainly sunny, comfortably warm, lower 80’s
Tuesday
Mainly sunny, comfortably warm, lower 80’s
Wednesday
Mainly sunny, warm, middle 80’s
Discussion
A tropical depression will pass to the west of here by mid-day bringing additional heavy showers, embedded thunderstorms, more flooding potential, and strong winds through the evening hours…isolated tornadoes are also on the table. Scattered power outages are possible given the combination of saturated grounds and wind gusts potentially up to 45 mph or so. The heaviest rain last night set up across the western (Virginia) suburbs of the metro region where as much as 3-5 inches of rain was reported in some spots and the highest flooding potential today will be much the same region. The tropical system will continue its acceleration to the north-northeast that began late yesterday and, as such, will clear out of here by late tonight leading to big improvement on Saturday and also nice weather on Sunday. In fact, the nice weather that begins here early this weekend should continue right into the middle part of next week.
On another note, the annual Perseid meteor shower will peak late this Sunday night and early Monday morning and weather conditions should be quite favorable for viewing. For more details on the meteor shower, check out the blog here.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather