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just focusing on the weekend at this point, see if we can get some of the soccer games in for the kiddosrrow, you're probably going to be in pretty good shape. i'm explain in just a second. zoom in on the cathedral. it's been nice today. temperatures really warmed up. up to the northwest temperatures were a little bit warmer. let's show these temperatures. highs today reagan national 86 degrees. dulles 86. bwi marshall 87. but we had some 90-degree readings back to the west and the northwest. so very warm today. but the relative humidity stayed down nice and comfortable. we're 73 now here in town. manassas 70 degrees. dulles is still up in the middle 70s. eventually overnight tonight these temperatures will be able to cool down in the 60s. mild tomorrow. so we're going to be cooler than where we were today and, yes, we will have some showers but it's looking like right now most of the showers should hold off until late in the afternoon. we could also have some thundershowers too. that doesn't mean that we might not have a couple of isolated or widely scattered showers for the first part

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