ava marie joins us live this morning from timonium. >> good morning. there have been a couple of spring goes this morning. been a couple sprinkles this morning. stay tuned for details on the forecast. we're previewing a big dog show this weekend. it includes three different clubs.lubkennel you have brought the your beautiful westies here. >> that is right. [no audio] there will be a lot going on in this weekend. there are specialty shows on friday. you might want to check to see if you're breed is having a show down in the cow palace. up the hill, we will have the columbia terrier. >> where are you going, danny? he hears the birds. >> different dolls will be shown all weekend long -- different dogs will be shown all weekend long. >> for young people interested in showing dogs, there is a junior handling on saturday and sunday. they might decide that is something they will take an interest in. >> it is happening at the timonium fairgrounds. do they not like they should be in a commercial? >> watch out if a squirrel runs by. thank you. that will be a gre

we'll come back and check in with ava marie. >> good morning. sarah caldwell checking on your morning commute. . accident in linthicum heights. the northice start on and west sides of the beltway. 60 miles per hour around franklin boulevard. traffic is picking up down towards the beltway. east andgreat shape west down to and from the beltway. a nice start on the other major roadways. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. now we check in with tony. >> good morning. a little bit of light rain to start the day. you can see these bands of showers coming through. it is not raining everywhere. willnk the heaviest rain miss us to the south. thatis the same situation produced rain in augusta, georgia. you can see the back edge approaching maryland now. the storm will push off the coast and we will see sunshine through the cloud deck. most of the cold there is locked up in the northern plains and back into the rocky mountains. -- most of the cold air. we should get temperatures above average was the storm moves off the coast. 53 in taneytown. 56 in roc

we check in live with ava marie. she is in fells point this morning. >> it is not a bad start to the day. temperatures in the 50's right now. we have some rain chances in the rest of the seven-day. i am live with the urban pirates this morning. i f captain peppercorn here -- i have captain peppercorn here and clumsy carl. this is a fun event. so many different activities. >> we have a lot of free entertainment. the pirates royale. all sorts of free entertainment to watch on the stages. children's activities and the craft and food vendors. >> you will be doing some cruises on the pirate ship. >> this is our big first opening weekend. family adventure cruises during the day. >> i need to give you a chance to talk. theare looking forward to storytelling for the kids? >> we will make up something and let the kids jump and and make sure everybody feels involved. >> a lot of fun history at fells point. basically the pirates authorized to help out from the government. is to be our president be ourers -- these would resident

. >> now your 11 insta-weather + forecast with meteorologist ava marie. >> a beautiful weekend, nice sunshine, comfortable temperatures. a little bit of payback with rain to start the day, but it's always good to help the plants grow this time of year. still seeing sunlight rainshowers out there. these shades of green near glen burnie and light showers tracking through the rest of anne arundel county just south of annapolis and some spotty once popping up east of the bay. nothing major at this point. these are basically starting to taper off as they move out towards the east. we're going to see a warming pattern for the next few days. let's dig a wide you to see what's happening. the area of low pressure is way down to our south come off the coast of the carolinas. this spinning right here is the pressure moving off of the coast. it was able to draw enough moisture into the mid-atlantic to produce those rainshowers. we also have another storm system to the west. this cold front is marching across starting the position in indiana and lower michigan. the back side of this is where we a

. >> now your 11 insta-weather- plus forecast with ava marie. >> earlier on i showed you the radar and it did not show much happening around baltimore. i change the settings on the radar and we can look at things in a more sensitive mode. lighter precipitation just around the baltimore metro area .owards dc the shadings are more filled in, the steady rain across the lower eastern shore into delaware. still in baltimore you are facing drizzle and mist and fog in some light showers. this is what we have to deal with as we go through the afternoon. eventually we hope for this pattern to clear up going into tonight. and that will mean drier and warmer weather for the next couple of days. right now with the clouds in the rain we are facing some very chilly temperatures. we are only in the mid 50s across the region, this is basically where we started off today. your temperatures have not changed that much. they are basically holding steady, and that is normally what we see in wet weather pattern. , 57 at bwi thurgood marshall. ,aking you through the evening by 3 p.m., highs near 60 degrees.

ava marie has more on the forecast.or aare getting ready big event happening this weekend at fells point. i'm hanging out with my own , captain peppercorn. this is a fun festival. pier have the children's vendors.s and food lots of things going on. >> beer is known as grog. i love that. you will be reading pirate stories. time will do pirate story and magic shows and airbrush tattoo s. >> we're here with ranger vince . there's a lot of history in the days.e tieriering of 1812.ve the war we have our own tall ship, the pride of baltimore 2. you can charter for day sailing. we have activities for young people. .t is a positive weekend some physical exercise. a sailoras like to be during the war of 1812. >> activities from friday night into sunday. there were pirates that worked ok by the government to help them out in their naval resources. they were called privateers. >> all hands on deck. thank you, ava. weather-wise, yesterday we had some drizzle. 51 in parkton. 53 in rock hall. it will be warmer today than yesterday. t