culpepper county, no severe storm. right around culpepper and up to the north thiss a storm that has been dying out but still bringing some rain to places like leesburg and charleston. a good idea. need a little bitff rain your lawn, i'm sure and also some shower activity over towards herndon and falling on the very white side. this is from a frontal boundary and i'll show you this in as econd. going to give us a much better chance of storms tomorrow. a high tomorrow of 15 degrees and 88 out at bwi tying a record high temperature. winds out of south at 12 miles an hour, the clouds coming from aose storms that have formed off to the west i want to show you how they will be playing out by sock tonight. all out of here by 10:00 tonight. isolated parts into northern virginia. most of them out of the woods as far as rin concernsgo. by 8:00 tomorrow morning, no problem with the morning rush. you'll be able to get out a-okay. any 't think we'll seeing wet roadways out there but watch what happens early in the afternoon. 1:00

these are al around fredericksburg, spotsylvania county, culpepper area. that's about it. y take a look at the wide area, you notice this line, this unsettled weather, this is a frontal boundary moving down across our region. this is a trough of low upressure. yo can see the jet stream moving down to the south and back up to the north and around our region. that's going to give us the health to provide us with those showers and thunderstorms tomorrow. some of those could be strong, possibly severe. we may be weather alert tomorrow. chuck bell will be in with you tomorrow morning starthd a 4:00 a.m. with the latest on this. as we run through 4:00 to 4:30, as we move on throu the day tomorrow through noon no problem. we're high and dry right on through the noon hour except foi areas west virginia and petersburg. around 3:00 we start to see those storms devels and they're ong. already severe at this time in parts of the area coming through the metro area around 4:00, 5:00, 6:00. of course during that evening so watch out there. of course i'll be with you all afternoon on twit

specially in the usual parts, manassas down through culpepper down 28 going out towds annapolis on the water. you're dealing with patchy fog this morning but you're also dealing with temperatures that are warm.in fact, by 9:00 a.m. temperatures will be in the low 80s. heat index around 100 degrees. let's time out those storms today and tomorrow. that's coming up. but first we'll time out your commute with melissa. good morning. new issue, outer loop 50 left side blocked by a stopped car. rest of the beltway looks okay. capital heigs, addison road near ronald road crash. northbound right side blocked by an accident there. and fairfax old lee highway near rebel run downed tree and power lines. head a little north, herndon, the access lanet impac as well and two right lanes. >>> 4:32. this morning amers across the country are looking ahead to tomorrow, the day we celebrate this nation's independence. >> where better toh spend t fourth of july than right here at home in the nation's capital. there is still plenty of work to be done and there's some controversy as well. take a look, new vid

he writes very tellingly, now i i not sure of all the money i spent on culpepper was worthwhile.truth of the matter it was. but for exactly that reason because washington also was a gentleman and i'm not suggesting that townsend wasn't or anything like that, but you're right, that concept that it is beneath me to spy. i think frankly today it is .till true >> now, this is directed towards the french. in the world wars, do you think if we would and have cried out for french to help us, do you think the wars would have gone quicker and more swiftly? >> the french government was in a position where they were not adequately prepared to actually declare war on the british until after the battle of saratoga, where the american forces proved they were strong enough to defeat an army in the field. and it was really touch and go. i mean, we came so close to dissipating totally as an army that it is remarkable. fascinating aspect of saratoga is historians estimate that 80% of the gunpowder used by american troops during the comprised theat onetoga campaign came from company. that allowed b

are trying to move up north towards our region, so in our southern zone, talking about areas like culpepper and fredericks burks you folks have better chance of seeing storms. we're not seeing a lot here. we actually got a pretty good break. i'm going to wait and see if we can get m somere development here over the next one to two hours. this will be this area right ere that comes in overnig tonight and really gives us a lot of rain. because of that we have a flash flood watch in effect and still a lot gng on. t out of the woods just yet, but i think as far as the rush goes, the evening rush, weather-wise, we're looking good two hours. one to >> good to know. thank you, doug. even as we have more storms approaching, local in our area are still cleaning up after a line of storms that moved through last night. strong winds, rain and lightning brought downrees and knocked out power. three big freeze landed on this one home in bethesda. a lot of roof were also damaged by falling trees. still expecting more rain tonight and that could make a bad situation even worse for ho e of these homeowners

notice the temperatures to the west. 67 culpepper, 68 degrees gaithersburg. think many of you will wake up to the low 60sarly tomorrow morning. even cooler on thursday morning. so some pretty nice weather over we next couple of days. not much in the of rain right now. we did have a lot of rain down in our southern zones earlier. the only thing raining is right along the eastern shore toward the chesapeake. we even saw a water spouse a little earlier down toward parts of the chesapeake bay. water spout down there as aul re of some of the storms and the rain throughout the day. here it is. you can see all that rain in our southern zones today. we had a couple of showerswn our tern zones as well. but they got out of here pretty quickly around the d.c. metro area. just saw the cloud cover and that's why we saw temperatures so cool today. this same system that came through us prausedrn two toes up toward cape cod. just amazing. ef1 tornado up there with winds up to 110 miles an hour. for us we're watching that whole system move out and this system has literally cl

right now look at culpepper, down to 69. most areas will be into the mid to upper 60s. d.o is efts mild nht not much in the way of clouds. here's awe're going to be watching this. as a storm system is making its way across the middle part of country this will give us a chance for some strong to severe thunderstorms on thursday. that t something i'm goingo be tracking for you very, very closely and thursday could be a weather alert day as a result. and we're also tracking what's happening right now in the trops. this is a storm that believe it or not came across the middle part of the country, down through the atlanta area, and now exid into the gulf of mexico. watch what happens here. this is one computer model. taking this off the panhandle of flida. creating a very strong tropical storm or hurricane. look, this would be an eye right here. some computer models have this going up to a category 2 or 3 hurricane. others kep it more of a tropical storm. 90% chance from the national hurricane cenr to become barry by tomorrow afternoon. we're going to be tracking that very c

already feeling like sfi in manassas, 90 in culpepper.÷@vk" going to be right around 90 degrees.he pool, it's going ke"táhrough the wee.we head 4@ we have a stray shower. mainly south and west of d.c. as we head through saturday and hasunday. we lower humidity on saturday, sunday not too bad. both days looking dry. here's that lonely shower i was talking about, in shenandoah county. that will continue to float toward louy. anyt showers we see are going be south and west of the district. we also have barry. still tropical storms, the pressure is dropping little by little, not too much, and as the pressure drops, this storm intensifies, it's not ver organized. it doesn't really matter, eithe way, 245ir going to get flooding cght along theast of louisiana. newest update from the national hurricane center has it going up to a category one. as it makes landfall early tomorrow morning. i'll be with you tomorrow morning to cck this out as well. we're more interested, onceiÑÑ hits landfall, where does that moisture go. it looks like it could head into our area. that could be something

heat indexesor over 100 now most of prince william county, quantico and culpepper. 96 the expected highay and chance of stronger thunderstorms as well. storms just starting to get going around petersburg, west our future weather model as one pop up here between 1:00 and 2:00 here in north prince george's county, head into the city of baltimore by 2 or 3. another scattering of thunderstormro starting ad 3:00. prince george's county, montgomery county to frederick. that may leave the immedigte washin area alone but more storms firing from winchester to leesburg to frederick 5 to 6. and they could brin showers around 8:00. can't guarantee we won't have an olated thunderstorm or two. stay alert. we will do it all over again tomorrow with the risk of stronger storms perhaps mid-afternoon tomorrow. then the humidity goes from crazy, ridiculous oppresveo just plain miserable. and temperatures climb from mid-90s today and tomorrow all the way to the upper 90s and near 100. 99 friday, 101 saturday, none of those would be records national airport but we could set records at dulles international a

we're watching this right around culpepper. the lightning? as it moves up towards route 17 we'll continue to watch it it could be a little st this is continuing to move. to the north and east. this line will continue impact us, closing in on the beltway. just around 5:00 p.m.,if not or bef you can see it cross the beltway. we'll continue to see some thunderstorms throughout the afternoon, evening, even into the late evening. i don't see this getting out of h until later on, after midnight. once we lose the daytim heating, we've got a little disturbance rolling through tonight. we lose the stronger storms with the daytime heating. gom going to keep a chance for the overnight hours. it shthould be wrapped up by tomoow morning. another thing not wrapped up -- the heat. what you see in the orange is e heat index and you can see these numbers right here, that's what it feels like out there, a little cooler in the shenandoah valley. but this goes until 8:00 p.m. tonight. even overnight it's going to feel like we're in the 8s and low 90s. right now

into thunderstorms through thedo shenan valley, some possibility of stronger storms as far east as culpepperym. 3:00 p. strong storms near dulles airport and popup storms potentially right over downtown owashington, dtown baltimore and this hit and miss area of strong thunderstorms right during the peak of the evening e commute, tween 4 and 6 or 7:00 p.m. so keep in mind, that threat of severe weather will then progress on to the eastern shore. things should turn quieter later on in the evening. a lot of rainchances the next few days. this first round of storms today will be the most likely to have severe weather with it. another stormy day coming on friday. hit and miss showers on saturday. sunday still looks to be the drier half of the weekend and next wook lks like it will be plenty hot to get the month of august under way. good morning, melissa. >> good morning, chuck. first 4 traffic alert, couple different problems on the beltway right now. capital heights outer loop left side two lanes nowlocked by an accident there. and landover, outer loop after central avenue left side blocked by a

but if you've got fireworks and more around redericksburg you could run into big problems around culpepper. if this shifts farther east you see what we're talking about. the problems there, even by 11:00 tomorrow night seeing some storms. so your fourth of july fireworks forecast, temperatures on the warm side. 87 degrees at 6:00. 85 by the :00. good chance of showers, by 11:00 they should be done and temperaturewise we stay in the upper 0s to low 90s. the heat index into the mid 90s. good chance of storms just about each and every day. it's july in washington. >>> thank you. >>> a deadly week on our local waterways, six people have died in water-related inciden. ahead at 5:00, the warnings we've got for anybody thinking about going out on the ter. >>> and you may be grilling your burgers all wrong and it could make you sick or worse. we're going to explain. >> . >>> you may belanning a picnic, but are you planning to get food poisoning. 40 million americans get it every year. i thatone out of every six of us. and if you're grilling, there are more things to watch out for. nbc's sarah dolo

it feels about 100 degrees in washington and 94 in gaithersburg d 39 in culpepper, so just no relief ini ght. the nights are not cooling off and the days arely extreme hot with a high temperature tomorrow of 100 degrees. you want to keep the dog in mind as well. e asphalt when it's this warm gets extremely hot. 1943 degoes orer. put the top of your hand down on the asphalt to check it. if you can't keep your and there for seven seconds, too hot to walk your dog on. warm weather alert mode saturday and sunday and maybe a few late day thunderstorms on sunday, and monday we start to transition to more comfortable weaer with some showers and thunderstorms likely. the humidity, more on the humidity monday and tuesday, and talking out relief when it arrives and all that have coming up at 5:50. erika.d thanks, amelia. >> a d.c. woman chose it's never too late to chase a dream. ahead at 5:00, the 71-year young grandmother and the special moment today well worth the wait. >> plus, celebrating the lun landing while looking ahead to a mission to mars. coming up, the mans for food on >>> going t

cleared out a lot of the fog, but still some fog wn in culpepper county. 75 degrees is your temperature out there. it is muggy. it damp. and we're going to continue to see that humidity on the rise. in fact, by this afternoon, it will feel like102 degreest times. now, after 3:00 p.m., we'll have those storms pushing in from the west and we're going to keep a f chance otorms pretty much throughout the evening. your beach forecast, small chances of storms for your thursday. slightly better on friday. even more likely on saturday. temperatures in the low to mid 80s for the maryland and delaware aches, but let's talk about the fireworks display for us. are we going to see any storms around? wcohave the timing ng up, but let's talk about the time you need to get to work. good morning, melissa. >> good morning. if you're headed to work using the beltway, looking good this morning. if you're headed out to the 3w50e67 that looks good right now as well. tou don't want to leave, though, after noon ay. it is just going to be jammed trying to head out to the eastern shore. it will be a really busy

as a matter of fact, a very nice afternoon. 6 in leesburg and 85 culpepper and 86 towards huntingtowne average high is 87 so we're right around aage for today. we've been above average for so long. take a look at the radar. nothing to show you in our area. or the next dayr so. this is tomorrow. again, here's tomorrow morning. future weather, timing it out for us through 00. no problem through 1:00. tomorrow, another great day to get weather outdoors. we're going to start the heat up quickly and with that we'll see a couple of showers and thunderstorms developing. most likely in our western zones in frederick and leesburg and winchester around 4:00, 5:00 and around 7:00, 8:00, 9:00 tomorrow evening and notice these are few and far between. this is not a lot of rain. only a 20% chance of those storms happening tomorrow. tomorrow wednesday and thursday a little bit of a differentry sto we're tracking a few systems and back off to the west where they are trying to make it our way. a big ridge of high pressure which means warm air is starting to build in the middle part of the country. 90

you can see the meager showers into parts of fauquier county and down into parts of culpepper countyappahannock county. real know big deal with these, but i want to show you what the big here are the temperatures and the heat index. based on the humidity and temperature combined, friday, saturd and sunday, so we're near and around 99 degrees each and every day atfriday, sday and sunday, and it's feeling like 110 on friday. 111 on saturday and 110 on sunday. this is dangerous heat. you'll definitely be under a heat advisory as well as the storm team 4 weather alert on these days. we may even see an excessive heat watch which could become an excessive heat warning issue for these days and if it were any w day itld be especially saturday. >> look at the big tubing or radar, look at that. the mugginess isyw everre. it feels tropical out there and feels tropical tomorrow morning. already near 80 degrees us a start your day at 7:00 a.m.,o outdoor exercise isn't even enjoyable in my opinion when it's this hot and humid. lunchtime 91 degrees. mostly to partly sunny skies throughout the day.

,t again, ju fantastic as far as the afternoon goes, and around the region 84 martinsburg and 58 culpepper and 88 in huntingtown. now we did tell you that things will start to warm over the next couple of days and that's still the case here.ne ohing we won't see today or tomorrow is any chances for storms. nothing around our area today. tomorrow we may see ome back towards the mountains and back towards petersburg, west virginia and most of us remaining on the dry side. it's thursday that we'll be watching. again, nothing arnd our region. not much in the way of cloud cover. a few cumulus clouds, a couple of showers back here towards the mountains and we could see a few tof these duringhe day tomorrow. this storm right here, this will bring a cold front across our region during the day on . thursday that will bring the chance for severe weather. you know what else i'm watching. travel down to the south. areas in portions of the southeast, and a storm system coming down from atlanta, came all across the country and moving down into the gulf of mexico and watch what happens here. this the sto