sue palka what's the answer to that one? >> shawn, you know you were right. some places are below freezing. but, here's the good news. today is the coldest day that we're going to have all week. so you know what's coming. in fact, we think it will be warmer around hereby wednesday. and that's some great news. and certainly the nights will continue to be chilly and tonight while the district is down to 34 we have several places in 20s including frederick and gaithersburg and westminster and hagerstown and get bundled up and there's a little breeze. it makes it feel like upper 20s already and especially thinking about those of you headed out to the redskins game that will start at:30 tonight. here is forecast. we expect temperature at game time kickoff of 31. it's obviously getting cold. good news is the winds are light tonight and temperatures will continue to drop into the 0s by the time the game ends. so you definitely want to bundle up for that. one of the colder games and not windy and icy. overnight, though, high pressure builds in and we'll get rid of th

pretty brisk but i love seeing the dusk >> beautiful sunset, sue palka this is sort of like the calm before the other storm. >> that's the second part our weather story. just showed the brush fire to story from tennessee. this is one of the reasons we can be grateful we got rain yesterday. because it does replenish the supply and help to get rid of the drought that we were in. nowhere near as bad as what happened in the gatlinberg area and on top of that the brush settled and we have a chance to dry out. we have a few clouds out there. but overall just a partly cloudy night. couple of snow showers that are coming across the st. louis area and streaking toward indiana and ohio. they will stay out of our way for the time being, but the forecast has to do with the next big weather story and that is the approaching arctic boundary going to be crossing our area tomorrow. quiet tonight. but we will be dry with an isolated shower would be very spotty, believe me, but we are going to be getting cold. let's check temperatures because at the moment, it's noto not bad as jim said, a brisk day b

sue palka standing by with what we can expect tomorrow, hi, sue. >> hi there, tony. we have to change the hash tag it's not winner coming it's winter here. >> you're right. >> it didn't feel like it today we got a pass in the temperature department you're right we were pushing 50. officially as we show you the summer solstice that occurred at 5:44 when the sun direct raise hit southern most point in southern hemisphere and considered to be shortest amount of daylight. but we are going to see days getting longer and hey when temperatures hit the upper 40s like we did today it's not too troubling to be out and about. meanwhile we will be on the cold side tonight but not as chilly as we have been other nights. and we've had a little more cloud cover around and while a little overnight we'll still see upper 20s like we're seeing right now and not too much colder. 38 for the district at this moment and overnight high pressure continues to build in. it should be dry again the clouds will stick around for a while and closer to morning we think they breakp a little bit and t

sue palka what's the answer to that one? >> shawn, you know you were right.ow freezing. but, here's the good news. today is the coldest day that we're going to have all week. so you know what's coming.

. >>> sue palka standing by with details on what evening holds in store. that's a beautiful picture. >> we're loving it shawn and sarah -- what show is this 5:00? now i know who's anchoring. hello. the sun set spectacular and i think this first sunset of winter is keeper if you're getting a great picture of it send it to me on facebook or twitter at sue palka fox 5 dc i'll put a little gallery together. we've had a lot of clouds, that's why we're seeing this beautiful sunset. a lot of reflection as sun is heading on down, thank you, winter. as a matter of fact, let's look at a weather maps because winter came in at 5:44. now the days will start get longer after this short day here, the we're seeing a lot of cloud cover. i thought this clouds would thin out a little bit more than they did. they have hung tough. at least we're not getting any of that snow they're seeing up to pennsylvania or perhaps you'd like some we don't have in the forecast. reagan and dulles as well as bwi getting up to 48. we would have been up and over 50 with a bit more sunshine, a f

if you get a good one, send it to me at sue palka fox5 d.c..orrow is the last day of fall because the winter solatesr so occurs early in the morning on wednesday at 5:44. we are two days away from winter. i think you'll feel the cold is backing off a little bit as weas get closer to wednesday. it's definitely blow average. it hasn't taken very much for us to start falling tonight.ar as we lookt at our temperature trend with the average highh being 46-degrees we're stil a little blow it tomorrow with 42 with a lot of sunshine and not much in the wind department it should feel pretty nice to you. wednesday we're jump it up to 50-degrees. thursday even warmer, 53, a frontal boundary may comeound through with one or two showers, not a lot and then friday we drop back down. as seeing a lot of cold air onon the weather maps there are spots.sp overall this definitely looks as lot warmer than it did lastt week. temperatures locally are mostly in high temperature 20 #-s north and west to near 30 as we get to d.c. south and east. we are going to see temp

sue palka is standing by with the forecast, sue, what's the latest. >> too soon for the scenes right there, sarah, tony. i tell you what the big headline is this one behind me. that is the single digit wind chills that will be living predawn tomorrow and the cold air is not here yet. we're also not seeing any snow showers yet. but it's possible that as that arctic front comes in later tonight we could have scattered snow showers around and our models have been insisting on that for about 24 hours now. not widespread and just a small amount. but we know that is does not take much when the cold air is coming in to create slick spots. cold air is not here yet. winchester 30. dulles 34. gaithersburg 34. that would be cold enough in a few spots. if we see snow showers to stick. one see very light snow. not coming to the ground yet. cold air is not going to be denied. it's 16 in detroit and 6 in chicago and it's zero in minneapolis. and 8 degrees below zero in fargo. that's the old care that will be here tomorrow morning. what about snow showers. well, radar is showing a few up in north an

all right, sue palka, can you believe christmas is just a feww days away. >> i could not.hought it was fourth of ist going, so quickly. > before you know it it withing fourth of july.th o but we are looking at l temperatures starting to moderate a little bit beginning tomorrow afternoon. aft cold out there tonight.toni i could see when lindsay was broadcasting all the steamng a coming out of her. pretty chilly. it is pretty chile i, mostchil places are in the 20s.s. heading down to the mid and upper 20 #-s and probably lowerl than that to the north and west. prepare for a cold start to your wednesday, hump day, the firstd, day of winter, everybody and we'll talk about that in a moment. >> but speaking of holiday lights, a lot of you have been sending me great pictures onon twitter and facebook. another display, this isis alexandria, virginia.ia he, says definitely cold outol here, sue, but a good time to see this house. yes, there is a house in theretr all lit up way in the background. incredible. lots going on in that picture. thank you so much for tweeting that to me and

sue palka, "fox5" d.c. if you get ate great shot. here come the clouds they thickening up overnight tomorrow morning hit or miss showers around and you see a little snow streaking across st. louis and i would not be surprised if some of our mountain communities get snow well and maybe a flurry here or there and mostly a cloudy start and chilly start too. sewn by dr. notices temperatures dropping 30 gaithersburg and winchester already and 32 dulles and 31 culpeper and so it is a cold start tomorrow morning and wait because real cold is still coming. overnight temperatures definitely going to be near 30 in many areas and our cold blast behind the strong front that again crosses early cold air lags a bill bit and friday, 30s and 40s and that wind will make it feel like it's in the 20s and in some indications the teens. so, here's where we get a few flurries tomorrow morning and showers from our area of low pressure and frontal boundary moving on by and big snow for eary and buffalo. lake affect snow machine will be really getting cranki

sue palka is standing by. a live look outside, absolutely georgous sky out there, sue palka. >> it is beautiful, shawn, jim you know what today is. >>. >> what's that? >> best someday of the week. >> okay. >> warmest day of the week. downhill from here sdmru got that right, jim, i'm trying to make an easy slide for you. we have got a lot of changes coming this week. that's for sure. and you know, today's high temperature got up to 56. very nice after a few morning showers that amounted to .16 or under two tenths of an inch. we got to sunshine and that got us to 56 reagan national. dulles and bwi 5 and believe me by end of week that will feel positively tropical. temperatures are slow to fall tonight. which is lovely for a running around getting any errands done. you don't have to deal with bitter cold temperatures or rain showers or even big wind. all of which are in our forecast later this week. meanwhile, and flurries too, by the way. meanwhile 46 frederick and 46 whip chest and d.c. at 52. we will be gettin

put a bunch of pictures ontus twitter sue palka fox5 d.c. d if you get a good one send itd to me.t we'll put together a nice n gallon regent since we arencwe e basement dwellers and can'tnt d see thatwe beautiful view butiet you're right matt it is i definitely deceptive. decepti while we're still in the 40's'rt the wind chill is reallywinds picking up. let me show you the highhe temperatures today. remember, this fondly because we're not going to be able toisn do this for g a few more days. reagan 48, dulles 48.uls check out the cold that's t the district has dropped toas dt 45. there's the arctic boundary.y. pittsburgh 26. columbus 25, chicagocago 22 degrees, oh, just a couple c more hours before we really rll start to feel all of this ands honestly you'll feel it if you u step out now because the t temperature is 45, winchesterche now down to 36, martinsburg maru 38. hagerstown 36. westminster 36 and the wind t wn chill because the gusts arethe r picking up to the low and mid-20's, that is also aa factor. fact martinsburg and hagerstown a

. > sue palka is here with an update on the winter weather. >> hey, sue. hey, this is the warmest i've been all day. you had to watch the 10:00 news to get the reference. if you're not much whatting you don't get it. you have to much what. we've had a bitter cold night. we have a lot of single digits and teens, in the wind chill department, the temperatures bitter. let's get you started with a look at the current temperatures and we've got gaithersburg down to 12-degrees, 12 in martinsburg, 10 in winchester, 19 grows here in d.c. mighty cold tonight that's for sure. and what a dramatic change in 24 hours. last night at 11:00 it was 2 # degrees warmer than it now. almost 32-degrees warmer in frederick burg. plenty of places seeing single digits even though the winds have gotten much better. still a cold day tomorrow, not as windy as it was today. so that will help the wind chills not to feel horrendous. let me show you what you can expect for the kids at the bus stop tomorrow morning. air temperatures between 12 and 20, wind chills five to 206789 after scho

wind chills that may dip in let's talk in with sue palka to get an update of what you can expect when you walk outside. >> a shock to the system. the wind makes the difference. if it weren't windy it wouldn't be so difficult. we have many places down into the low 20s. a quick check of what's going on. we've had a blast of artic air as you mentioned come into town. we did have a couple of quick flurries and showers that also came through with them and at clearing and we'll see the breezes continuing overnight with the flurries confined mainly to the mountains. this is the actual air temperature, 28 in winchester, 30 gaithersburg, 3 # for dulles, 35 in did he d d.c. and with these gusts still up and over 25 miles an hour this is what it feels like. 18-degrees in gaithersburg, 19 in winchester, 24 in d.c. i'll show you that tomorrow morning at 8 we're talking about mostly wind chills in the teens and that will continue most of shawn and tony. > thank you very much, sue. still to come tonight, a virginia school district is making an about face after yanging some classic books out of its l

would want now it remains to be seen whether they can actually reverse it >> let's check in with sue palka and get the latest on the weather. not too bad for the first day of winter >> i think mother nature took it easy on us, we were about 11 degrees warmer than we were yesterday. and another bonus is, tonight not going to be quite as cold as last night and night before was when we had temperatures dropping into the teens. it will still be chilly. we're going to go see temperatures ranging from upper not quite at cold but chilly, and what about thursday? well, looks like we'll get a little bit more sunshine out of the deal despite the fact that a frontal boundary is going cross us in the afternoon and that will pick up the breezes. if you don't like breezes, take an extra layer along, it won't be that cold of day, 38 at 8:00 in the morning, 46 by noon, we should be able to get up and over 50 here in the district. but again, with some breezes out of the northwest at 20, 25 miles an hour tomorrow afternoon. it's a frontal boundary swings on through without any moisture, you'll definitely fe

lets check in with sue palka and see. >> it's a short visit. we're going to see everything getting a little bit more comfortable as we get later into the week. specifically we're talking about wednesday seeing this artic air kind of leave town. this blast isn't kind of bad as we had before. it's not necessa but wednesday when you'll notice temperatures getting a little bit easier to take and at least it's not windy tonight, right in it's 31-degrees here in the district. we do have a few places near the freezing mark, but a lot of other places have headed down to the low and mid 20s including winchester at 23, martinsburg 5 and gaithersburg 5 with quantico coming in at 32. there could be a few places in the teens tonight, upper teens to mid 20 #-s, the range. that means it's a cold start for sure tomorrow morning. we've had a few clouds coming through tonight, but high pressure is eventually going to build in and we're going to have a settled nice day tomorrow with teens and 20s to get it started. while you'll still want the kids to have the hea

sue palka standing by with it latest on the weather. >> it's just can you believe that bar down thereazy. that is, it was actually entertaining. and you know what? ronica will not want to pull that stunt coming out without a sweater tomorrow or -- that should be one of several layers you wear because the arctic air hasn't even arrived yet, sarah and jim. still coming in. we're 44 in the district. you'll know when this comes on, there will be no mistaking. it's the coldest air we've seen six years in december and certainly the coldest air all season, it's important to know that we could actually see snow showers later tonight, maybe just enough to cause slick spots on untreated surfaces, certainly very cold and windy all day tomorrow, temperatures in the 20's, but windchills in the single digits and teens, and we have another chance of some accumulating snow saturday. that will be brief and change over to rain by no later tha right now. 11:00 in the morning. so we want you to be aware of that as well, and that's a look at your weather headlines, jim, sarah, back to you. >> thank you. >

. >>> sue palka has another look at what is in the store >> hi there. sarah and tony, tonight not too bad. we will notice those winds picking up. this is what you can expect tomorrow morning, take a look at the bus stop forecast, air temperatures between 22 and 29, windchills between two degrees and 15 degrees. it stays windy all day, after school, not much better, windchills will be about five to 18 degrees. that wind continues through the nighttime hours. we've also got a chance of some accumulating snow on saturday morning, we're going to talk about that and show you a potential snow map coming up in a few minutes. sarah? >> if you have a story idea, please call fox 5 tip line, 202-895-3000 or e-mail your tips to >>> 15% of people are unable to cope at christmas, 17% feel loanier at this time than any other time of the year. part of the problem is over, you know, high expectations. surrounding the christmas holiday as well as the financial pressures that handy people face when trying to get loved ones th researchers found family commitments are major

. >>> let's get another check of the weather with sue palka see how things are rolling out there when it comes to rain. >> the heaviest of the rain now beginning to push over to the east side of the region. east of 95. and we think that trend will continue. the we have the side we're down to light rain, showers, drizzle. fog will set up. st. mary's county. bottom line, this is going to be winding down just as the rush to have drizzle and follow later tonight because the area of low pressure that brought us this hard to to deal with but beneficial rain is just off the coast. we've had a problem with icing out to the north and west that advisory stays in effect until midnight for the icing. tomorrow, 8:00 in the morning, cloudy at 42, by noon, the sun is back, 48 and we should be able to climb into the low 50's tomorrow by 4:00, 53 degrees. we've a lot of sunshine. coldist air moves into town more on that later tonight. back to you, jim and sarah. >> thank you, sue. >>> as always, we want to hear from you, tweet us your thoughts and anything pilot, anything we're talking about here toni

let's get to sue palka first for update on the rough weather and what you can expect tomorrow morning sue. >> hi there, shawn, tony. it looks like everything will settle down tomorrow morning and interestingly these heavy downpours with strong and gusty winds that came through the ea you will be hearing more about this in a moment. and we got a report at 6:1 gusts near 50 miles an hour that did roof damage in the 400 block of cedar street taking off roves close to tacoma park. very isolated. most saw gusts between 30 and 40 miles an hour and now heavy rain pushed away from the area and although there could be one batch later tonight. you can see the showers over on the other side of the bay. and while we but this in motion you can see that it has been so the heaviest of the activity is over. however, the frontal boundary is still back to the west and it is possible that there could be one more last round of some gusty showers that move to a little bit later tonight and you can see approaching interstate 81 we can follow the line with the frontal boundary all the way down interstate 81

good news is we are not going to go see those brutally cold temperatures, let's check in with sue palka. if you liked what you filter, temperatures were about 11 degrees warmer. a nice easy start to the season, typically associated with the colder air, we had planet of that earlier this month and the solstice occurred at 5:44. this is our first night of astronomical winter. not bad today, 48 degrees at reagan, dulles and bwi. that's about three degrees above average and definitely a whole lot warmer than it was yesterday. 45 degrees is where our temperature is right now. we've had a deck of clouds around today. so that has prevented us from seeing those temperatures falling too fast tonight after that the sun has gone down but we definitely have places in the 30's and if i have good news, how about this change in temperature? we're 11 degrees warmer than we were 24 hours ago here in the district and generally nine to ten degrees warmer elsewhere. so not a lot of wind tonight. we will have clouds that will stick around, really hung tough today got a little bit more sunshine. we managed t

. > let's talk about the weather, sue palka. >> weather is cooperating for people who are already on the move for their vacation.. 270 spur today, a disaster. > they were going south? >> thewere going to south. > i'm going north tomorrow. there was -- seemed like a lota- of traffic. it would seem to me- that the big travel day would be friday. i think people are on the move this week already and theread weather is going to really givei you a big assist in thatn department because it's pretty r quiet around the area and, in fact, our big weather headlineeh is we're going to start warmingt things up just a little bit. we even have diminishing chances for showers as we get into the holiday weekend which we'll talk about more in a moment. mom meanwhile these are the high temperatures today.ures that's cold and last night we we had a very cold beginning to the day with temperatures droppingte into themp teens in many areas.a it's cold out there now as well and we tonight. 34-degrees already in thees a district. the winds are light, but even ee with a light wind and clearlea skies that win

let's check in with sue palka. we're starting to see the rain lighten up quite a bit west of interstate 95. but it's still raining pretty hard) across central maryland. you can see what i'm talkingtalk about. you can see the bright yell owes that extend just west off salsbury down to 95 righto through portions of spotsylvania and down into king george, some heavier rain there, but as you look west you can see it's quite a bit lighter out towards interstate 66 and out towardtowa front royal and harrison bug b we're seeing some showers right now. that's the way it's going to push to the -- from theth southwest to the northeast across calvert county, maybe c lower portions of prince george's county and into southern anne arrundel county.nl we have been continuing to watco what has been going on out ton the west.th there has been some mixed precipitation. it is winding down, but you're still under a winter weather a advisory because we've had somed ice building up and there are some ice storm warnings in effect.effe th

it is cloudy, but some bigome changes are in the works.or sue palka got an update on a bitter blast of cool or she's got an update on a bitter blast of cold air. it will be here by this time tomorrow night we'll start to see pretty significant changesns and by thursday morning no denying that ou about six years in december wilb have arrived in d.c. we're calling it a piece of the polar vortex, that big dome of cold air that rotates up near the artic and a little piece ofe that visits by thursday and friday. it will be bitter cold. criming to jump you forward towd tomorrow night about this timeie where wind chills will likely be in the 20s but it gets worse ass we get to thursday morning. within chill temperatures in the single digits, cumberlandberl showing up at 6 blow zero washington feeling like 11 and that will continue all day longg i wanted to check temperaturesk right now, too, because it'sit's mild in comparison to wherehere we're going to be thursday. 34-degrees in the district, but somedist places are close to the freezing mark and there haveer been a couple of showers moving

let's get right to sue palka for an update on this, hey, sue. >> sarah, tony, we are head lining the fact that those wind il take tomorrow. many places will wake up tomorrow morning to wind chills in single dij digits and it's not quite here yet cold are air a couple hours away temperature here in d.c. is 41. that front will come through between 2 and 4 in the morning and when it does we could also see some snow showers with it. and that's what the crews are worried about. it doesn't may much to cause slippery problems. they'll monitor for that all night. and boy the big story really is the cold airen ait looks like endless supply of pink on the weather map. because it goes up to canada and ina lass ka. it's truly arctic air coming in and real shock to the system. because not only is it coldest air is then but coldest in december since 2010. we have acouple of snow showers up towards baltimore. some not hitting the ground. that's the kind of thing we have to keep an eye on tonight. there's another little batch towards west virginia and you soo see where rain showers are developing so

. >>> let's check in with sue palka, she's in position now to tell us about the forecast. hey, sue, position >> that's going to be my new twitter handle. i love it. it speaks volumes. the best thing anyone on her called me, let's go to blossom for the forecast. so that didn't happen tonight. good now, shawn. dealing with another frontal boundary that may cross tonight with an isolated shower, but more importantly, it is going to make us on the chilly side as we're going to see our temperatures heading for low 30's much later as crowds also increase, that could mean a stray morning shower tomorrow, with afternoon clearing and temperature about 50 degrees, but that's very deceiving, because another front comes through and it's really going to start to chill us off later in the day, we're going to be seeing our temperature drop about 30 degrees tomorrow night and only 42 on 40 on saturday, windchills in the 30's, that's round one of really cold air, a second comes in late next week, we'll be watching late sunday into early monday for the possibility of mixed precipitation. lo

. >> you can push him offer the agage now.h hi it's your turn suee palka. pal >> i cannot abide.t id go right back to him.. no, i'm just kidding. [laughter] >>> it is chilly out there as as jim mentioned.oned. we've got temperatures thatt are falling into the 40's andted it's been little bit breezyitezy and the breeze is coming from cn that area of low pressure thatea passed us by yesterdayte breeze going later tonight and a it will be back with us back wiu tomorrow but as a result of o that many system pulling out out of town and skies clearings out we are going head for the 30's to near 40 overnight soig that breeze will be around andwi it will mllake it feel eveneel n chillier. most of the area seeing windinwi chill temperatures closer toerat 40 degrees right now. tomorrow morning 40 degrees isds where we'll start out at 8:00 80 with lovers -- lovers- rs sunshine. by 4 o'clock about 52 degre i think our high temperature tomorrow about 53 which isic very close to average for that a december seconds.december s okay here we go.econ running through its decem

it's been a chilly wiw,nd out ii there today sue palka. pal >> it is 44 degrees and a lot al of suburban areas in the 30's,a sara and shawn feeling likelingl they're in the 20's.in t 20' here comes the first arcticst ai blast that we've seen, the seen, coldest air so far this seasonsa and it's going to continues tott get colder and colder tonight tg as we see this northwest wind continuing dropping those windr chills by 11 o'clock into the t cold start on your friday frida morning. let's give you a look atmo whatt you can expect again. aga any flurries will be confinedesw to the mountains. we had a coupliltoe t of quick c showers of rain and snow come ri through earlier todayn but nown we'll be just dealing with the clear skies and the coldol temperatures and your friday fra morning is going to start on a o real cold note. coldote. in the city 32. cy in the suburbs, 20's feeling fli even colder with those teensns around for the early morningorni with the wind chill. wind l. we're still breezy at the noon o hour with a temp of 39 degrees. b

si >> absolutely you do becauseelau sue palka it's cold outside. it's going to be like this thi forks what, at least anotherlett day. >> another 24 to 36 hours shawn so you know, whatnow, destination botanic gardens. gas >> there you have it. there you >> i love to be warm.it that looks great. i lovoo gre tomorrow will not be as coldl nd as today but it will certainlytn be another very frigid dayig d here in d.c. d.c want to just show you the highhg temperatures for tomorrow soes you have an idea that we're f talking about.bout. low 30's, maybe some upper 20's again tomorrow, very,er very cold day. cold day that is for sure but the windshw will be getting a little bit better. and we're going to see a day sey of transition as we get backac into the 50's on saturday butda it little bit of a price to payo as this area of low pressureresr tracks well to our west it'st' going to push warmer air on air top of the colder air. bottom line we have some winter storm watches posted to t our north along the mason dix md couldn't line from midnight tomorrow nig

.>> i w please welcome sue palka. pal >> thank.>> t.ngery bn wind chills.g >> yeah. >> does it feel like.es it feel lik >> still feels like the teensee and some single digits.meingl do you think we oversold thisd s or. >> no. >> has it been exactly what you expected. >> oh, yeah. >> you said it was going to be cold.t been tit wheays think that t perception of what we actuallycl get is so much stronger son basically than what i described.bed. >> this was brutal.his waruta >> good news is you said it would only be two days.oay >> that's the only thing ihing i heard. >> shawn moved right to thehto h good stuff.good s. tomorrow will be cold again as well. if i have any better news it'sye not going to be quite as windywd as today was as you saw a fewsaf minutes ago i showed the factac that we had plenty of placess getting gusts over 50 miles an5s hour today but it's betterte w.w. so, still cold tomorrow.row. but the jet stream is going tont bring in a big and dramaticramac change in the temperature department by saturday afternoon sunday we'

sue palka standing by with the st.est. >> i'm feeling so self-conscious now.self >> you're beautiful.ou >> is this sweater makin'rge me look frumpy.ru >> no.o. >> you're perfect. >> it's all about >>me. ye. >> beautiful. >> we'll get right back to the weather because we have a gorgeous day today, rigr dbeidw sarah and shawn but late thisat afternoon a strong front came through and it's really gotll the winds going and now we'ree' going to see temperaturesra dropping again. again it's going to head for theng t 20's and low 30's tonight.ight 28 for hagerstown, 33 for d.c. hey, typically cold for thishi time of year.ear. here's what you can expect on your friday. 35 degrees at 8 o'clock in the c morning. by noon we're 44. and by the time 4 o'clock, about 47 degrees and not too bread breezyb during the day tomorrow. we will notice the cloud tsheuds increasing though tomorrowh t afternoon but friday is dry iry but as we head on into our holiday weekend expect somet s showers on christmas eve morning. morning. i think any time from 4:00 a.m. or 5:00 a.m. until aboutilt noon or 2 o'clock the

. > i'm sue palka with another check p oaflk your weather fore. we're going to run you through your weather headlines. if you like today, i thinkday, you're going to enjoy friday.idy the end of our workweek is going day.da it will be a little bit chilliet and that's because we are noticeably colder tonight. we are heading for the 30s.0s the breeze will be back tomorrow. it will lighten up a little bita i as we go through the overnight hours. sunshine will be back in the morning and it wall be on the breezy side tomorrow.ide on a day that will featureture temperatures in the low 50s you need to bundle up for that because it will feel closer toos there mid 40 #-s.-s what about the week almost another and it will stars on a sunny note. there is a very slight chance oe showers late in the day on sunday. but definitely don't think of ti sunday as a washout. we'll have a look at your sevent day forecast coming up in just u few minutes. all right.ght. it's a sign the christmas seasos is officially upon us. tonight the first family flipped the switch to l

let's get to sue palka first for update on the rough weather and what you can expect tomorrow morning sue. >> hi there, shawn, tony. it looks like everything will settle down tomorrow morning and interestingly these heavy downpours with strong and gusty

. >> we had rain in this area and let's check in with sue palka and see if very have more on the a way and chilly out there. >> hi there, sarah, jim, we seat the rain coming as temperatures drp a bit. i'm glad they were able to rescue that man and they looked like they didn't want to get in the air lift. it won't be flash flooding rain it will be badly needed rain around here as we may pick up a half inch to one inch of rain and starts tomorrow morning. you'll get through the rest of the night dry. today's high temperature, 57. not too shabby. average high temperature is in the low 50s as a matter of fact it's at 50 degrees right now. we had rain last night mixed morning and don't be surprised if the rain we see tomorrow also shows up with pocket ever sleet in it. temperatures now 52. few spots in the 40s tonight and it's not going to be as cold is tonight you notice clouds are filling in, too, that will continue to thickening and increase as we go through the night. tonight we'll stay dry. there's the rain though. it's pushing into western portions of north carolina this is area of lo

let's check in with sue palka to find out what we can expect when we wake up in the morning. >> tomorrow not bad at all. there will be clouds around and it is getting chilly out there tonight but nothing we haven't seen before. you are hinting at the big changes that will come later this week when a piece of that polar vortex is going to visit us, bringing us definitely the coldest air we've seen saffron the coldest air since 2010 in december. here's a look at high temperature today's, we had a little bit of rain to start the day but then a lot of sunshine broke out this afternoon, and helped to get us up to 56 at reagan dulles, 53 b w i right there as well and as we check temperatures right now, it's not now. dc is 48. winchester, mart inside berk, 41, dulles 43, we also have our school spot lik and culpeper 36. we're going to go see clouds around tonight and tomorrow but that really cold air that shawn was referring to that piece of the polar vortex, that crosses us wednesday night and we're talking about temperatures that will be more like january on thursday and friday. 30's and 20's

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let's get right to sue palka foa the very latest on the cold weather. how cold is it out there. >> you are looking at the temperatures behind me. these are not the wind chillil temperatures, these are the actual air temperatures. just about everybody down intoto the teens tonight.s if i have any better news at '8w instead of seeing winds gustingi up and over 40 miles an hour,r, the winds are much lighter. let me show those to you. we're still gaithersburg 2 #, baltimore 20. but that's a whole lot better than it was for most of the day when we saw the really strongea winds causing problem. this is a 10:00 wind chill number it's 8-degrees in the district. it feels like 2-degrees blow zero. martinsburg, 14, winchester 12, obviously a very cold night andd quite a change from 24 hours ago when it was still in the 40s and we were waiting for this cold air to role into town.to that it did, but a headline foro tomorrow, while it is stillll going to be a very cold day, it will not be quite as windy on friday. wind chill temperatures in 2009s and twenties as oppo

. > well, a few of you are seeing some showers this evening in in the meantime sue palka says a bitterlast of cold air is heading our our way and will arrive in the next 24 to 36 hours. sue joins us with more. mor >> that's the kind of thing youu can give us plenty of notice on. until you feel it this is a bitter that's what will be in thursday morning. in the meantime it's not too bao out there and we do have a couple of very light spottyt showers that you can see on radar. mainly they've been through central virginia and lower southern maryland.ar they're not going to amount to much tonight and they're going to be gone by the time you start your morning commute. especially down to the south you can see very few of us have actually seen anything and there have been a couple of flurries up to the north and east. if we see anything tonight it would be rather harmless. there is a front that is going to move on through and it's's possible that some areas north and west could see a little bit of flurry see activity. you can see a couple others starting to bubble up in the sheen and dough a

sue palka is in the weather weah center and she's tracking it it all.re terribly windy but we're notot dealing with the snow and we'll show you a couple cold col spots coming up in a littleng ut bit. tonight it's all about theall ab wind and i'm happy to tell you we're going to start getting ati little bit of a backing downng d of the wind as we go through thu the night and during the day tomorrow. some of the peak wind gustsf th today, though, prettye significant including up and over 50 miles an hour winds r gusts at reagan national, at dulles, at brookland park which is in annees, aatrrundell county, quantico nearly torly t 50 miles an hour and bwi att 46. better now but and as the sun s goes down we'll see thoseee winds getting a little bit easier to take but our but temperatures are still in the teens to 21 degrees. what a cold shot.grshot. so, did we oversell it or not? we gave you several daysave notice that this was coming but until you t rhaeally t feel, wow, there's nothing like feeling that 26 miles per hourep wind gust come through all a you

a something like that.ing li tha usually sue palka goes outut there. i have no idea if reagan national 55. nat what i'm saying is watch it onai our news people, 5 o'clocklock tonight. ton dulles is 51.igs1. bwi marshall is 52. it really gets you in the y spirit. here's the weekend forecast. wec 50 degrees on saturday.reesn sa saturday looks pretty goodrettyg certainly dry with a fewainldryf clouds but it does look like l we're in for a really a nice nic day. little cool, very fallish. flish sunday is tricky because itecau looks like definitely we'reli going to have a lot ofke d cloud not much sunshine.not much s the big question is -- ands a we've had rain in the f for sunday afternoon, sunday s evening pretty much all weekprec long but beginning to see hopefully a little trend hereend where the rain is backing offff a little bit for sunday. sday. so, right now i'm just going to call for some late showershoe possible on sunday because, again, the trend seems to be to for this next system to be just a little bit slower bit slr getting in here and if so,

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