the one caveat, no sunshine. 14 june 20, the solstice, the longest day of their, just shy of 15 hours of daylight and 14 plus hours of daylight all the way until august 6 when we see the daylight drop. rain,llen, despite the still high, mold moderate and grass is low but once we see more sunshine eventually break through we will see those categories coming up as well. live camera at the torpedo misty., gray and low-50's, areawide, the numbers not moving. 54 in manassas and fredericksburg. yesterday, more warmth. the north, northeasterly wind will keep us gray and unsettled. a few speckles around the area but -- freckles in the area. the upper levels of the atmosphere. as it sits there and swirls, we watched the winds come around us in a counterclockwise fashion , bringingthis flow moisture from the bay and bringing us rain and by tonight and tomorrow morning, heavy rain. today, more spotty. by tomorrow, the heavier slug from east to west will overspread the area and tomorrow could be a soaker. what you see is what you get for the next couple of days, today and tomorrow, not out of the

rise and it will continue to climb over the horizon earlier with every passing day until we hit the solstice. we are still gaining a minute and a half or so of daylight with every passing day. it does than the sound like much but it does feel good when that sunnies only going down at 7:30 at answer lieutenant earliest these days. storm scan three nice clear skies, high pressure toys thank for that and continue will keep control for most part through next couple days. we will see a cold front crossing through later in the week, specifically friday into the weekend. we can see heavy then are storms rumbling through the central plains. it is their time the of the year to see that. however we may end up with thunderstorms ourselves toward end of the week. here's another beautiful shot taking a live look outside kutztown area middle school. we have sun popping up over the horizon here, officially popping up over the horizon in 15 or 20 minutes or so but because we will see full sunshine here today and because we are going to heat up, efficiently the health report becomes more important to show. s

we're about a month till we get to the summer solstice, the highest angle of the year. let's show you what's happening on satellite and radar. showers and storms west of the appalachians but for us high pressure is in ctrol. we're looking fantastic here for this shower with temperatures that have climbed in the upper 70s and low 80s. it's going to be a fine afternoon. mid, maybe a few spots in the upper 80s thiser they'll be southwesterly. 5, 10 miles per hour. and the showers, they're going to start to move in over the next few days. get the wusa 9 app because i know you always can't watch us on television. you'd be able to track first alert doppler along with getting our video weather webcast and of course the all important 7-day forecast as we head through the memorial day holiday. speaking of the memorial day holiday, i'll have a closer look at thunderstorm chances through the weekend coming up in a few minutes. >>> today is national missing children's day and to mark the occasion, wusa 9 is continuing its commitment to the children and families in the dmv by recomm

. >> the solstice on june 20th. summer weather. i'm safe with that. l certainly have summer by june, but between now and then it continues unusually cooler than average and the mid-70s and as we look at the storm team 4 radar we continue to see the rain passing off to the north and east. as we look in the awesome video, this is in portland, maine. there was a police officer parked with his dash cam and that lit up the landscape. we'll repeat it here a couple of times and slow it down. it was brighter than lightning and it completely lit up the sky and it looked as bright as the sun and it was seen from southern canada, all of the way down to northern maryland there were reports of people seeing that. the radar showing this rain continuing to track off north and east all a part of this disturbance that's just been plaguing us here for the last day or so and it is drying out north and west and we'll be driving up to 270 toward frederick and we'll be driving out of the rain and going out to route 7 and by the time you get to leesburg and 66 and by the tim

that has to do with the summer solstice next month. they are furious. other than king arthur came out to protest on sunday morning. we won't accept that man. i thought this was so funny in terms of the mix of british monty python eccentricity and british understatement. listen to what kate davis had to say, the stonehenge general manager. they core number of our visitors were inconvenienced. they were generally understanding. a lovely piece. that look at the press. for a closer look at the press review, check out her website. the address is france 24.com. coming up in the next half-hour hour, historic cruise set sail for cuba. the first in over 50 years. stay tuned. °c >> hello, i'm john cleese, and i do hope you will join me for an exciting new television series, a unique inquiry into human consciousness itself. now, you're about to see an extraordinary program, a studio conversation that you may never forget. so, settle back, take a deep breath as we join our trusted guide and host, phil cousineau, on a most memorable episode of "global spirit," the fi

. >> anthony: in preparation for the summer solstice ceremony, game like rabbits and packrats are collectedhat there's some droppings, fresh droppings. if you see the droppings, you know there's one around, and this time of day, they're going to be inside their homes. there's too many predators around. >> anthony: it's not easy. once your find a nest, you gotta dig after the little burrowing bastards. you hack. you dig. you dig some more. >> ivan: it's a lot of work for a small rodent. >> anthony: i was just thinking that, yeah. >> ivan: that's what our ancestors had to do sometimes, you know, when times got hard. right now, there's this drought going on and if we didn't have the grocery stores -- >> anthony: right. then hopefully, you flush one cleanly. >> ivan: oh, oh, oh. did you get it? >> man: got it right there. >> ivan: ah. >> anthony: and give 'em a good whack on the head. the ratio of work to protein is not in the hunter's favor. >> ivan: its whiskers and a little bit of his tail and plant it back in here. >> anthony: to ensure a generation of this once vital source of food, tradit

steamy, pollen levels moderate, uv index is awfully high and we will get closer and closer to the somer solstice you sun block required. every day in the seven day in the 80's. we are expecting a couple scatter showers and storms along the way but overall holiday weekend is looking pretty nice. meisha, over to you. >> loving that forecast, thanks katie. >>> still warm outside, take a look, schuylkill taillights moving in the westbound direction at the boulevard, yes, indeed as we push toward 9:00 o'clock hour it is still looking hot. disabled tractor trailer on kelly drive we had it outbound hunting park avenue disable tractor trailer has been now cleared but you can see still very slow moving around there. also, there are some cleared in blue bell, completely cleared when hoover road and skippack pike. great news in that area we go to the wide it is still looking very slow out there especially on the schuylkill. over to you. >> that is "eyewitness news" for now, join us for "eyewitness news" at noon. i'm jim donovan, make it >> this is iceland! >> announcer: follow us into rugged landscape. as

let's go ahead and take a look at the official beginning of summer yes we're coming up on unofficial start this weekend. june 20, 6:34 on button when summer solstice take place. meanwhile throughout the day today there will likely be a scattered showers or thunder shower and many of you eek out some sun. tomorrow, 86 and sunshine and we'll easily feel like the 90s with temperatures that hot on thursday and friday. maybe a heat-driven thunderstorm either day, too. >> i welcome it even if it were 90s i welcome it. a lot of construction out there. this is one area schuylkill eastbound near the blue route. the left lane is compromised. you can see crews getting that out of the way. malfunctioning traffic light from from an earlier accident. we had dmroding on 295, 25 northbound broo 168 use caution in this area. it's since cleared. it givers you an idea of who it with be like out there. jim, over to you. >> thank you, meisha, if you head out the door stay updated with the forecast on the sister station kyw news radio 1060. >> also a former secretary of environmental protection, markingen versey of battle ship until energy and a study saying philadelph

the in we will set at eight credit 23. june 21st official day of summer solstice that is latest the sunsets around here coming in at 8:33. something to look forward to their. rear gaining just shy of two minutes of daylight each take but that number will start to go down as we head towards start of the summer season. those are snow showers reaching the ground, in western pennsylvania, and temperatures, now you across these areas are in the lower 30's in some locations, so i80, reduced visibility there with snow showers but delaware valley still dry but one of the stay sprinkles could run in our region this afternoon. overall in the a bad day for baseball but it feels more like football weather, game time today 1:35 against the reds. they can go for sweep, 58 degrees, game time temperatures, partly sunny skies, breezy at times. rain chances today, 20 percent chance for that isolated sprinkle, we're dry tomorrow and then tuesday and wednesday we will bring back 50 percent chance of showers and our next storm system heads in the region. you can see cloud build autopsy cross the region this afternoon. here comes the spotty s

the month 83:00. june 20th is summer solstice when sunnies a at its latest point. we are coming in at 8:33. amount of daylight of the year. we are gaining about, a minute and a half of daylight each day. that number goes down as we head toward official start of the summer season. they have got the game in yesterday. great job there. today should be no problem. we are just dealing with scattered showers, 62 degrees at first pitch with the braves at 1:30. just have that sweat shirt around or punch o, just to dodge those rain showers. eight days until memorial day, hard to believe but it is here. hard to get in the mood for summer. thirteen days until we average 80 for the high. we will hit 80's later this week. thirty-one days until sum air lives. fourth of july just 43 days away. best chance for showers this week will be today, chaps decrease tomorrow 30 percent chance, can't rule out a spotty shower tuesday. wednesday looking good. low pressure slowly exits the north east but we have energy lagging behind it. we have clouds, pop up showers even tomorrow afternoon across the region. tuesday

the year for daylight perspective any way. as of today, we go to 14 hours of daylight. sun up at 6:05 and down at 8:05. by summer solsticeys are 14:54 long and we stay with 14 hours from today all the way through august 6. three months of long days. outside this morning, though, the sun may be up, but you won't see it today. cold and wet. temperatures staying nearly 20 degrees cooler than average today. not the expecting any heavy rain, but it will be cold and wet. so if you have something to do outside today, i'd plan on bringing that in. same story goes for mother's day finally a little sunshine coming back in. radar shows most of the light rain for now is out in the southern parts of the shenandoah valley. west of luray, those raindrops going westbound. the area of low pressure is back here. so big counter clockwise swirl around there. see this to our southwest, that is the plumb of moisture which will eventually come our way late tonight and into early tomorrow. so the heaviest rain likely from about sun down tonight through about lunchtime tomorrow. here is the way today goes. these showers here early this morning m

the corner. officially it does arrive in less than a month, monday june e morning. summer solstice will occur. rain chances, 60 percent chance for showers today, they will start to lower tomorrow. we will give it a 30 percent chance mainly monday afternoon. and then not going to rule out shower or two early tuesday morning but i think, we really to start to dry out, wednesday is looking much better. slow moving storm system tracks off shore but we still have the upper level energy over us right now, and it brings the cloud, still some left over showers, tomorrow, that energy is still on top of us, and with daytime heating, we will see some pop up showers, developing, a and mid to late afternoon, and then tuesday we do see that sunshine starting to return, as high pressure builds in and then it is just locking itself over our region for several days. cool pocket of air over tomorrow, and still tuesday, and then wednesday, it lift out, jet stream on the move, lot of warmth coming at us. it will be on the very warm side, temperatures running in the mid 80's. today, it is will cool 68 degrees, a f

the books. now some more milestone to look ahead, may 30th is memorial day 21 days from today, summer begins on june 21st, some are summer solstice his three days, 53 days until fourth of july. summer is flying by and it hasn't even happened yet. we have a look at some storms in dallas as, some storms in the north in omaha, nebraska, rain in ohio, virginia, none of it expected to make its way here. we will look at the future cast, we will see increasing clouds this afternoon. filtered sunshine but still a excellent day, tomorrow morning, rain a lives, probably before the morning rush hour, but it is not a lot it is just on and off, on and off some sunshine in between through the day on tuesday and on wednesday but thursday looks good. lets get right to that seven day forecast and she you what we're talking about. eventually we will get cloud cover. 72 degrees today. we will still go with the nine out of ten, tomorrow 64 degrees, it is a cooling off with some showers and then warms up gannon wednesday with some showers in the forecast and high of 73. thinks nothing like last week because thursday we had an excellent day and a dry

the long range. rge >> my colleague mike thomas whot put together all these maps toat on facebook a week ago. ago summer solsticemmertime,me june 20th at 6:35, so we'reo w less than a month it way now until first day of summer.f sum of course, this is the time of o year when we get the most solar radiation in the northernhe norr hemisphere as we get intore as t summertime months and for that t heat and humidity around here with, you know, possibility --b- isn't a nice map? he did a good job witness maps.job ess maps. let's break it down for you.owny our summer temperature outlooklo calls for well above normalve n temperatures across the midhe atlantic.atlaic in fact much of the countryou looking at well above normalve n temperatures.temperat i've look at plenty of private i companies forecasting as well a the national weather service.. just about everybody is general agreement that we in the midin atlantic will have warmer thanrn normal temperatures.emperature we got very warm temperaturespeu unseasonably warm temperatures m off the coast and those will help exacerbate some of thecerbe temperatures around here a

solstice. upper 40's for reading and allentown. forty-nine in philadelphia mid 30's for mount pocono. we have cold air in the upper midwest.hirty-five in minneapolis. thirty-six in chicago. that cold air still has to filter through the northeast. it will take a couple days. rain and even snow showers breaking out in central pennsylvania it is possible we will get a spring until here later this afternoon. very isolated. do not cancel any plans you have outdoors. other than that sunshine mixed with clouds. you can see clouds building later today, mostly staying to the west across the mountains of pennsylvania, and then high pressure starts to build back in tomorrow, and this keeps us dry. so monies good, still a cool start to the morning but the afternoon start to rebound to the mid 60's, and then once that area of high pressure moves off shore that allows the next storm to move in which is wrapped weather pattern here every couple days storm system moves in, more showers for tuesday in the afternoon lingering into wednesday. today though much cooler, upper 50's to lower 60's, that is it, at best. tonight, 30's or 40's for l

solstice coming. by this time tomorrow we'll likely have some showers moving in. right now 60 at reagan national. 50s about everywhere else. panhandle of west virginia around then the upper 50s as well. the storm team 4 four-day forecast with the sunshine highs reaching upper 60s during the afternoon. that occasional shower moving in around 7:00, 8:00 tomorrow morning and off and on in the mid afternoon may settle down a bit late afternoon. then some more showers coming in tuesday night and off and on on wednesday. highs both days just maybe around 60 degrees. then drying out wednesday afternoon. sun back on thursday and friday. highs near 70 or so and some more showers for the weekend. that's the way it looks. >> all right, tom, thanks. >> thank you for being with us. we'll see you again today on news 4 at 4:00. >> don't forget you can get all your news and weather updates on our nbc washington morning. we'll be here. pat will be here later ♪ >> announcer: today on "the meredith vieira show." you won't believe what one woman confessed to doing every single day before work. and "today" matt lauer and savannah guthrie are dishing about and behind the scenes dri