tom kiernan joins us with the first forecast of midday. >> we've had a bit of sunshine breaking out over the last hour after a murky start to the day with low clouds, even a few sprinkles around 6:00 this morning. those are long gone now. as we look at radar, it is scanning the sky, no more precipitation now. and the temperatures, they're againing to climb as sunshine breaking out. hitting the mid and upper 60s throughout the region. right now 65 at reagan national. and it's already near 70 in the central shenandoah valley. ought to hit the mid-70s there in the next few hours. mid-70s in the carolinas and tennessee. farther to the north, cool, 50s, across the pennsylvania border. and over the last 12 hours, we've had the cloud cover coming and going but right now quite a bit of cloudiness over the mountains. that's going to move back in. not a lot of sun this afternoon. cloud cover in and out in the next hour but mostly cloudy after that. just a slight chance of a passing shower this afternoon. as highs climb into the low 70s around the metro area, warmer farther to the south. southerly