. >>> meteorologist topper shutt over in the weather center. topper? >> a new tool we got.erek, we are very excited about it. 9wusa 9 news now interactive radar. it is free. go to our website wusa9.com. on the home page and also go to weather, go to the weather tab and then just scroll down to interactive radar. here what u yoget. a detailed map of the meo area, your hbodneigorho and also the entire country. biggest storms t righnow are up towards hagerstown , erwalesvlkpe, ilr up, frederi countyr pe momegory county toto the north east. mirth anwill will be just st tiithsvi e.ma s testorm estimates as to stwher fo edhe anad isergood r fo the entire unco coscroll aro the way down. you can get a national view. it is good for the golf course l and seit is good for s wh iatit i at grandma's house. check it out. for us, we have a few showers and thunderstorms in the forecast particularly tomorrow. 86 on thursday. good chance of storms. slight chance on friday. also 86. right now we will keep saturday dry at about 90. tonight partly cloudy. a bit muggy. isolated shower or thunder

. >>> i'm meteorologist topper shutt. next three dares a chance for a thunderstorm tomorrow. upper 80s and just a slight chance on saturday and sunday. we start to heat up. high temps over the weekend around 90. we may start a little streak of 90s. muggy and few storms tonight. some could be hefty. low temperatures 65 to about 70. winds easterly at 5 to 10. let me show you live doppler 9000. we do have a couple of storms building back to the west and these are the ones we are going to be watching now. we have a couple of storms moving eastward. this storm is exiting southern maryland in reedville. we are going to zoom in. first puts this into motion. where will the storms go? this one moves pretty much east. most of the activity is moving generally east as the cold front finally begins to work his way from west to east. we will concentrate on these storms. one downtown and one in fairfax county. this is a pretty heavy storm just south of 66. could have hail in it. moving off to the southeast. this indicates motion. headed towards 395 between dc and the beltway. and even just

on /d >>> i'm meteorologist topper shutt. here is your forecast.hower or thunderstorm possible tomorrow but few and far between. 86. then warming up a little bit. upper 80s on thursday and friday and much better chance for showers and thunderstorms especially on thursday. talk about that in a minute. forecast in detail. overnight. partly cloudy skies. shower out. everything is pretty much north of baltimore now. winds still southeasterly at about 10. tomorrow morning partly sunny, mild. slight chance of a shower. 60s and 70s. i think it will be dry tomorrow. by afternoon partly sunny, little warmer maybe a shower or storm and, again, primarily in the mountains and west of i-81. for the most part west of us. high temperatures 84 to 88. winds go back to the southeast at about 10. microcast. clouds in the morning much like today. tomorrow we will see clouds and breaks in the clouds and sun. sprinkles up toward frederick on wednesday. thursday a different story. take this by a grain of salt. thursday evening in the early part of the nighttime we could

. >>> but first, topper shutt. >> temperatures almost 10 degrees below average today, lesli. just spectacular. wusa9.com. click on the weather tab and go down to weather data for the almanac. record high 100. we will come back and talk about cooler air for a little while longer and then summer is lurking. it will kemaom ck. aaceb stay tuned. (announcer) if you think all batteries are the same, consider this: when a tornado tore through holly, colorado, air life denver took to the air... their night-vision goggles keeping them safe on a perilous flight... and powering those precision goggles--- is the only battery air life trusts: duracell. broad daylight or the darkest night... it just has to work. duracell. trusted everywhere. >>> living the frugal life in tonight's living smart focus, it has become the new normal in this economy and now there are two new websites to help you do just that. you'll find free samples and products at freestuff.com and also enter contests to win gift cards, vacations, home makers and more by clicking on his better help, mrs. sweepstakes.com. you

. >>> couldn't ask for a much better day, topper shutt. >> this would be nice for june let alone july. low humid, low 80s, lots of sunshine. we will keep it going for a little while. forecast first. tonight partly cloudy, cool. lows in the mid-50s in the suburbs. that's crazy. mid-60s downtown and winds out of the north east at 10 0 e en th th ndows,turn th thac hegi br t por grid a eabrk. 79 ght w now downtown. 81 in rgle an. inmbu i manassas. feels so comfortable. we will come back and we will talk about cooler air then a touch of summer rolling in. we will also give you a tip on how to find a green job coming up. >> thank you, topper. appreciate it. have a new tool to help you navigate the tricky job market. we will show you how to use it in 90 seconds. >>> later on a ste attakes on the definition of marriage. >>> 9news now sponsored in part by the cochrane firm. >>> welcome back. leaders of the eight of the world's largest industrialized country posed for photos as the g8 summit. they walked today with a big agreement on climate change. for the first time they agreed on aiming to

i'm meteorologist topper shutt. 86 tomorrow. thunderstorms pretty good bet tomorrow. 86 on friday. a chance of a couple of storms. and then we are going to dry it out on saturday. temperatures once again around 90. we hit 90 today. third time this summer an only the fourth time this year. so we are still well ahead of the game so to speak. tonight, partly cloudy. a bit huggy. showers out. all gone. low temperatures 66 to 72. and winds southeasterly 5 to 10. 75 in vienna. down 95 towards fredericksburg also 75. tomorrow morning partly sunny and warm, dry. 60s and 70s to start. by afternoon, though, partly sunny and warm. categorical tomorrow storms. most of the storms have been west or north of us the past few days. by lunchtime a couple of sprinkles down to the south maybe down towards charles county and st. mary's county but for the most part we will watch a line develop. you folks have been hit with storms really all week but this will be a pretty good line out in the mountains. but unlike today and tuesday and monday the line is going to move eastward as it flows to northward. s

. >>> and i'm meteorologist topper shutt. here is your forecast first. the next three days tomorrow a couple of storms. 87. and we may embark on a streak of the 0s saturday and sunday. not upper 90s but around 90 saturday. maybe a stond a and a couple of storms possible on sunday also around 90. weekend either side of me, we are looking at the forecast for tonight overnight in detail. partly cloudy, muggy, some showers and thunderstorms. low temperatures 65-70 and winds easterly at about 5-10. let me show you live doppler 9000. the storms are not severe. they have all kinds of lightning with them and they have some very, very heavy rainfall. rainfall rates 1-2 inches per hour. this is a live picture now mainly moving towards baltimore one batch. another batch down south. this batch will move further south and east and eventually down st. mary's county. and those will move up into baltimore and over towards mount airy. we'll zoom into these storms and we're looking at rainfall rates 1-2 inches an hour. tremendous amounts of rain crossing over 301. and we'

. >>> i'm meteorologist topper shutt. here are the next three days, your forecast first. 81 tomorrow. a shower possible. but, again, few and far between. and it will be golfable. mid 80s on wednesday. maybe a thunderstorm. and then upper 80s on thursday. a little bit more average, if you will. we've been pretty lucky so far this month of july. only two days -- only two days in the 90s. we averaged 14 days in the 90s on average. all right. forecast in detail overnight, mostly cloudy, comfortable. showers primarily west of town. winds northeasterly at 5-10. let me show you live doppler 9000. and most of the somehow twerz in the immediate -- showers in the atimdimee metro area are gone. we hadeadi hvy rain down south. and now serving out to the west. and primarily that's where it's going to stay. we'll put this into motion over the next hour or so and we'll see all of this activity work its way on the west side of i81 and up towards cumberland and eventually maybe towards hagerstown. but i think in frederick, leesburg, down

. >>> so far, no rain either, so meteorologist topper shutt is on the terrace with your forecast first. no umbrella. >> no, actually not bad. a break in the clouds here. there are some showers to the west, but i i tnkhin town we're going to be saved from showers. forecast first, for tonightn we'll say partly to mostly cloudy. mild, i suppose i could say muggy. we'll keep the chance of a passing shower in, but the storms are well west of us. low temperatures mid-60s to low 70s downtown. and winds out of the soueast at 10. satellitpie ur a and radar tmbowedsh, eroofsh tf t west and east, but a lot of breaks in the clouds and everything is moving fthm n s too t if you look to the south you seeere bakor ms breaks cl .dsou clouds. live doppler 9000, at one time,r andar hdy and hardy andampshire were under severe warnings but that has died down. we'll come back, show you a very nice best shot, and a look ahead to the weekend. summer is, as you mightt ehiecxp it, lurking, finally. ec thanks, top >>> it's a package deal, a pair of pets, unique pets, looking for a new home and the humane societ

meteorologist topper shutt on the terrace with your forecast first. don't have the umbrella up yet. >> i have it handy. and i would keep it handy the next several days. kind of the same pattern the next few days. here's your forecast first now. for tonight, mostly cloudy skies, it will be fairly comfortable, though, despite showers and clouds. temperatures still go too down into the 6 -- go down into the 60s. winds at 5 to 10 ut of o thef north to northeast. lot of moisture streaming northward.no hotelyeavyrr auglt southern maryland has heavy rain. rain to the west and sou otof .wn live. dpler 9000. you see a lot ofct aivity aut oi o ghway 6. dararandd,ea hvy ow ers in chlesou d cnty,own tordwa benedict,rdvein erythgs r o the north, actually north northwest at 10 miles an hour. we will come back. we'll talk about this pattern, when it's going to break, and if the clouds will keep the temps down all week or are the 90s lurking around the corner. that and cool video from arizona coming up. . >>> and a huge brush fire threatens to cancel flights in and o

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we get the latest from topper shutt in the weather center. >> good news is the warnings expired but bad news is we are not out of dohe twoods yet. want to go back in time and show heyou the lightning. this is ouabt the time t hamavepry havemabeen ckrustruo na l.ess a couple things. lightn g heisinmb t1 ernu ll here hein teofrm s wer-at d teenevts. and you can see right rehe this is just outside the beltway is where congressional country club is and when we show you this, this is really serious stuff. let's go back to the tape if we could. this is where it was hit earlier. this is now live. we still see lightning off to the east and off to the north west but the lightning earlier this is right around congressional and, again, this is cloud-to-ground strikes. when thunder roars go indoors. let's go back to the computer now. this is live. pretty good thunderstorms just north of andrews and up by as well. tonight, we are not done. ourg, dymuggy. low temps 65 to 70. let me show you live doppler quickly. we are looking at big storms. i've got to tell you these are big storms that rolled out o

meteorologist topper shutt on the terrace. >> we have thunderstorms west of town primarily. same pattern as yesterday. some will creep into the metro area. we will start e thwn a little t 7:00 p.m. ist.ated thunderstorm possible. kind of warm too. upper 70s, lower 80s during the game. i understand ofatthtickets arev at ailable. for tonight partly cloudy. a bit muggy tonight. isolated shower or thunderstorm here. lows 66 to 72 and winds so to at. l y at 5 up leof shs erowsher dethrmun thunderstorms etpretty close no cumber . ermblaland. we will come back and introduce a very cool product for you web users. it is free and i think you are going to love it. that's all i'm going to say. >> there was a bright star in the sky. it was as dark as night. >> still ahead. millions witness a once in a lifetime solar eclipse with both excitement and some fear. >>> investigators raid the ndn's physician. what they were looking for is coming up. fab@b@ >>> the winning streak is over on wall street. for the first time in more than a week stocks lost ground. dow finishing the day down 34 poin

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