this is a tulip magnolia. this was taken march 2nd. this was was taken today. cold has done, unfortunately, to the beaut you can see this picture on my twitter page as well as well as others similar. now, tomorrow, we are warmer. it's another chilly start, not as cold as this morning, but you want the jackets. by the afternoon hours, we're in the mid-50s. some rain in the forecast on tuesday. some much needed rain. have the umbrella handy, though. next weekend, it's a tricky forecast. right now, it's looking a little chilly with a chance for showers saturday and sunday, but not a washout, so right now across the area, most of us already into the 30s rk, 38 in washington. 36 in winchester. clear tonight and partly sunny skies tomorrow morning. we are mostly cloudy in the midday and afternoon hours, but overall, not a bad day. by lunchtime, we're near 50. high tomorrow, 56, and we hit around pakistan in the afternoon. tomorrow evening, the cloud cover, it's not that bad. crisp and refreshing outside, but not bitterly cold like it was this morning. the weather cer

. >> and tulip magnolias got snapped with the cold. >> cherry months amounts have a little more endurance to the cold. >> headed to the pus bus stop we have a couple showers. relatively mild. near 50 this morning and we'll number the 60s this afternoon well into the 60s. mid to upper 60s expected and temperatures ten above normal. 50 washington. these temperatures not bad. temperatures not bad off form and west and right shower activity we've been watching most happening out north an west here we are washington you have to get up to 70 towards mt. airy and frederick and frederick county hagerstown shower activity and all of this is pushing off to the east and this is sort of round one of three rounds of light rain shower activity we're expecting later today. bigger picture. plenty of clouds. mostly cloudy day today. you may get sunshine and then round two rain showers and round three is actual cold front which will arrive overnight tonight early tomorrow morning and couple rounds of rain showers and tradeoff is warm temperatures around here with eyes expected mid to upper 60s. couple scat

tulip magnolia maybe. >> i'm exciteded about that and people pred that now that we're getting withining are these cherry blossom harmed by cold nights. not really until the peak bloom and bigger problem for the cherry blossoms is strong winds like we had today. so for the faultily they're not out far enough to be damaged by today's strong winds which were quite unbelievable and took done a lot of trees as you well know. this is good reminder if you have a lot of trees around your house it makes good sense to have arborist to look at them and look at the roots to make sure the tree is not rotting or ready to go on the first gust of wind. i have a lot of trees in my backyard and i have somebody come out and take a look at them i don't want to hear that crack and up fortunately it happened for so many people today. wind advisory stays in effect until 10 in the morning. occasional gust over 40, 45. maybe touching 50 briefly can't be ruled out overnight. generally they'll be closer to 0 miles an hour though and we're not quite done with the showers just yet. we may actually see a couple m

and with our spring, look at what it did to these tulip m magnolias. this was march 2nd. this was today. you can see the cold really took a toll there on the blooms. the cherry blossoms, a little bit heartier. they should be okay. in for another cold night tonight. look at your first weather headline. it's warmer by about 15 degrees. we continue to warm on tuesday. have the umbrella handy with some rain in the forecast. next weekend, very tricky weekend forecast right now. the computer models continue to be all over the place. it is looking like it will be on the cool side with some rain chances. at this point we really need the currently we are in the 20s and 30s. 27 in gaithersburg, 33 in washington. clear skies out there. we'll start off with some sunshine tomorrow. partly sunny skies, around 27. we warm up quickly. as we warm up, the clouds move in. mostly cloudy for the midday and afternoon hours. by lunchtime we are near 50. not so bad if you want to go out, grab lunch, get fresh air. 3:00 in the afternoon, the mid 50s. that's the high, 56. at 7:00 p.m. with plenty

toough predict because it's been warm r already and if you drive aroundd downtown washington, the tulip magnoliasually look like ifok f you've been down here and hopefully you have in springtime. it's just absolutely gorgeous. s and the varying dates really only affect those from out of u to who have trips planned to come to dc trying to time it to when these cherry blossoms are in full bloom and that's tough t to do. to here now is mike litter listittl with the national park service about what they're thinking ing terms of going into today'say forecast. >> historically the peak bloomeb curse between march 15 many ande apmaril 18th.l 18t. average date is april 4th. i don't think it's going come to any -- it's not going to come tm surprise to anyone given theiven mild weather we've had, the dowd right warm weather receive hadth the last few weeks we're w probably going look at a datet d prior to that april 4th ail average date. >> reporter: and this year ther national cherry blossom festival is march 20th to april 16th. so if these things are in full f bloom before the 20th it will il be before th

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