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County over the next hour. Downpours and thunder and lightning coming on you through. And today, it will be a short sleeve day as we say goodbye to summer. A steamy afternoon. Another hot day coming up. And some afternoon storms are looking likely. Probably not as strong as they were yesterday. And this morning, off to a mild and muggy start. Its around 70 Shenandoah Valley into the mountains, closer to washington, mid70s around the bay, southern maryland, Northern Neck. And the eastern shore. N...

Hiker who became trapped on the rocks along the Potomac River reporter a sad day after a crash involving three teenagers. And fire on the water, an explosion sends a boat up in flames and passengers scrambling for safety. Good evening. Im andrea mccarren. Bruce johnson has the night off. Severe storms rumbled across a wide portion of our area this evening and now some scattered showers will linger through the overnight hours. First alert meteorologist erica grow has the latest on our yellow aler...

Partly sunny, 86 by noon. A high of 92 or so. There will be a few storms around this afternoon. This morning its muggy. 77 in washington. 72 in leesburg, fredericksburg. The cool spots in the mountains are in the mid60s. Theres a lot of humidity around and even showers and storms especially to our south. A lone shower this morning tracking this one which has now left Prince Georges County. You see it toward Anne Arundel County. So this one continues to move just north. It will be approaching are...

Maybe download our weather app if you havent. Lets show you whats happening. If you havent been able to get to the the beach, this is the scene from ocean city right now. Looks like a decent day there. Certainly theyre not going to be as hot as we are. Theyll hold in the 80s. The storms that im tracking excuse me i tripped over something. Well be good. Storms on track down south of pittsburgh and in toward ohio. Theres very little activity going on right now. This is what we had early this morni...

The heat wave that is continuing. Yes, it got to the mid90s with the steamy humidity. And the humidity is still with us. Storm team 4 radar getting one shower here just south of clinton and southern prince georges county, that is tracking off to the north and east. Not a thunderstorm, just a little shower there. Otherwise across Northern Virginia, a few sprinkles in loudoun, fairfax, prince william, fauquier and a few sprinkles with us maybe off and on for another couple of hours. Right now temp...

Downpour east of charlottesville. A Little Thunder and lightning with it, that is tracking toward fredericksburg, about 55 minutes of getting right into fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County. And elsewhere, just a few scattered sprinkles and short sleeve day today, steamy hot afternoon. And some afternoon storms are looking likely probably not quite as strong as the ones we had yesterday. Right now, takes steamy start across the Shenandoah Valley, in the low 70s there with quite a bit of cloudi...

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The congested parking along MacArthur Boulevard indicates the popularity of the Anglers Inn access to the C&O Canal and the Potomac River. Why is it so popular? Why is this particular access creating so much congestion? Let me approach it from the paddler’s point of view. Flatwater paddlers, including sea kayakers, have access to the watered C&O Canal which widens to the lake-like widewater one half mile upstream of the improved canal put-in. Whitewater paddlers, after carrying 300 yards from...