but there will be periods of rain. let s take a look at the temperatures. a mild start to the day. 65degrees right now here in washington. 63 at dulles airport. 64 in baltimore. fredericksburg is at 64. hags are up two, you are at 59 degrees this morning. forecast for today look like this. plenty of clouds around. a little bit cooler. highs in the upper 60s. about 67 degrees and periods of rain through the day. we ll have more details on the forecast coming up in just a little bit. thank you. lets aso how that rain is impacting the roadways. julie wright has the latest. so far, so good. no incidents to report right now out on the beltway as you travel between college park, colville road and your exit for 270. traffic volume still moving at speed in spite of the wet stuff. no problems reported on 395 leaving duke street headed out to the 14th street bridge. that s a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. new this morning, a deadly hit and run in beltsville. police got a ca
definitely mean it. the rain and flooding so bad, the school are closed in charles county this morning. charles county schools closed. code two for staff in charles county. prince george s county has been particularly hard hit. the county government is open today. however, the county administrative building in upper marlboro and the county courthouse in upper marlboro are both closed due to high water. we understand there is flooding on the first floor of the county administrative building in prince george s countiy. tony has the task of keeping an eye on the rain out there. speaking of that. we have a new flash flood warning in effect for pledge prince george s countiy, southeastern howard county, western anne arundel county, central baltimore county and some other counties as well. northeastern charles county until 8:45 because of flooding that is occurring now. that is some of what you are talking about there. that is a new flash flood warning in effect until 8:4
let s say good morning to tony perkins. it is like fall is saying good morning to effect starting back to school and work. it is. it is eerie in a way. here we go back to school being back to work and we ve got cooler temperatures and rainfall across the area. so slow down out there and give the kids the rain slickers and the umbrellas. some folk are seeing mainly light to moderate rainfall here and there across the region including it looks like maybe in southeast washington out towards prince george s county. la plata, you are getting it as well. off to the west, there is a flash flood warning in effect for fauquier county, culpeper county, orange county, places like that. up to the north, a couple of spots of heavier rain up near frederick, maryland. so this pick is changing moment by moment. we ll con to update it for you through the morning hours. let s go to the graphics actually flash flood watch is in effect for the entire area through tomorrow afternoon. that is
fox 5 morning news. i m steve chenevey. i m sarah simmons. let s say good morning to tony perkins. news of a warm day out there. very summery day. it is august and it will feel like it it wells in the upper 80s to around will feel like it with temperatures in the upper volunteer to around 90. i want to tell you about some rain shower that we ve seen in northeastern portions of maryland. we ll keep our eyes open because this could change through the morning and through the day. some of this has been heavy rain up around the aberdeen area and pushing into pennsylvania, philadelphia getting some rainfall and maybe even some lightning up there too. currently, it is 74 degrees at reagan national airport. the humidity is at 73 entrepreneur. the winds are the huge is at 73%. the winds are out of the south at nine miles per hour. we cannot rule out some thunderstorms and showers popping up here and there through the day. there are your temperatures. we ll have more on all of
look at that. a little bit of light precipitation moving through. tucker said he drove through it. it took three seconds to drive through. so some very light precipitation out there. i did not see it but we won t rule it out since it is showing up on the radar. it who be very brief if you see it. we do have some clouds this morning. later on, we ll get a lot of sunshine working in. temperatures at the area airports, 61 degrees at reagan national. our warmest morning so far this week. 59 at dulles. 58 at bwi marshall. forecast for today after some morning clouds and maybe a very, very brief sprinkle. hardly qualifies for a sprinkle. look for sunshine later. highs in the mid-70s. 75 in washington. 74 in warrenton. 76degrees for your high. let s take a look at traffic with julie wright. on the roads, you will fine lanes are open if you are traveling southbound along 270. no incidents reported south of 109 headed out to the scales. the volume uncreasing, of course, at this ho