Weather experts say we’ll get three inches for sure, but possibly up to eight.
From 4 p.m. until late tonight.
Pepco received about 15,000 reports of power outages.
The National Weather Service says to watch out for damaging winds and isolated tornadoes.
A brief, but intense, rainstorm last night left swaths of D.C. inundated, with some neighborhoods experiencing flash flooding and briefly losing power.
WTOP’s Hank Silverberg reports that the flight schedule in and out of Reagan National Airport is returning to normalcy this morning after a pipe burst yesterday, flooding Terminal C. US Airways, which operates in the affected terminal, resumed flights at 10 a.m. — but long lines and waits are to be expected due to the backlog created by the shutdown last night. Silverberg notes that it took a hundred people working through the night to…
New Hampshire Ave NW between Shepherd and Taylor this morning Looks like we’ve got round two of this morning’s crazy storms heading our way. The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm watch until 9 p.m., along with a flash flood watch until 11 p.m. for the D.C. metro area. The current estimate is that this storm activity will get going in full force by about 5 p.m., so hold on to your…
It’s not time to bring out Davy DCist in a boat, but the National Weather Service has issued a coastal flood advisory for D.C., Prince George’s, southern Maryland, Fairfax, Alexandria, Arlington, and few other Virginia counties. The advisory, which is in effect until 11 a.m. Tuesday, says tides will be one to two feet higher due to the phase of the moon and onshore winds, which may cause minor coastal flooding around high tide, especially…
Mayor Fenty’s office sent out a press release on Wednesday to announce that the District will spend $2.5 million to improve the 17th Street levee. As you may recall, the Federal Emergency Management Agency proposed new flood maps in January to include an area in Southwest Washington from the Lincoln Memorial to Fort McNair. The change would have required many private property owners to purchase mandatory flood insurance, but FEMA recently agreed to delay implementation…
A heavy rain and high wind advisory has been issued from 1 p.m. today until 4 p.m. tomorrow afternoon for the metro region. No snow is expected in D.C., but we’ll have plenty of rain and the potential for more flooding. Temperatures are expected to remain in the mid 40s tonight and up to 53 degrees tomorrow during the day, and then dip to a low of 27 degrees late Saturday night into Sunday morning….
