At long last, Mother Nature is ready to let up a bit and offer Arlington its first pleasant weekend of the fall.
After a dreary week of rain, the forecast is looking quite promising indeed over the next few days — and that should be quite good news for bars and restaurants hurting from the past few weeks of wet weather.
The D.C. region seems set to miss the worst of Hurricane Florence’s rain and wind this weekend, so don’t go clearing out the grocery store shelves just yet.
In fact, the forecast is calling for only isolated showers between tonight and Sunday. While Arlington might see some stronger storms early next week, the storm’s southerly track should keep us relatively dry this weekend.
Tropical storms Florence and Gordon are set to hammer other parts of the country quite a bit harder than Arlington, but the D.C. region is still in for a wet weekend.
The forecast is calling for scattered storm chances tonight and Saturday, with wettest conditions set for Sunday, so get your outdoor activities out of the way before then.
If you’re one of the estimated 850,000 people around the D.C. area hitting the road for Labor Day this weekend, be prepared for delays — and the unexpected.
“If past is prologue, holiday travelers departing the Washington metro area this Labor Day weekend will find slowing traffic beginning at 2 p.m. Friday, August 31, 2018, and the worst time to travel between 5-6 p.m. The best bet for drivers is to wait until after 7 p.m. on Friday or before noon on Saturday to help ensure valuable vacationing time isn’t spent in standstill traffic during summer’s swansong,” said John Townsend, Manager of Public and Government Affairs for AAA Mid-Atlantic, in a press release this morning.
The weather is set to be downright perfect this weekend, so get yourself outside ASAP.
The forecast calls for these balmy, delightfully un-humid conditions to last through Sunday, so enjoy it while you can. Perhaps it’ll be fine weather for a bike ride, or any of the other events going on around the county this weekend.
The weekend is here, and so too, perhaps, is an end to this week’s muggy conditions.
The forecast is calling for a few scattered showers tonight and into the weekend, but those should help cool down the oppressively steamy weather we’ve seen the last few days.
If you’re looking forward to an end to this week’s steamy weather, there’s good news and bad news.
It seems set to cool down a bit Saturday, but only because rain seems likely to return. Some weather watchers are even calling for downpours and flooding.
Hold on, for just one more day — today is our last day with rain in the forecast for the near future, setting up a sunny weekend.
Weather watchers project a wet Friday night before things, at long last, clear up for Saturday and Sunday. Check out our event calendar should you need some suggestions on how to enjoy this break from the rain.
Keep the umbrellas handy for one last round of storms tonight, before things clear up a bit this weekend.
Sure, there’s another threat of major thunderstorms and floods, mirroring what we’ve had all week, but things should calm down a bit in the coming days.
The weather has been just about perfect the last few days, but it doesn’t seem meant to last this weekend.
Rain is set to move in Saturday, then linger throughout the D.C. region for the next week, so go find that umbrella.
Hey now, All-Star Week starts today, so keep your eyes peeled for MLB’s glitterati around Arlington and D.C. this weekend.
The weather should be pretty hospitable to guests arriving for baseball’s midsummer break, though things are set to get hot and steamy soon enough.
After a Fourth of July-sized interruption to the weekly routine, the weekend, and end to this heat wave, is nearly here.
The D.C. area has seen seven straight days with highs above 90 degrees, but that finally seems set to wrap up as we move into the weekend.
