After a brief reprieve from wet and stormy weather Wednesday, the evening brings a renewed risk of flooding to a D.C. region that’s already been soaked for several days this week.
791欧美激情 First Alert Chief Meteorologist Veronica Johnson told 91欧美激情 some scattered storms may resume in the afternoon and evening, with a chance of damaging winds and additional flooding.
“Already, your First Alert weather team, we’re going with a storm alert,” Johnson said. “And with the potential for some higher winds, we could see some downed trees. So again, gotta stay weather aware.”
The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning for the Potomac River at Little Falls, affecting the surrounding areas of Fairfax and Montgomery counties. The warning is in effect from late Wednesday night to late Friday evening. Another warning is in effect in other areas upstream along the Potomac.
The river was already rising Wednesday afternoon at White’s Ferry, and the former operator of the ferry said if the water level reaches 17 feet, the basement of White’s Ferry Store and Grill will flood.
Additionally, a flood watch is in effect for D.C.’s western suburbs until midnight.
Flood Watch has been expanded to cover more of northern VA. Slow moving thunderstorms may be capable of producing intense rainfall rates in a short period of time which could result in flash flooding.
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Temperatures will continue to climb for the rest of the week, with highs around 80 Thursday and Friday 鈥� and storms are expected to continue through the end of the week.
“It’s not until Sunday, when a front comes in, we finally clear out the humidity and get a reset of the atmosphere,” 791欧美激情 First Alert Meteorologist Jordan Evans told 91欧美激情.
The showers are providing some much-needed relief to persistent The rain first began Monday night.
“The smaller streams are starting to crest and drop off. We know Western Maryland got hit. But a lot of the smaller streams out there are starting to come back down, so that those smaller streams are probably seeing less of impact,” the weather service’s Jeremy Geiger said.
“Now, all that water is going into the Potomac, so now the Potomac is starting to rise, and it will be moving downstream toward D.C., probably late this evening, until tomorrow.”
Geiger said the immediate flooding impacts are probably more upstream along the Potomac River.
In Allegany County in northwestern Maryland, two elementary schools had to be evacuated due to flooding.
Jonathan Dayton, spokesman for Potomac Fire Company No. 2, told 91欧美激情 the water level was over one foot high against the main entrance door at Westernport Elementary School.
“Definitely a very chaotic situation,” Dayton said. “You can see in pictures two, three, four 鈥� cars in the parking lot that were just floating, due to high waters.”
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FULL FORECAST
WEDNESDAY EVENING:聽Scattered showers and storms
Temperatures:聽70s to 60s
Winds: Southeast 5-10 mph
WEDNESDAY NIGHT:聽Cloudy with isolated showers and areas of fog
Lows:听60蝉
Winds: Southeast 2-5 mph
THURSDAY:聽Morning clouds to sun, then isolated showers and storms
Highs:听78-83
Winds: East 5-10 mph
FRIDAY:聽Showers and storms likely
Highs:听83-88
Winds: Southwest 5-10 mph
SATURDAY:聽Showers and storms possible with breezy conditions
Highs:听83-88
Winds: Southwest 10-20 mph
SUNDAY:聽Mostly sunny
Highs:聽Near 80
Winds: Northwest 5-10 mph
CURRENT CONDITIONS
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