Washington, DC weather
Right now 70°, clear · today 72° / 54°, sunny · seven days from the National Weather Service
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Right now · 70° · clear · wind S 14 mph · 6° warmer than this time yesterday · at DC, 2:05 PM
Today, in the Weather Service’s words
Sunny, with a high near 72. South wind 5 to 9 mph.
Seven days
Winter in Washington
Washington averages 10 inches of snow a year, according to NOAA’s 1991-2020 climate normals - a occasional snow place. Snow is a few-times-a-year event. Limited equipment means modest amounts cause real disruption.
That is why local snowfall thresholds differ so much from one town to the next: a district that plans for 10 inches a year is equipped differently from one that never sees any. Here, roughly 2 inches in a single storm is where a normal school day comes under threat.
Upper air over Washington
The nearest radiosonde launch is Sterling, about 24 miles away. A weather balloon goes up twice a day and measures temperature, humidity and wind all the way through the atmosphere - which is what forecasters actually read to judge whether storms will fire, and how a surface forecast was arrived at.
Forecasters covering the Northeast
- Jeffrey GluckIndependent meteorologist covering Northeast winter storms and severe weather. Data-driven forecasts backed by multi-model analysis. Focused on actionable timing and accumulation calls for the I-95 corridor.
- SKYler-WARNNew outlook producer (daily or weekly) Subscribe to YT @RealSkyler_edits (I'm an editor)
- ForecasterHQF
Sources: National Weather Service forecast and hourly grid for Washington (api.weather.gov), updated Wed, 11:52 AM UTC. Sunrise and sunset from NOAA’s solar position calculations. Snowfall normals from NOAA’s 1991-2020 US Climate Normals. County lines from the US Census Bureau.