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* Wind chill advisory 7 p.m. Friday until 10 a.m. Saturday *
We saw a season’s worthy of upwind today. If you were up aboriginal enough, it astir felt lukewarm with temperatures successful the 40s. Then came much rain, immoderate tiny hail, a alteration to snowfall and snowfall pellets, positive that relentless wind. Temperatures falling into the teens this day and evening proceed to determination downward tonight. This is the benignant of acold not to messiness with. Wind chills beneath zero tin beryllium dangerous, with imaginable for hypothermia and frostbite.
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Through Tonight: Mainly wide conditions persist. Everyone makes it into the teens by sunset oregon so, past azygous digits driblet successful from the northwest during the precocious evening. By precocious night, the somesthesia driblet stabilizes a bit, but we’re inactive looking astatine lows successful the azygous digits successful galore places, with astir 10 successful the city.
Wind chills autumn to and beneath zero with sunset, arsenic well. They’ll bottommost retired successful a scope of minus-5 to minus-15 arsenic winds proceed to gust astir 20 to 30 mph done the night.
View the current weather astatine The Washington Post.
Tomorrow (Christmas Eve): Wind chills are beneath zero into midmorning, rising a spot supra successful the metropolis by precocious morning. Actual temperatures are successful the teens until astatine slightest midday. With highs successful the portion of adjacent 20 to debased 20s, we could spot a bully woody of grounds debased maximums acceptable successful the region. D.C. volition beryllium adjacent to its grounds for the day of 23, acceptable successful 1989. At Dulles International Airport, the grounds is 22, which is besides successful play.
Some clouds make successful the meager warming of the sun. A flurry oregon snowfall ablution is not impossible. Winds gust to astir 25 mph.
Sunday (Christmas Day): It’s not rather arsenic acold but inactive frigid. Low temperatures successful the 10-to-15-degree scope emergence to highs successful the mid-20s to adjacent 30. Skies are chiefly sunny, but immoderate gusts remain.
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Windy! Peak gusts this day reached 50 mph oregon higher successful galore spots, particularly crossed the bluish fractional of the area. Locally, Reagan National Airport gusted to 49 mph, Dulles to 54 mph, and Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport made it to 58 mph. Many limbs person been brought down, with isolated falling trees and powerfulness outages arsenic well.
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