{"id":2954,"date":"2017-05-05T16:12:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T20:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/?p=2954"},"modified":"2017-05-05T16:12:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T20:12:03","slug":"pm-update-chance-friday-evening-rain-showers-periodic-showers-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/05\/pm-update-chance-friday-evening-rain-showers-periodic-showers-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Update: Chance of Friday Evening Rain Showers. Periodic Showers into the Weekend."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The morning rain brought a deluge to the DMV area. In fact, between 4-10am, Reagan National Airport measured <a href=\"http:\/\/w1.weather.gov\/data\/obhistory\/KDCA.html\">1.48 inches<\/a> of rain. These showers are not expected to let up. There is a slight chance of showers throughout the afternoon and evening, and a likely chance of off-and-on showers Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2955\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2955\" class=\"wp-image-2955 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/umdwx_WV.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/umdwx_WV.jpg 640w, https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/umdwx_WV-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goes.noaa.gov\/\">GOES-E<\/a> (upper-tropospheric) water vapor image for 11:45 am on Friday, showing the extratropical cyclone passing over our region<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Through tonight:<\/strong>\u00a0A gloomy\u00a0evening ahead. Until midnight there is a 40% chance of showers, and a smaller chance after midnight. Otherwise, skies remain mostly cloudy. Through the evening expect sustained winds out of the south at 13-16 mph, with gusts up to 25 mph. Temperature will drop to mid-60s by 9pm and reach a minimum temperature of upper-50s around 3am.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tomorrow (Saturday):<\/strong>\u00a0Grab the raincoat and rainboots. There is the highest chance of rain in late morning through mid-afternoon. Temperatures will hover in the lower-60s for most of the day in mostly cloudy conditions. Still fairly breezy as well; expect 14-17 mph winds and 20-15 mph gusts until evening. By 5pm the chance of rain drops to 30% and becomes unlikely after 8pm. Winds settle\u00a0to 11-14 mph and temperatures reach lower-50s overnight.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2956\" style=\"width: 1410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/trowal.weather.umd.edu\/models\/TerpWRF\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2956\" class=\"wp-image-2956 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/umdwx_3hrprecip.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/umdwx_3hrprecip.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/umdwx_3hrprecip-500x393.jpg 500w, https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/umdwx_3hrprecip-800x629.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2956\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TerpWRF 3-hr precip for 11am on Saturday, showing light rain moving in parts of MD (via <a href=\"http:\/\/trowal.weather.umd.edu\">Trowal<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Sunday:<\/strong> Perhaps a break from the dreariness? Partly sunny and a high temperature in lower-60s. Still quite windy and a slight chance of showers, but a slight upgrade from earlier weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The morning rain brought a deluge to the DMV area. In fact, between 4-10am, Reagan National Airport measured 1.48 inches of rain. These showers are not expected to let up. There is a slight chance of showers throughout the afternoon&hellip; <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/05\/pm-update-chance-friday-evening-rain-showers-periodic-showers-weekend\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather-discussion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/umdwx_capitol.jpe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2960,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions\/2960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}