With the high clouds over Illinois and near the Mississippi River fairly far to the west areas that do not have too many low clouds from Ophelia yet, especially from the metro region westwards, may experience a, at least, briefly gorgeous sunset before any of the aforementioned Midwest clouds try to cut the show short (they're pretty far west so we'll see how long a gorgeous sunset lasts). The further WNW you are the better. (Medium confidence)
That would be yours truly but I'll one you up. Try Herndon watching those downbursty rain/hail curtains drop immediately to my west for two days.
I salute @EastCoast NPZ for what he goes through.
Lee now a Category 4. Forecasted to become a 145kt Cat 5 tomorrow. Not sure I've ever seen a forecast that strong for a storm not already a 5. Maybe once before?
Today's climate report just in shows that all three local airports have hit 99F today. A new 2023 high for DCA.
DCA: 99F
IAD: 99F
BWI: 99F
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RIC: 98F
We'll see if any funny heat business occurs over the next half hour or so.
Looks like IAD got down to 74F early this morning. The record warm min for today there is 73F and with no storms through the day that is likely to hold.
Based on the newly released Daily climate report (assuming nothing unusual happens) it looks like todays airport highs were:
BWI: 99F
DCA: 98F
IAD: 99F
RIC: 98F