Cold front sweeps through our area this afternoon & evening. Mountain showers gradually come to an end later this evening. High pressure on the backside of the front will allow for more calm weather overnight. Slightly cooler & drier air tonight with patchy fog into Friday. Sunshine Friday with highs in the low/mid 80s. Irene will pass east of our area this weekend. We'll see breezy conditions, some cloud cover & a chance for a raindrop late Saturday or Sunday this weekend. Further east, Irene will cause water problems from the Carolinas to Maine over the weekend.

For the rest of today...Some precip still occurring in our mountain counties & in the Eastern Panhandle as the front gets hung up there. Restrengthening is possible with any afternoon storms firing in the east. Flash flood watches have been posted for DC/MD/VA. No watches/warnings are currently active for West Virginia. Behind the front, a northwest air flow will help slightly cooler & drier air to mix into our area overnight. So patchy dense fog development is likely tonight into Friday morning. Lows will be in the low 60s.

High pressure will build in over the southern Great Lakes Friday morning, keeping dry weather & mostly sunny skies in the forecast Friday & Saturday. Temperatures will be on the average for this time of year. Highs will be in the mid 80s.

Irene will pass east of our area over the weekend, tossing some moisture onto our back door in the process. Effects will be significantly limited this far inland. But things will be breezy and folks in the east will likely see periodic rain as bands of moisture expand from Irene's periphery. Folks in and around flood-prone, urban & mountainous areas will need to pay close attention to weekend rainfall amounts & watch for flood problems!

Our forecast through at least the first part of next week looks generally tranquil with average temps.