Welcome!

It's time for a new adventure. We hope you'll join us.

After years of building this community, we’re excited to welcome you to our new independent home for DC-area weather, across our website, newsletter, and app. This is something we’ve been thinking about and working toward for a long time, and we’re grateful you’re here at the very start.

Whether you’ve followed us for years or are just discovering us today, thank you for being part of this.

We're committed to providing free access to 24/7 DC‑area weather coverage on our website and mobile app. Your support makes this possible.

We welcome contributions to help sustain our work. Contributors can subscribe to our weekly insider newsletter and gain deeper access to our coverage, tools, and team. Learn more on our Support Us page.

Our goal is simple: provide the most accurate, useful, and engaging weather coverage for the DC area. We hope you’ll explore, return often, and engage with us — whether by commenting or sharing photos and videos.

Here’s a quick guide to what you’ll find:

The daily forecast: Our detailed forecast, published on our website and app each morning around 5 a.m., delivered via email for free, and updated frequently throughout the day.
Live updates: The heartbeat of the site. Frequently updated with forecast updates, alerts, deeper dives, photos, videos, and reports from around the region.
News and features: Longer reads on local and sometimes national weather and climate, including monthly and seasonal outlooks, and pre- and post-storm analysis.
DC weather, explained: Clear, accessible explainers on how weather works — locally and beyond.
Weather Now: Real-time conditions across the region, including radar, temperatures, satellite, webcams, air quality, pollen, and UV.
Forecast Lab: Maps and graphics looking ahead, including radar, temperature and precipitation forecasts, river and tide predictions, and longer-range outlooks.
Climate Room: A deep dive into DC-area climate, from today’s stats to records dating back to the 1800s.
Weather history: Notable weather events for every day of the year, including in-depth features on the most memorable storms.
Mobile app: Follow us on the go with easy access to our forecast and updates, news and features, and explainers, plus push alerts for hazardous weather, hourly and 10-day forecast data, radar, and more. Available for iOS and Android.
Support us and unlock more: Go deeper with Capital Weather. Support our work while unlocking exclusive content, weekly chats with our team, an ad-free website experience, and full access to our tools and data hubs.
Ways to connect:
- Social: Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), Bluesky, and Flickr