Rain, thunderstorms forecast for DC military parade

Rain and thunderstorms are forecast for Saturday successful the nation’s capital, wherever a time of festivities and a subject parade are scheduled to observe the U.S. Army’s 250th day — which happens to coincide with President Trump’s 79th birthday.

The daylong festivities successful Washington, D.C., volition instrumentality spot mostly connected the National Mall, wherever a fittingness lawsuit volition beryllium held astatine 9:30 a.m. and a festival volition footwear disconnected astatine 11 a.m.

The festival volition see meet-and-greet opportunities with soldiers, Army astronauts, NFL representatives and Medal of Honor recipients. The festival volition besides diagnostic subject demonstrators, instrumentality displays, a cake-cutting ceremonial and different activities.

The main lawsuit connected Saturday — the Army Birthday Parade — volition statesman astatine 6:30 p.m. and past until 9:30 p.m.

The National Weather Service (NWS) is saying determination is simply a 60 percent accidental of precipitation passim the time but that dense rainfall is astir apt for the archetypal 90 minutes oregon truthful of the parade,

NWS is forecasting “showers apt and perchance a thunderstorm,” betwixt 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. Then the forecast transitions to a “chance of showers and thunderstorms,” betwixt 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Earlier successful the time — until 2 p.m. — NWS says there’s a “chance of showers.” And betwixt 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., NWS forecasts “a accidental of showers and thunderstorms.”

NWS says passim the day, the entity volition beryllium “mostly cloudy” and the precocious volition adjacent 84 degrees. At night, the forecast is cloudy and the debased is astir 67 degrees.