We’re live.
After years of building this community, we’re excited to welcome you to our new, independent home for D.C.-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.
If this is your first visit, we encourage you to sign up for our free daily forecast newsletter. You can also subscribe to our premium tier for deeper access to our coverage, tools and team. And if you’d like to support what we’re building, we welcome contributions to help sustain our work.
Our goal is simple: provide the most accurate, useful and engaging weather coverage for the D.C. 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 each morning around 5 a.m. and delivered via email to subscribers.
- Live updates: The heartbeat of the site. Updated throughout the day with forecast updates, alerts, deeper dives, photos, videos and reports from around the region.
- News and features: Longer reads on weather past, present and future, including monthly and seasonal outlooks, and pre- and post-storm analysis.
- D.C. 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 D.C.-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 alerts for hazardous weather, plus access to our forecast, radar and tools.
- Paid subscription: Go deeper with Capital Weather. Support our work while unlocking ad-free browsing, exclusive content, weekly chats with our team, and full access to our tools and data hubs.
- Ways to connect:
- Social: X (Twitter), Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram and Flickr
- WhatsApp: Join our channel for updates
- Radio: Hear our forecasts on WAMU 88.5 FM during morning and afternoon drive
We’re so excited to build this with you.
