CWG Live: An unsettled Easter brings showers and falling temperatures

Welcome to cwg.live, updated around-the-clock by Capital Weather Gang meteorologists. Happening now: A passing cold front may hinder Easter Sunday outdoor plans bringing mostly cloudy skies, a period of rain and falling temperatures. What's next? A cooler start to the week with highs in the upper 50s to low 60s and mostly sunny skies. 🔷 CWG's detailed D.C.-area forecast Today's daily digit -- 4/10: Easter Sunday dampened by rain. Waterproof shoes and a hooded sweater is needed today. | 🤚 Your call? The digit is a somewhat subjective rating of the day's weather, on a 0-to-10 scale. Forecast in detail Today (Sunday): The morning starts mild with temperatures near 70. It's already mostly cloudy at dawn and a few showers are possible as early as between 8 and 10 a.m. A steadier line of showers and maybe a thunderstorm will pass between late morning and midafternoon. Temperatures fall through the 60s during the afternoon as winds come in from the northwest, gusting up to 30 mph. Rainfall should average around half an inch Confidence: Medium-High Tonight: We start to feel the chill overnight with lows falling back into the upper 30s to low 40s. It's a clear, but windy night ahead with peak gusts from the northwest near 20 mph at times. Confidence: Medium-High Tomorrow (Monday): As many remain off for the Easter holiday, mostly sunny skies return. Expect seasonable high temperatures in the upper 50s to low 60s. A slight breeze makes it feel a bit brisk at times. Confidence: High Tomorrow night: It's another chilly, mostly clear night with lows from the mid-30s in our colder spots to the low 40s downtown. Confidence: High A look ahead A reinforcing shot of cool air arrives on Tuesday. Despite plenty of sunshine, daytime highs struggle to break out of the low 50s. Tuesday night could bring a freeze to many parts of the area. Lows range from the upper 20s and low 30s in most spots, but mid-30s around downtown D.C. and near the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay. Confidence: Medium It's still a bit on the cool side Wednesday with high temperatures in the low to mid-50s while it remains mostly sunny. Not quite as cold as night (compared to Tuesday night), with lows in the 30s. Confidence: Medium We warm up Thursday into the weekend with high temperatures returning to the upper 60s and then 70s. Confidence: Low Today in weather history: 1863 storm produces an incredible 12 inches of snow; tornado in 1923 On this day in 1863, a foot of snow was observed in Georgetown in the District. That's according to the records of the Rev. C.B. Mackee, a resident of Georgetown in the 1860s and a diarist. Mackee recorded temperatures and other weather records throughout the Civil War. While his measurement of 12 inches on April 5, 1863, predates official weather records, it represents the heaviest known April snowfall in D.C. A separate Civil War diary from John T. Goldsmith, who was in an infantry near Fredericksburg, Virginia, reported "very stormy" conditions and "snow and rain" that day. And on this day in 1923, a tornado touched down in Rock Creek Park in D.C. and then tore through Silver Spring, injuring four people, destroying five houses and damaging 12 more. Here are other notables from this day: * Average high: 64 * Average low: 45 * Record high: 87 (2023) * Record low: 24 (1881) * Record precipitation: 1.32 inches (1905) * Record snowfall: 0.5 inches (1898) Jason Samenow contributed to this report.