 It will feel hotter. Some scattered showers and thunderstorms through the afternoon and evening. One or two of those could be on the stronger side. We're hopeful that that will start to taper off just in time for fireworks at 9.09. But we'll keep that pattern going with afternoon storms, heat and humidity through Friday and Saturday. I'm 7 News meteorologist Brian Van Der Graaf in the Forrester Weather Center. What a sunrise we're enjoying outside our windows. We've got blue and pink and yellow. Wow. 70 degrees now at the Wharf in D.C., 69 in Oxon Hill, 67 in Sterling.