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Tornadoes, Damaging Winds Possible As Severe Storms Take Aim At DC, Maryland, Virginia: NWS
Enjoy the quiet while it lasts.
A muggy Thursday could take a nasty turn across DC, Maryland and Virginia as the afternoon wears on, with severe storms threatening to bring damaging winds, hail, flooding and even a few tornadoes into the evening, forecasters say.
The timing isn't ideal.
Storms are expected to begin firing during the afternoon before becoming more widespread through roughly 4 to 6 p.m., putting parts of the Baltimore-Washington corridor in the crosshairs around the evening commute, according to the National Weather Service.
Much of the region east of the Blue Ridge is unde…
BWI Saw 2 Massive Khat Busts, Then Dulles Officers Opened These Eight Suitcases
Apparently, BWI wasn't the only airport getting buried in khat.
After federal officers seized more than 1,250 pounds of the illegal stimulant at the Maryland airport in back-to-back busts, another massive load surfaced one day later and about 60 miles away.
This time, someone wound up behind bars.
New York native Mohamed Diawara, 25, arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport on a flight from Paris on Friday, Aug. 14, when US Customs and Border Protection officers sent him for a secondary inspection, federal officials announced on Thursday, Aug. 20.
Then they opened his luggage.
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