No Rain For Inauguration Day

By Grace Muller, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer

January 14,2013; 8:01PM,EST

President Barack Obama will be sworn into office for his second term in office on Jan. 21. The Inauguration is held outside, on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.
AccuWeather.com meteorologists forecast a partly sunny Inauguration Day. The high temperature will be 41°F and the low temperature for the day will be 39°F. The temperature at the Capitol at noon will be around 37°F. Winds will be light, at 5 to 15 mph.

Inauguration stats from the National Weather Service Forecast Office for Baltimore, Md., and Washington, D.C.:

The normal high temperature for the day is 43°F. The normal low temperature for the day is the upper 28°F. The normal weather for 12 p.m. EST on the Inauguration is a temperature of 37°F, with partly cloudy skies, 10 mph wind and a wind chill of 31°F.
There is about a 1 in 3 chance of measurable precipitation (i.e., at least 0.01 of an inch) on that day and a 1 in 6 chance of precipitation during the ceremony.
There is only about a 1 in 10 chance of measurable snow (i.e., at least 0.1 of an inch) on that day and a 1 in 20 chance of snow during the ceremony. There is about a 1 in 6 chance that there will be at least 1 inch of snow already on the ground from a previous snowfall.
The following graph from the NWS shows the noon temperatures on Inauguration Day throughout history:

For a larger version of this map, visit the NWS's pa