We're finally starting to pick up a few sprinkles from what was once the meandering gusher called Tropical Storm Fay. We have a few hundredths of an inch on our gauge here at Calvert & Centre streets. The storm is now just a mass of tropical air (above), loaded with plenty of balmy moisture, but little of its former power.

But despite her poor performance in most of Maryland, Fay's ghost has been soaking folks to our south and west. Get a load of these rain totals - including more than 6 inches in Danville, Va. Here are some more.

Forecasters are saying our best shot at some badly needed rain will be today. They're giving us a 90-percent shot at "occasional rain."

But much of it will be light, they say. We should expect less than a tenth of an inch. Another tenth to a quarter inch is possible tonight at BWI, and more through Saturday. But the chances that any one location will get any begin to diminish after today.

By Sunday, the storm's remnants will have moved off, replaced by sunnier skies and drier air from the north and west. Sunday and Monday look sunny and warm, in the mid-80s. A great close to the holiday weekend. The good weather should persist into next week, but then we'll have to start watching for the effects of one or possibly two tropical systems - Gustav and what could become tropical storm Hanna. (See previous post.)