March 30, 2023
Thursday Morning
Today is the start of Major League Baseball season and the weather will be catching back up to spring shortly. Today, however will be windy! The Orioles will be in Boston where strong winds and temperatures near 40ºF with wind chills in the 30s will not feel pleasant. The Nationals will have a home start and a nicer set up as local winds will be easing later in the day.
Wind Restrictions On Local Bridges
This morning, we have strong winds gusting to 30 mph. As a result, wind restrictions are in place for local bridges.
The strongest winds will be this morning, then easing to near calm this afternoon.
A strong cold front was responsible for a snow squall line that crossed the Great Lakes from New York to Maine overnight. This is the leading edge of a cooler air mass, and the reason we have strong winds this morning.
The winds will remain an issue in Boston for the Orioles season opener. Locally, the winds will ease to near calm for the Nationals.
A chilly start, and reminder there will be gusty winds to start today.
It will be a cooler day, but we will warm this weekend.
Normal Low in Baltimore: 38ºF
Record 21ºF in 1887
SNOW:2.6” in 2003
Normal High in Baltimore: 60ºF
Record 89ºF in 1998
Rain will be developing in the afternoon. Best guess for metro areas is to get the rain arriving between 3 PM and 5 PM, then lasting all evening. While this may appear to break up at night, there will be more rain returning later to Saturday morning.
The leading edge of the rain may reach metro areas between 3 PM and 5 PM.
We will warm up significantly, until the rain arrives.
This is worth watching: A strong cold front may produce a line of thunderstorms early in the morning. This will be followed by very strong winds and a warm up. We may need to watch for Wind Alerts for this event.
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I have made a few public statements over the years, but if you are new here you may have missed it:
I have dyslexia, and found out during my second year at Cornell University. It didn’t stop me from getting my meteorology degree, and being first to get the AMS CBM in the Baltimore/Washington region. One of my professors told me that I had made it that far without knowing, and to not let it be a crutch going forward. That was Mark Wysocki and he was absolutely correct!
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