May 7, 2023
Sunday Morning Update
We did it! Yesterday’s beautiful weather was the first time in 2 weeks that Baltimore reached the 70s. If your lawn is out of control and you let the sun dry it out, today you will have time to get it clipped… However, there will be showers and thunderstorms arriving late afternoon and evening.
My schedule has me up early in the morning and I often plan my timing to post by the morning light. Today was noticeably bright earlier with sunrise at 6 AM. The sunset will be at 8:07 PM, meaning with over 14 hours of daylight, we are gaining more than 2 extra minutes of daylight each day, so it is inevitable that we continue to warm up. The climate records show we typically climb one extra degree on the afternoon highs every 4 to 5 days.
This looks like an MCC in the Ohio Valley. This is a mesoscale convective complex, often taking on its own spin and surviving overnight as it traverses around the north side of High Pressure.
This is the system we plan to arrive late afternoon and evening today. It has already spread high thin clouds across the sky and will likely lead to a mostly cloudy day.
The timing of the showers could end up earlier than the models are showing, but I would still expect later afternoon in metro areas.
This is a rough gauge of the timing. The line and cluster of rain with embedded thunderstorms will be moving out of the mountains into the western suburbs by dinner. This product has a tendency to be a little slow.
Thoughts: Consider showers and storms east of the mountains between 5 PM and 8 PM.
Normal Low in Baltimore: 51ºF
Record 33ºF in 1970
Normal High in Baltimore: 73ºF
Record 96ºF 1930
The shower risk will be spotty and mostly in the evenings. These will not be washout days.
Today’s 80s will be in metro areas. Most in the 70s, with more clouds and showers by evening. The chance of showers for the next few days will be low and later in the day. The last half of the week is when we return to sun and seasonally warm temperatures.
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