August 22 Weather Still Cool And Back To Summer Heat This Weekend

Thursday, August 22 2024

Morning Report

Now in the third week of August, Baltimore is one weather station with an equal number of days in the 100s and 70s, at TWO. Today may be the third day below average for us, then back to our late summer weather pattern.

The weekend will turn hot, and then a disturbance from New England will bring us the next round of showers and thunderstorms.

Morning Temperatures 

Many areas in the 50s!

The 40s dominate from Frederick and WEST to the mountains. Some interior local valleys are in the 40s as well.

Morning Surface Weather

High Pressure remains in control and is building overhead. This softens the wind and will eventually turn the corner to warm us back to summer heat this weekend.

Afternoon Temperatures

This may be the last of our trifecta of days in the 70s… for most of us.  Metro Baltimore and BWI often tend to run a little warmer than the rest of the region, so they may briefly touch 80ºF.

-EXTENDED FORECAST BELOW-

CLIMATE DATA: Baltimore

TODAY August 22

Sunrise at 6:27 AM

Sunset at 7:51 PM

Normal Low in Baltimore:  65ºF

Record 52ºF in 1956

Normal High in Baltimore: 86ºF

Record 99ºF 1983

Summer Hot Day Totals At BWI

8 Days at or above 100ºF

39 Days total at or above 90ºF 

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FRIDAY AUGUST 23

Warming Up A Little

Morning Temperatures

Still cool but not as chilly.

Afternoon Temperatures

Getting back into the 80s.

Jet Stream

Animation: Thursday to Tuesday

The animation shows the 500mb heights. This is around 18,000 ft and represents the warm and cool air in the atmosphere that responds to how high it is measured.

The push of summer heat this weekend will be met with an Upper-Level Low dropping South from New England. This will result in showers and thunderstorms early next week.

Sunday Snapshot

A return to near summer temperatures this weekend.

Tuesday Snapshot

Unsettled across the Northeast US with this upper-level Low and source of cool and unstable air.

Surface Weather Forecast

Animation Monday Morning to Tuesday Evening

Monday Night

Tuesday

7 Day Forecast

Temperatures will gradually modify back to near normal and then summer heat by the end of the weekend. We are NOT done with the 90s yet.

Note: It is common to get preseason cool spells followed by high heat and perhaps another record high to balance things out.

The Upper-Level Low dropping South from New England will affect us with showers and storms into the middle of next week.

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RESTATING MY MESSAGE ABOUT DYSLEXIA

I am aware there are some spelling and grammar typos and occasional other glitches. I take responsibility for my mistakes and even the computer glitches I may miss. 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 the 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! I do miss my mistakes in my own proofreading. The autocorrect spell check on my computer sometimes does an injustice to make it worse. I also can make mistakes in forecasting. No one is perfect at predicting the future. All of the maps and information are accurate. The ‘wordy’ stuff can get sticky. 

There has been no editor who can check my work while writing and to have it ready to send out in a newsworthy timeline. Barbara Werner is a member of the web team that helps me maintain this site. She has taken it upon herself to edit typos when she is available. That could be AFTER you read this. I accept this and perhaps proves what you read is really from me… It’s part of my charm. #FITF