October 31, 2024
Thursday Morning Report
Happy Halloween! Today will be the warmest day of this stretch, and it may be welcome but could be warm and sweaty in some costumes. There was a record heat wave in Baltimore during the last three days of October in 1946. Temps hit the lower 80s and remain on the books. Today, we will get into the 80s, but we might expect to stay below the record mark.
A strong cold front will be responsible for severe storms in the South and snow in the Northern Plains. This will cross our region tomorrow and lead us into a cooler weekend.
The drought report will be updated today and is expanding. We have not had measurable rain in 4 weeks!
Check out this warm start! Temps are in the mid-50s to 60s across central Maryland…. 40s and 50s inland and into southern PA.
One highlight: The mountains of Western Maryland are also in the 60s near McHenry.
High-Pressure pumps in the heat enhanced by a strong cold front! We remain with well above average temps and nearly no rain!
The cold front will be very active, with severe storms across the South and snow developing to the north!
It will fade as it arrives East, but we will get cooler air this weekend.
There may be an outbreak of severe storms with large hail and tornadoes… Highlighted from western Missouri to central Oklahoma.
Warming up into the mid and upper 70s.
Remaining warm/comfortable for the kids.
Sunrise at 7:34 AM
Sunset at 6:06 PM
Normal Low in Baltimore: 41ºF
Record 25ºF in 1966
Normal High in Baltimore: 63ºF
Record 85ºF 1946
No Measurable Rain Since October 2nd; Only A TRACE on October 4th.
It’s been 4 weeks without rain.
Rainfall DOWN -5.87” since Sep 1.
The cold front will arrive as the rain is fading away. The best we can hope for is some sprinkles or a brief shower in the morning.
A new air mass with cooler temperatures into the weekend.
As the core of that air mass shifts off the coast, we will get the return flow pumping in with another big warm-up.
It will be ANOTHER WEEK of very warm temperatures.
This seems like a repeating pattern with a cooler weekend, VERY WARM Midweek, and not much rain in sight.
Here are the average dates across Maryland, and they match the advisories we saw last week.
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