December 7, 2024
Saturday Morning Report
This morning starts off cloudy and cold for many of us. This should be a morning thing, with the sun trying to return by the afternoon. This will be the signal of turning the corner.
Sunday should be sunny and mild, with the temperature trending back to the 60s early in the week. The warm-up will come with rain, which we desperately need. Two systems are on the way: the first arrives on Monday, followed by the larger one on Wednesday.
The outlook pattern change keeps us warmer for another week, but winter is still poised to return for the holidays.
We have a cloudy and cold start, but clouds are expected to move out and bring us a sunny end to the day.
The large dome of High Pressure will shift east, helping keep the snow track north along the Canadian border and shifting the warmer winds our way by tomorrow.
The breeze will keep wind chills below freezing this morning, but it’ll relax later in the day.
Sunrise at 7:13 AM
Sunset at 4:44 PM
Normal Low in Baltimore: 31ºF
Record 6ºF in 2002
Normal High in Baltimore: 50ºF
Record 77ºF 1988
7.42 inches BELOW AVERAGE rainfall since September 1st
7.88 inches BELOW AVERAGE rainfall since January 1st
The storm track will bring us rain by Monday afternoon AND a stronger system on Wednesday.
After this passes, colder air will follow, but the snow end of the storm will be limited to the mountains and north.
This is our warm up.. temps into the 50s and maybe lower 60s for a few days.
Even if we get 1 to 2 inches of rain, this is a small dent in the larger drought, which is at a nearly 8-inch deficit.
The trend will be mild ahead of the storm and then following the second rain event.
This warm trend will last until the week before Christmas. It does not show the likely cooler air that will arrive close to the holidays.
The warming trend begins Sunday and feeds into the next storm.
There will be rain on Monday and heavier rain on Wednesday. There will be a brief drop in temperatures to end the week, but another warming trend is expected into the following week.
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