Heat will make a return today and a strong cold front will combine later this afternoon and this evening. Our region has an Enhanced Risk Of Severe Storms!  This means that the full of 90ºF temperatures will help build storms that can have winds over 60 mph and large hail over 1 inch in diameter. The threat of tornadoes is low but possible rotation with some supercells.

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Watch: Means it MAY HAPPEN

Warning: Means it IS HAPPENING NOW– and being tracked town to town.

The best time for storms will be after 4 PM as we watch a line develop in souther Pennsylvania and drop south.  The Enhanced Risk area is where the line of storms will act on the heat. As it drops south later in the evening, some energy will be lost as the radar simulations below show. But we will have bands of rain and some storms up to midnight, and lingering rain Mothers Day.

I need to point out that plotting storm development is not perfect. I have two model simulations below. But as we saw Thursday. The timing can be off by an hour. Plus, there is a difference in these models I will point out, which will help track which is more accurate as we go through the day. May next update will by by 3 PM to fine tune the tracking.

Rain Potential

The heavy rain plot here does help show where the grated influence will be

 

Stats For May 12 in Baltimore

Average High:  73ºF

Record High: 94ºF in 1881

Average  Low: 51ºF

Record Low: 35ºF in 1963

Sunrise: 5:55 AM

Sunset 8:10 PM

*Daylight = 1:56 longer than yesterday 

*Bay Water Temperature = 66ºF at Thomas Pt. Light House

 

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Morning Set Up

A Stationary Front is draped across our area. This separates cooler air and an easterly flow with temps in the 50s from the heat in the 70s already that is building north. Expecting this front to shift north is the main player in our weather today. It will determine if you reach the 90s AND how the storms from the west will travel….

 

Mesoscale Analysis

Mesoscale Convective Complexes (MCCs) will be forming to our west… like this one near Chicago this morning. That will ride along the stationary front to the east/southeast this afternoon and evening. This is why the Enhanced Risk is across northern Maryland and southern PA as it interacts with prime heating after 4 PM.

 

Comparing Two Models

HRRR Model

Afternoon Highs

This model brings the front back north and puts Baltimore into the lower 90s

 

Radar Simulation —> slider

This keeps the front and the storms primarily north of Baltimore. Showers trend south in the evening after 9 PM

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NAM 3 Km Model

Afternoon Highs

This model actually shows the front not fully passing Baltimore, holding temps in the 80s. This also keeps an easterly wind off of the Bay in place, that can feed storms

 

Radar Simulation —> slider

This model shows a larger eruption of storms, even with cooler temps. This would hold down some of the energy to play with… But also allows the storms to pass south into the heat and involved central Maryland and Delmarva.

 

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Mothers Day

Sadly the front appears to stall over our region Sunday. Temps will be cooler and there will be periods of rain. I do not want to lock in specific times for rain, but the pattern shown here supports at least 50% chance and encourages plans to be made indoors.

 

 

Temperature Outlook

It looks like the heat will try to return this week for a few days as summer is fighting its way back in

 

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