Maryland Weather: Thanksgiving AM rain then dry, windy & chilly
BALTIMORE -- The WJZ First Alert Weather Team has an Alert Day for morning rain & slow travel. Our weather turns windy, chilly, & drier this afternoon.
Our WJZ First Alert Weather Team continues an Alert Day this morning for slower than normal travel with pockets of steady rain, slick roadways, which may cause travel delays. Our Thanksgiving morning is starting out damp and dreary with pockets of rain pushing through the area.
Ponding of water, road spray, and low visibility are the main concerns with this morning's rain. As soon as the rain exits the area before noon, our WJZ First Alert Weather Team will discontinue the Alert Day around lunchtime. By the time the rain is over, we're expecting anywhere from 0.25" to 0.75" of rain.
For this afternoon, gusty winds will dry the roads and sidewalks. Wind gusts of 25 to 35 mph will be common throughout the afternoon and early evening. Temperatures will stay close to 50° through early evening, but with the gusty winds increasing later today, feels like temperatures will drop into the 30s & 40s.
Expect clear, cold, and breezy weather tonight. Low temperatures will dip into the lower 30s with wind-chills in the 20s.
Black Friday will be blustery and chilly. Morning sunshine will give way to building clouds. A brief sprinkle is possible, but most of the area will remain dry. Winds will gust 30 to 35 mph with highs only topping out in the upper 40s. A powerful cold front will cross the area Friday night delivering us our first arctic blast of the season.
The upcoming weekend will be bright and blustery with biting cold temperatures. Despite sunshine both days, gusty winds will create numbing wind-chills in the teens and 20s most of the weekend. Saturday and Sunday will have high temperatures in the upper 30s, which is typical for the middle of winter.
If you're headed to the Ravens tailgating and/or game Sunday afternoon at M & T Bank Stadium, you'll need to be wearing many layers of clothes to keep warm. In addition to wearing several layers, you'll want to be wearing your winter coat, gloves, hat, earmuffs, and have some lip balm with you. Despite temperatures being in the upper 30s for kickoff at 4:25 PM, the wind-chill will stay in the 20s throughout the game.
An unusual winter-like cold pattern continues next week with highs in the 30s to near 40° with lows down into the upper teens and lower 20s. The good news is that we don't see any winter weather to create problems on the roads next week.
