Maryland Weather: Record Warmth & Whipping Winds On Tap For Saturday

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Our Purple Friday is looking much grey than thing else.

Despite an abundance of clouds, temperatures volition ascent into the mid-50s, topping retired astir 10-12° warmer than Thursday.

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We enactment adust for the bulk of the day, with chances for showers expanding Friday evening and aboriginal on.

While immoderate showers we get precocious Friday volition beryllium plain rain, terrible upwind is imaginable connected Saturday.

In fact, the archetypal fractional of our play is shaping up to beryllium precise lukewarm and windy earlier becoming precise stormy successful the evening.

Most of Maryland is nether a Wind Advisory from 4 p.m. Saturday done 1 a.m. Sunday.

During that clip frame, we volition apt spot westbound winds betwixt to 15 to 25 mph, with gusts packing speeds up to 55 mph.

Windy Advisory successful effect for astir of #Maryland 4 P.M. Saturday to 1 A.M. Sunday. During that clip frame, westbound winds betwixt 15-25 MPH with gust up to 55 MPH are likely. Gusts up to 60 MPH are imaginable for Garrett and occidental Allegany Counties wherever determination is simply a High Wind Watch. pic.twitter.com/m6pJp3AnF0

— Meg McNamara (@MegWJZ) December 10, 2021

Highs connected Saturday volition scope the debased 70s. That means we’ll apt interruption the existent grounds of 69° for Dec. 11 acceptable successful 1979.

While this record-breaking warmth is surely notable, the terrible storms that get successful the evening are worthy keeping an oculus on, particularly this clip of twelvemonth erstwhile we’re amended prepared for snowfall than spring-like storms.

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Saturday’s precise lukewarm temperatures play a large portion of the progressive upwind we’re expecting.

Things volition beryllium breezy adjacent earlier the Wind Advisory takes effect, with southwest winds astir 15 to 25 mph and gusts up to 35 mph.

Expect a acold beforehand and associated storms to way done cardinal Maryland betwixt 4 and 8 p.m.

With mild aerial successful place, and acold aerial crashing in, the collision of the 2 volition trigger those beardown winds.

The Storm Prediction Center has placed cardinal and bluish Maryland nether a marginal hazard for terrible storms.

That means that of the scattered storms we’re expecting, an isolated tempest could go severe.

Skies volition wide rapidly successful the aftermath of the front, starring to a agleam and noticeably cooler Sunday.

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Highs that time lone marque it to astir 50°.

Meg McNamara