METEOROLOGIST TOM TASSELMYER BIG WARM-UP TODAY. TEMPERATURES PUSHING INTO THE UPPER 70S. COUPLE SPOTS HITTING THE 80 DEGREE MARK. EVEN WITH SOME CLOUD COVER AROUND, WE MANAGED TO SEE THOSE TEMPERATURES SOAR TO ABOVE NORMAL LEVELS AT 79 RIGHT NOW IN DOWNTOWN BALTIMORE AT THE MARYLAND SCIENCE CENTER, YOU GET A LITTLE COOLING EFFECT, BUT NOT MUCH NEAR THE CHILLY WATERS OF THE BAY. SPARROWS POINTS AT 71, SO THAT’S EIGHT DEGREES COOLER THAN THE INNER HARBOR. AND AS YOU CONTINUE TO MOVE WEST TOWARD FREDERICK, TEMPERATURES REALLY WARM UP 81 DEGREES THERE AT FREDERICK AT THAT AIRPORT LOCATION. THEY TEND TO RUN A LITTLE WARM AT THAT LOCATION, BUT IT’S IT’S A WARM DAY FOR SURE. PARKTON UP IN NORTHERN BALTIMORE COUNTIES, EVEN 77, IN THE MOUNTAINS HAVE WARMED UP TO 60S AND 70S OUT WEST. NEXT 24 HOURS WE MAY SEE SOME WET WEATHER MOVING IN. THE MAIN BATCH OF RAIN IS GOING TO COME LATER ON THURSDAY, BUT LATE TONIGHT. HEADING INTO TOMORROW MORNING, A COUPLE SCATTERED SHOWERS APPROACHING FROM THE SOUTH. A MILD NIGHT, 50S AND 60S FOR OVERNIGHT LOWS, SO IT’S NOT GOING TO COOL OFF MUCH. THE CLOUD COVER MOVING IN EVEN AS WE SPEAK WILL TRAP SOME OF THE HEAT OF THE DAY AND KEEP OUR TEMPERATURES UP. BUT YOU CAN SEE THE RAIN IS DOWN THERE IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND IT’S ASSOCIATED WITH THAT STORM THAT WAS OVER IN ARIZONA YESTERDAY. NOW TRACKING THROUGH TEXAS, THIS SYSTEM IS GOING TO TRACK NORTHEAST. IT WILL GO WEST OF THE MOUNTAINS, WHICH MEANS WE’RE ON THE WARMER, MORE UNSTABLE SIDE OF THE SYSTEM. AND WE’LL KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORM OR TORNADO WATCHES OUT ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE STORM THIS EVENING. AND THAT MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT STAYS ALONG THE GULF COAST AS WE HEAD INTO WEDNESDAY. BUT THURSDAY IT WILL SHIFT A LITTLE FARTHER TO THE NORTH AND EAST. SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS. KIND OF CATEGORY THREE, IF YOU WILL, OVER INTO THE OHIO VALLEY AND POINTS SOUTH OF US. BUT WE ARE IN THAT DARKER GREEN SHADED AREA, A MARGINAL RISK OF AN ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORM POPPING UP, ESPECIALLY SOUTH AND WEST OF BALTIMORE ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND THURSDAY EVENING. EVEN THERE MAY BE SOME STORMS AROUND FOR THIS NIGHT. IT’S JUST CLOUDY THROUGH THE EVENING AND THEN A CHANCE FOR SOME WET WEATHER LATE TONIGHT, ESPECIALLY AFTER MIDNIGHT AND TEMPERATURES STAYING WELL ABOVE NORMAL. OUR NORMAL LOW IS 41 AGAIN, PROBABLY GOING TO STAY IN THE UPPER 50S AND LOW 60S IN MOST SPOTS. THEN BACK INTO THE MID 70S. TOMORROW WE’LL CALL IT MOSTLY CLOUDY, BUT THERE IS ABOUT A 20% CHANCE OF A FEW ISOLATED SHOWERS AROUND TOMORROW, SO IT WON’T BE COMPLETELY ZERO CHANCE OF RAIN, BUT MOST AREAS WILL STAY DRY TOMORROW AND MILD AGAIN WITH TEMPERATURES RIGHT BACK INTO THE MID 70S AROUND BALTIMORE. LOW 70S ALONG THE SHORE OF THE BAY. 60S AND 70S IN THE MOUNTAINS. THURSDAY IS THE DAY WE PICK UP THE HEAVIEST RAIN AND SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE STRONG WITH SOME GUSTY WINDS, ESPECIALLY IN THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING SOUTH OF BALTIMORE. SO WE’LL KEEP AN EYE ON THAT FOR THURSDAY’S WEATHER. AND THEN FRIDAY, SOME LINGERING SHOWERS, MAYBE EVEN A POP UP THUNDERSTORM ON FRIDAY AS WELL. SO THE REST OF THE WORKWEEK GETS A LITTLE WETTER AND A LITTLE MORE UNSTABLE. MID 70S TOMORROW IMPACT WEATHER ON THURSDAY FOR THOSE AFTERNOON STORMS AND SOME STRONG GUSTY WINDS, A FEW SCATTERED SHOWERS AND COOLER ON FRIDAY WEEKEND. DOESN’T LOOK TOO BAD. IT WILL COOL OFF