Unless the folks at Sterling miss their bet, this fabulous March weather should hold through the weekend. The forecast calls for highs near 70 degrees, with plenty of sunshine as we enjoy the return flow out of the southwest, behind the departing high pressure system.
By Sunday night, though, we're looking at increasing chances for rain as we come under the influence of the storm that was dropping snow on the Colorado Rockies today.
The rain showers will start sometime after midnight, and continue through Monday and Tuesday, as the storm passes to our south, with daytime temperatures sinking into the 50s and low 60s behind a cold front.
But then the sunshine returns for a few days next week. Temperatures will be about 10 degrees cooler than we're seeing this week, but still above the norms for this time of year in Baltimore.
Still, even as the spring equinox arrives at 1:33 p.m. EDT on Saturday, the snows of February hang on. Here's a pile off Old Padonia Road in Baltimore County. The photo was taken Friday morning.
(SUN PHOTO/ Frank D. Roylance)