Cold rain Tuesday; shower risk most of the week

The low temperature at BWI this morning was 36 degrees, just 3 degrees shy of the record low of 33, reached most recently on this date in 1983.

Today (Monday) looks like it could be the best day of the week, weatherwise, with clear, sunny skies and high temperatures still a bit cool - in the mid-60s - but pleasant, especially in the sunshine. The average high for May 10 in Baltimore is 72 degrees.

After that, however, the outlook gets a bit wetter, forecasters say. As the high pressure now over our heads begins to move off the coast on Tuesday, we'll come into a warmer, wetter flow of air as low pressure approaches out of the Midwest, dragging a warm front ahead of it out of the southwest.

By late Tuesday morning or early afternoon, we'll start to see some rain ahead of this front, if the forecast holds up. As much as a quarter-inch is possible in some spots. Temperatures will stay quite cool, with a forecast high for Tuesday of only 58 degrees.

But as the warm front presses through later on Tuesday and early Wednesday, temperatures will rise, pushing into the 70s, or low 80s on Wednesday, amid more showers and thunderstorms.

As the low passes, off to the east on Wednesday, a cold front will finally cross the region behind it, with the chance for more showers and thunderstorms. Behind the front on Thursday, the skies should clear out a bit, a high near 70 degrees. But more unsettled weather lies ahead for Friday.

Get your rays today. Keep the umbrella handy for the rest of the week.

(AP Photo)

Cold rain Tuesday; shower risk most of the week

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