December 24th Christmas Eve Early Morning Light Icy Mix

24 December 2024

Report Monday morning

The result of a couple of very cold nights will allow this light precipitation to hold. It only lasts a few hours AND is just enough for a light coating. Light snow will fall a coating, but mixed with freezing rain for a possible icing into central Maryland.

If you travel north, there is more snow in the Poconos and from metro Philadelphia to metro New York. Again, this is just a morning event.

Christmas looks cold and dry. Thursday’s snow potential is gone… so we’ll just get slightly below average temperatures and quiet until the weekend brings us rain and warming.

Looking ahead, the computer modeling is split on this year’s warming and the BIG COOL DOWN, which starts in 2025.

WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY

My original call for winter weather

This timing has come faster/approx. 1 to 2 hours earlier.

Impact on road travel

Central Maryland along Rt 140

Interstate 83 between Baltimore and north to Harrisburg, PA

CLIMATE DATA: Baltimore

TODAY December 24

Sunrise at 7:24

Sunset at 16.50

Normal low in Baltimore: 28ºF

Record 4ºF in 1983

Normal high in Baltimore: 45ºF

Record 71ºF 2015

Baltimore drought update

• 7.70 inches BELOW AVERAGE rainfall since September 1st
• 8.18 inches BELOW AVERAGE rainfall since January 1st

Local morning temperatures

The ground has been sufficiently cold enough to support light snow sticking or icing from freezing rain.

Doppler Radar Snapshot at 6:00 a.m

Brisk snowfall will mix with sleet and freezing rain closer to Baltimore and Annapolis over the next two hours.

Surface weather in the morning

This is a weak system bringing a quick punch of snow through the Poconos and up through metro New York this morning.

Just a light coating along I-95.

Light snow to freezing rain in central Maryland will only last a few hours.

Live radar (NOT IN WINTER MODE)

Radar simulations

The models have problems with this rainfall and they differ on how it behaves in Maryland.

The agreement is that it will be a few hours and be finished at

HRRR model

NAM 3 km

Afternoon temperatures

WEDNESDAY 25 DECEMBER: CHRISTMAS DAY

Morning temperatures

Afternoon temperatures

Friday to Monday

Pattern change will bring showers on Saturday and then a more even rain on Sunday. This will come with a push of warmer temperatures for a few days.

Snapshot Saturday

Snapshot Sunday

Jet Stream forecast

Sunday to January 2: The warm-up will be brief and turn colder back in early January.

7 day weather forecast

Temperatures will remain seasonably cool for a few days with little variation.

The next storm will be part of the warmer shift in the jet stream that will bring showers on Saturday and then heavier rain on Sunday.

Temperatures can reach near 60F for a few days, including New Year’s Day, but they get much colder in January.

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