{"id":2389,"date":"2017-03-09T17:19:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T22:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2017-03-09T17:19:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T22:19:32","slug":"evening-update-pleasant-thursday-transitions-dreary-friday-snowstorm-looming-early-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/09\/evening-update-pleasant-thursday-transitions-dreary-friday-snowstorm-looming-early-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Update: Pleasant Thursday Transitions to Dreary Friday; Snowstorm Looming Early Next Week?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another winter day with above average temperatures. What&#8217;s new? March has brought us more seasonable weather than our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2017\/03\/08\/the-nations-freaky-february-warmth-was-assisted-by-climate-change\/?utm_term=.d56efb93bee7\">warm February did<\/a>, but it&#8217;s hard to complain about 7o degree weather anytime of the year. Enjoy today, because this weather will not be here next week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Through Tonight:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clear skies will stick around before midnight, but as a system moves in, we likely will see some rain showers by the time we wake up on Friday. Temperatures will dip down fairly quickly after sunset to the low to mid 40s, aided by clear skies. Gustier winds during the day will have diminished as well.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2390\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2390\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2390\" src=\"http:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/t2_F021_d02-800x629.jpeg\" alt=\"t2_F021_d02\" width=\"800\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/t2_F021_d02-800x629.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/t2_F021_d02-500x393.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/t2_F021_d02.jpeg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>College Park nearing 40 degrees tomorrow morning. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/trowal.weather.umd.edu\">UMD Trowal<\/a>)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Tomorrow (Friday):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow will be something to watch. A low pressure system predominantly to our north will probably keep areas College Park and southward wet, but areas to our north may very well see some light snow during the day. Projected high temperatures into the mid 40s will probably hold back our chances for meaningful accumulation, however don&#8217;t be surprised if some flakes fly throughout the day. Winds will start to pick up throughout the day as well, gusting upwards of 20 mph. Sorry snow lovers, it looks like the DC snow hole for this winter will continue.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2391\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2391\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2391\" src=\"http:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1136x690.jpeg.8fcee684f49144fd9c4dc3a6f1e34d26.large_-800x486.jpeg\" alt=\"1136x690.jpeg.8fcee684f49144fd9c4dc3a6f1e34d26.large\" width=\"800\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1136x690.jpeg.8fcee684f49144fd9c4dc3a6f1e34d26.large_-800x486.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1136x690.jpeg.8fcee684f49144fd9c4dc3a6f1e34d26.large_-500x304.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1136x690.jpeg.8fcee684f49144fd9c4dc3a6f1e34d26.large_.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Snowfall totals in the eastern U.S. for this winter. DC locales are extremely low compared to nearby places in Virginia and Pennsylvania. (via NOAA)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>A Look Ahead:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Potential snowstorm headed our way?!&#8221; It&#8217;s a broken record at this point, but yet again, models are looking hopeful to some type of wintry weather early next week. There is a lot of uncertainty in <em>where<\/em> the low pressure system would track, but nonetheless, the potential for snow is there. Stay tuned this weekend as we learn more!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2392\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2392\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2392\" src=\"http:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/gem-ememb_lowlocs_eus_23-800x614.jpg\" alt=\"gem-ememb_lowlocs_eus_23\" width=\"800\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/gem-ememb_lowlocs_eus_23-800x614.jpg 800w, https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/gem-ememb_lowlocs_eus_23-500x384.jpg 500w, https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/gem-ememb_lowlocs_eus_23.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The red numbers indicate the possible locations of the low pressure system of interest next week, which are very spread out currently. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tropicaltidbits.com\">Tropical Tidbits<\/a>)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Feature photo courtesy of Pixabay)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another winter day with above average temperatures. What&#8217;s new? March has brought us more seasonable weather than our warm February did, but it&#8217;s hard to complain about 7o degree weather anytime of the year. Enjoy today, because this weather will&hellip; <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/09\/evening-update-pleasant-thursday-transitions-dreary-friday-snowstorm-looming-early-next-week\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":2393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[63,80,12,6],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather-discussion","tag-cold","tag-march","tag-rain","tag-snow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/rain-380634_1280.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2398,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions\/2398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}