{"id":6304,"date":"2020-10-08T10:55:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T14:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/?p=6304"},"modified":"2020-10-08T10:55:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T14:55:14","slug":"morning-update-sunny-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/2020\/10\/08\/morning-update-sunny-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Update: Sunny Skies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Today:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s skies will be as clear as your minds are for midterms (fingers crossed!). Before class, temperatures will be in mid 50s with a gentle breeze of about 3 mph, optimal running weather to keep you calm, cool, and collected. Sunny skies will be accompanied by temperatures expected to reach a high of 68 F in the afternoon with winds of about 10 mph and gusts of 20 mph.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"420\" height=\"423\" src=\"http:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/10082020-temperature-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"6306\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/10082020-temperature-map.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/?attachment_id=6306\" class=\"wp-image-6306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/10082020-temperature-map.jpg 420w, https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/10082020-temperature-map-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Thursday weather map for the Baltimore\/Washington, D.C area. Temperatures will be in the high 60s over the Washington, D.C. area<br>(<em>image via&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/graphical.weather.gov\/\">https:\/\/graphical.weather.gov\/<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tonight:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Temperatures will come down slightly to 62 F by dusk with clear skies continuing to push late into the night. By this time, the winds will have calmed down to a breeze of about 6 mph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tomorrow (Friday):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomorrow morning offers sunny skies with little cloud cover and temperatures in the mid 60s by noon. Temperatures will reach a high of 70 F with a breeze of about 7 mph by 4 p.m. Be sure to unwind and enjoy your Friday afternoon outside after a week midterms and assignments!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Look Ahead:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Friday, the weekend is expected to be accompanied with a 20% chance of rain starting on Saturday in the afternoon with a high of 75 F. On Sunday, the chance of showers increases from the day before with its likelihood of occurring in the evening to about 60%. Temperature highs will be around 72 F with wind speeds of about 5 mph.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clear skies and excellent weather in the high 60s for Thursday, October 8th, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":6307,"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":[174,247,32,248],"class_list":["post-6304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather-discussion","tag-60s","tag-clear-skies-2","tag-clear-weather","tag-thursday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/tree-2916763_1920.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304","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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6304"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6312,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304\/revisions\/6312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}