{"id":6552,"date":"2020-12-09T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/?p=6552"},"modified":"2020-12-09T00:03:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T05:03:15","slug":"morning-update-flurries-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/2020\/12\/09\/morning-update-flurries-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Update: Flurries Maybe?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Today:\u00a0<\/strong>A slight chance of light rain and even flurries will be present in the region during the early afternoon, though no significant impacts are expected. Otherwise, it&#8217;ll be cool and cloudy throughout the day with skies beginning to clear up by evening. Winds will be out of the southwest at 5-7 mph. The high will be 43.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" src=\"http:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/noaad2-1-800x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/noaad2-1-800x577.jpg 800w, https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/noaad2-1-500x361.jpg 500w, https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/noaad2-1.jpg 887w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Frontal map of the United States for today, showing possible snow in parts of the northeast.<br>(<em>Image via WPC<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tonight:\u00a0<\/strong>Partly cloudy and dry conditions are expected through the night as a ridge of high pressure begins to move into the region. Winds will shift the northwest at 6-8 mph. The low will be 32.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thursday:\u00a0<\/strong>With high pressure firmly built into the region at this point, you can expect a bright sunny day with minimal cloud cover. In addition, winds will be decreasing as the day goes on. Expect a high of 50.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thursday Night:\u00a0<\/strong>Not much change in the skies from the previous 24 hours as clear and dry conditions are still expected overnight. Winds will shift to the south while remaining light.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Look Ahead:\u00a0<\/strong>Friday and Saturday look to be more of the same with sunny skies and milder temps as highs creep into the mid to upper 50s. The next storm system doesn&#8217;t appear to threaten the region until Saturday night into Sunday where rain and unseasonably mild temps are likely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured Image via Pixabay.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today:\u00a0A slight chance of light rain and even flurries will be present in the region during the early afternoon, though no significant impacts are expected. Otherwise, it&#8217;ll be cool and cloudy throughout the day with skies beginning to clear up&hellip; <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/2020\/12\/09\/morning-update-flurries-maybe\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":6555,"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":[],"class_list":["post-6552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather-discussion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/snowflake-1245748_1920.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552","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\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6552"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6559,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552\/revisions\/6559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}