{"id":6795,"date":"2021-03-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/?p=6795"},"modified":"2021-03-23T10:53:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T14:53:41","slug":"morning-update-first-full-week-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/2021\/03\/23\/morning-update-first-full-week-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Update: First Full Week of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week, we&#8217;ll be kicking off spring the right way. Warm weather, a chance of showers, and possibly a thunderstorm? We have it all this week!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Low level moisture from onshore flow last night is expected to linger, so today we can expect a fair amount of cloud cover; some areas will experience overcast all day, while others could see considerable sunshine peaking through the clouds. The high temperature will be in the low to mid 60s F, with a light breeze from the northeast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tonight:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The clouds will continue to linger, with rain expected to begin sometime overnight. Don&#8217;t fret; we probably won&#8217;t get much rain (i.e., less than one-tenth of an inch), but the light showers will give you spring vibes tomorrow morning. The low tonight will be 50 F.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tomorrow (Wednesday):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rain will likely continue into the early afternoon, and we can expect mostly cloudy skies after the rain stops. Today, the high will be very similar to yesterday&#8217;s high at around 62 degrees F. Expect a mild, calm night after daylight hours on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6797\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6797\" class=\"wp-image-6797 \" src=\"http:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/6-hr_ProbabilisticQPF_Mar24_12Z-18Z-500x376.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"462\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our area is most likely to experience more than 0.01 inches of rain between 8am and 2pm on Wednesday. This is the 6-hr Probabilistic Qualitative Precipitation Forecast for 12Z through 18Z on Wednesday March 24th, 2021 as of 5pm March 22nd. Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/pqpf\/conus_hpc_pqpf.php?fpd=24\">WPC<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>A Look Ahead:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The rest of the week will be considerably more interesting than the past few days. Highs on Thursday and Friday will be 73 and 77 degrees F, respectively &#8211; well above normal highs for this time of year. A thunderstorm is possible late Thursday into Friday, but it is hard to say when it will be most likely to occur as of right now. I will on the edge of my seat checking how this disturbance shapes up later this week!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image via pixabay.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we&#8217;ll be kicking off spring the right way. Warm weather, a chance of showers, and possibly a thunderstorm? We have it all this week! Today: Low level moisture from onshore flow last night is expected to linger, so&hellip; <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/2021\/03\/23\/morning-update-first-full-week-of-spring\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":6798,"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-6795","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\/2021\/03\/storm-clouds-420179_1920.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6795"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6801,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions\/6801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}