{"id":7887,"date":"2023-04-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/?p=7887"},"modified":"2023-04-18T00:50:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T04:50:15","slug":"morning-update-temperatures-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/2023\/04\/18\/morning-update-temperatures-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Update: Temperatures on the Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Today:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Skies will start out partly cloudy and completely clear up early afternoon. Temperatures will be similar to yesterday with highs in the upper 60&#8217;s. Humidity will be extremely low with dew points in the mid 20&#8217;s. Dry air combined with a strong 15 mph gusting to 30 mph wind from the west will bring an increased risk of wildfires across the greater area. The greater area is under a fire watch through this evening, though this is just precautionary. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.discordapp.com\/attachments\/1065488928402046976\/1097710636500271174\/image.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">The Fire watch will be over the entire NWS Baltimore-Washington jurisdiction (Image courtesy NOAA and NWS)<\/span><\/h6>\n<p><strong>Tonight:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After sunset, winds will completely calm and skies will remain crystal clear. Lows will drop into the upper 40&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tomorrow (Wednesday):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Temperatures warm significantly, as highs could hit 80 Wednesday. Not a cloud in the sky all day long. A strong breeze will blow from the west at 10 mph gusting past 15 mph.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Look Ahead:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The work week will finish out blazing hot with highs right around 90 Thursday and Friday. The weekend will be rainy and windy, a sharp decrease in temperature can be expected between Saturday and Sunday. Over a half an inch of rain is forecast. Next week looking to me much more mild with highs in the low 60&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Featured Image via Matt Collins<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today: Skies will start out partly cloudy and completely clear up early afternoon. Temperatures will be similar to yesterday with highs in the upper 60&#8217;s. Humidity will be extremely low with dew points in the mid 20&#8217;s. Dry air combined&hellip; <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/2023\/04\/18\/morning-update-temperatures-on-the-rise\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":7431,"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-7887","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\/2022\/10\/IMG_0810.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887","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\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7890,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887\/revisions\/7890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}