Skies are gray in Baltimore Monday morning and the forecast doesn’t show much relief until Saturday.
There is a chance of showers overnight, according to the National Weather Service forecast, with rain showers likely on Tuesday. There’s also a chance of showers or storms every day this week.
The high for Baltimore does not go above 78 degrees this week, with forecast temperatures reaching as low as 65 degrees Thursday night.
Brendon Rubin-Oster, a meteorologist with the Baltimore-Washington Office of the National Weather Service, said the cloudy, rainy conditions forecast for the region are mostly, but not exclusively, related to the bigger storm that’s over North Carolina and South Carolina.
That storm, which is currently only a “potential” tropical cyclone, is expected to bring tropical storm conditions to that region sometime today, according to a public bulletin from the National Hurricane Center. If the storm strengthens into a named storm, it would be known as Helene.
That storm is almost “co-located” with upper atmosphere disturbances over the southeastern U.S. and mid-Atlantic regions, said Rubin-Oster, which is bringing those unsettled conditions to Maryland.
The Baltimore region will be dreary and see some increased chances of minor tidal flooding within the Chesapeake Bay, Rubin-Oster said, but not likely powerful the storm conditions seen further south.
The Baltimore area saw 6.22 inches of rain in August, which is more than the expected normal of 4.09 inches, according to data from the National Weather Service.
However, the region experienced several days in a row of no rainfall whatsoever — and most of the rain that fell in the region came before Aug. 10. There has been just 0.01 inches of rain recorded in the Baltimore area so far in September, according to the same data.
The latest seasonal outlook from the NWS Climate Prediction Center shows Maryland as leaning toward a wetter-than-normal autumn and likely to have a warmer-than-normal autumn.
