38.9830, -78.9090

1. Sat10 AM51°9%6 mph
2. 11 AM51°5%5 mph
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38. 11 PM57°1%2 mph
39. Mon12 AM57°1%2 mph
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43. 4 AM55°5 mph
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45. 6 AM53°5 mph
46. 7 AM53°6 mph
47. 8 AM52°6 mph
48. 9 AM53°7 mph

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1. TodayOct 355°50°Mostly Cloudy27%0.03 inwind 10 mph · gusts 16 mph
2. SunOct 459°52°Chance Rain Showers54%0.06 inwind 3 mph
3. MonOct 559°40°Sunny1%wind 10 mph · gusts 20 mph
4. TueOct 655°40°Sunny0%wind 8 mph
5. WedOct 761°46°Sunny0%wind 9 mph
6. ThuOct 864°48°Sunny0%wind 9 mph
7. FriOct 964°47°Sunny1%wind 7 mph
8. SatOct 1063°51°9%wind 6 mph
9. SunOct 1164°54°National Blend35%0.09 inwind 9 mph · gusts 16 mph
10. MonOct 1263°52°National Blend39%0.31 inwind 12 mph · gusts 17 mph
11. TueOct 1358°46°National Blend27%0.11 inwind 12 mph · gusts 17 mph
12. WedOct 14~66°59°Model mean0.35 in
13. ThuOct 15~74°56°Model mean0.10 in
14. FriOct 16~71°59°Model mean0.04 in
15. SatOct 17~63°53°Model mean0.07 in
16. SunOct 18~55°42°Model mean1.38 in

• Feels like51°
• WindNNE 6 mphgusts 12 mph
• Radar over this pointno reading
• Humidity89%
• Dew point48°
• Pressure—
• UV index—
• Air quality—
• Visibility9 mi
• Sunrise and sunsetSunrise · Sunset
• Moonrise—Moonset 3:00 PM
• Moon phaseLast quarter54% lit

NOAA’s weighted blend of every model it runs, to eleven days, with the chances the grid above does not carry. Where the local office’s grid reaches, its figure sits beneath the blend’s; where it does not, the blend stands alone.

1. TodayOct 354°52°NWS grid 55° / 50°rain 27%wind 7 mph · gusts 14 mph
2. SunOct 458°51°NWS grid 59° / 52°rain 52%0.04 inwind 3 mph
3. MonOct 559°41°NWS grid 59° / 40°rain 0%wind 10 mph · gusts 18 mph
4. TueOct 656°41°NWS grid 55° / 40°rain 0%wind 6 mph
5. WedOct 762°46°NWS grid 61° / 46°rain 0%wind 8 mph
6. ThuOct 865°48°NWS grid 64° / 48°rain 1%wind 7 mph
7. FriOct 964°48°NWS grid 64° / 47°rain 1%wind 6 mph · gusts 12 mph
8. SatOct 1063°50°NWS grid 63° / 51°rain 9%wind 8 mph
9. SunOct 1164°54°Beyond the NWS gridrain 35%0.09 inwind 9 mph · gusts 16 mph
10. MonOct 1263°52°Beyond the NWS gridrain 39%0.31 inwind 12 mph · gusts 17 mph
11. TueOct 1358°46°Beyond the NWS gridrain 27%0.11 inwind 12 mph · gusts 17 mph

Each line is one model’s own forecast at its own grid cell: three kilometers for HRRR, a quarter of a degree for the global models, which can sit a few hundred meters above or below the town. Where they agree the forecast is settled; where they part is where it is not.

NWS gridBlendHRRRGFSGEFS ± spreadECMWFECMWF AI

A ~ marks a high or low read from six-hourly steps, which miss the true extreme by a degree or two.

ECMWF ensemble meteogram

10 daysTemperature plume

No forecast has skill day by day past about two weeks, and this page does not print one. Where the models stop, the calendar takes over: the 1991 to 2020 normal for each date, the record high and low ever set on it, and where the Climate Prediction Center leans warm, cool, wet or dry over the coming weeks, the month and the season. A site that shows a high for a date three months out is showing you this normal with a wobble.

The forecast reaches Sun Oct 18, from the NWS grid, then the National Blend, then the mean of the global models. Beyond it the lines are the calendar.

Forecast high and lowNormal high and lowRecord high and lowCPC leans warmer than normalCPC near normal or equal chances

None of these is a measurement. Each is a rating of the forecast ahead, and of what is happening at the point right now, against what the activity or the ailment is known to mind, and each names the figure that decided it. An ailment or a pest is rated as a risk, low to extreme; an activity, a chore or a journey as a condition, poor to ideal.

Each rating says which span it is for: the rest of today’s daylight, tonight, or the next 24 hours.

Tonight has no dark, clear hour without a bright moon in this forecast. Rated poor.

Dark is the sun 18 degrees below the horizon; where it never gets that low, 12 degrees, marked nautical. Clear is sky cover of 20% or less. A bright moon is one above the horizon with a quarter or more of its disc lit. Transparency in the table is estimated from surface humidity (70% and 85% mark fair and poor) and visibility, since the forecast carries no haze or high cloud moisture. Seeing and transparency by hour, where shown, are Environment and Climate Change Canada’s astronomy forecast (regional model; seeing from cloud, wind shear, turbulence near the ground and the surface temperature trend; transparency from the moisture through the whole air column), under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Dew is the air within 2 °C of its dew point. Excellent is four or more clear moonless hours with good transparency; good is three; fair is one, or two clear hours.

Golden hour is the sun between 6 degrees above the horizon and 4 degrees below it; blue hour is the sun between 4 and 6 degrees below. These are the definitions timeanddate.com and PhotoPills use. Directions are degrees clockwise from true north, where the sun’s upper edge and the moon’s center cross a flat horizon; hills and buildings change both. None means the sun does not reach that height on the day; all day means it stays inside the band.

This hour: good to fly. Next good stretch: Sat 10 AM to 12 PM, 2 hours.

Today: civil twilight for Part 107 6:44 AM to sunrise 7:14 AM, and sunset 6:55 PM to 7:25 PM. Anti-collision lighting is required in those minutes and at night.

Good Caution No-fly

Flight restrictions nearby

Reading the FAA’s temporary flight restrictions.

Flight restrictions on the map. TFRs are not the whole picture: controlled airspace around airports needs LAANC authorization. Check the FAA’s B4UFLY.

Wind at 400 ft is estimated from the 10 m forecast by the power law, with exponents for each Pasquill stability class (Irwin 1979, rural, as in EPA dispersion models; the class from wind, sun height and cloud, after Turner 1970); gusts keep the ground gust’s margin. Caution from three quarters of your limit; the default 24 mph is the wind resistance printed for common sub-250 g drones. 14 CFR 107.51: “The minimum flight visibility, as observed from the location of the control station must be no less than 3 statute miles” and at least “500 feet below the cloud”. 14 CFR 107.29: “No person may operate a small unmanned aircraft system during periods of civil twilight unless the small unmanned aircraft has lighted anti-collision lighting visible for at least 3 statute miles”; civil twilight is the 30 minutes before sunrise and after sunset, in Alaska the Air Almanac’s. Kp: SWPC’s scales say satellite navigation problems may occur at G3 (Kp 7) and navigation is “degraded for hours” at G4 (Kp 8); Kp 5 is the typical app warning. Typical limits, not rules: rain chance 30% caution and 60% no-fly, thunder 10% and 20%, below 0 °C caution and −10 °C no-fly, over 40 °C caution. Your drone’s manual and the airspace come first.

Hours fit for spraying, and the days dry enough for fieldwork and hay, read from this forecast’s wind, gusts, humidity, temperature and rain.

Spraying windows

• Mon 10 PM to Tue 4 AM 6 hours, every hour within the rules
• Tue 9 AM to 12 PM 3 hours, every hour within the rules
• Tue 10 PM to Wed 4 AM 6 hours, every hour within the rules
• Wed 9 AM to 11 PM 14 hours, every hour within the rules
• Thu 4 AM to 6 AM 2 hours, every hour within the rules
• Thu 1 PM to Fri 6 AM 17 hours, every hour within the rules
• Fri 9 AM to Sat 3 AM 18 hours, every hour within the rules
• Sat 4 AM to 7 AM 3 hours, every hour within the rules

Good Marginal No

Field days

Spraying: sustained wind 3 to 10 mph, the range US extension services and most labels give; gusts no more than 15 mph (this page’s limit); delta T (air minus wet-bulb temperature) 2 to 8 °C preferred and 8 to 10 °C marginal, from GRDC guidance, with the wet bulb by Stull’s formula; no hour at a 30% chance of rain or 0.25 mm forecast during the rain-free time. Follow the product label, which overrides all of this. Field days: dry is no daytime hour at a 30% chance and under 1 mm all day, wet is 6 mm (0.25 in) or more; soil moisture is not in the forecast, so ground still wet from earlier rain is not accounted for. Hay drying marks a dry day with humidity down to 50% and a breeze of 5 mph or more.

The best-rated day this week is Friday, rated best.

Periods in bold fall within an hour of sunrise or sunset. The weather’s side is the fishing index

Major periods are two hours centered on the moon’s passage overhead and underfoot; minor periods are one hour centered on moonrise and moonset: the conventional durations of John Alden Knight’s solunar tables (1936). The rating is this site’s: one point to start, two more within a day and a half of a new or full moon (one more within three and a half days), and one more when a period falls within an hour of sunrise or sunset. The theory has mixed support in fisheries research; the times are exact astronomy.

1. Today55° · 11% · NE 2–6 mph

   Mostly cloudy, with a high near 55. Northeast wind 2 to 6 mph.

2. Tonight53° · 35% · SE 3 mph

   A chance of rain showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 53. Southeast wind around 3 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

3. Sunday59° · 54% · SE 2 mph

   A chance of rain showers before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 59. Southeast wind around 2 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.

4. Sunday Night52° · 1% · W 0–5 mph

   Mostly cloudy, with a low around 52. West wind 0 to 5 mph.

5. Monday59° · NW 5–10 mph

   Sunny, with a high near 59. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

6. Monday Night40° · NW 5–10 mph

   Mostly clear, with a low around 40.

7. Tuesday55° · N 1–5 mph

   Sunny, with a high near 55.

8. Tuesday Night40° · SE 1–5 mph

   Clear, with a low around 40.

9. Wednesday61° · S 6 mph

   Sunny, with a high near 61.

10. Wednesday Night46° · S 5–9 mph

    Mostly clear, with a low around 46.

11. Thursday64° · W 2–6 mph

    Sunny, with a high near 64.

12. Thursday Night48° · W 3–7 mph

    Mostly clear, with a low around 48.

13. Friday64° · 1% · W 6 mph

    Sunny, with a high near 64.

14. Friday Night47° · 2% · W 6 mph

    Mostly clear, with a low around 47.

Written by the forecaster on duty for their own colleagues and for anyone who wants to know why the forecast says what it says. It is not edited for the public, so it uses the office’s shorthand; it is also the most honest thing any weather service publishes.

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Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Baltimore MD/Washington DC
516 AM EDT Sat Oct 3 2026

ANZ530>543-DCZ001-MDZ008-011-013-014-016>018-504-506-508-
VAZ053>057-527-040930-
Chesapeake Bay north of Pooles Island MD-
Chesapeake Bay from Pooles Island to Sandy Point MD-
Chesapeake Bay from Sandy Point to North Beach MD-
Chesapeake Bay from North Beach to Drum Point MD-
Chesapeake Bay from Drum Point MD to Smith Point VA-
Tidal Potomac from Key Bridge to Indian Head MD-
Tidal Potomac from Indian Head to Cobb Island MD-
Tidal Potomac from Cobb Island MD to Smith Point VA-
Patapsco River including Baltimore Harbor-
Chester River to Queenstown MD-Eastern Bay-
Choptank River to Cambridge MD and the Little Choptank River-
Patuxent River to Broomes Island MD-
Tangier Sound and the inland waters surrounding Bloodsworth
Island-District of Columbia-Cecil-Southern Baltimore-
Prince Georges-Anne Arundel-Charles-St. Marys-Calvert-
Central and Southeast Montgomery-Central and Southeast Howard-
Southeast Harford-Fairfax-Arlington/Falls Church/Alexandria-
Stafford-Spotsylvania-King George-
Central and Southeast Prince William/Manassas/Manassas Park-
516 AM EDT Sat Oct 3 2026

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the Maryland portion of the
Chesapeake Bay, Tidal Potomac River, and I-95 corridor through
central Maryland, northern Virginia, and District of Columbia.

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday

No hazardous weather is expected at this time. 

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

$$

MDZ003>006-503-505-507-VAZ025>031-036>040-050-051-501-502-505>508-
526-WVZ050>053-055-040930-
Washington-Frederick-Carroll-Northern Baltimore-
Northwest Montgomery-Northwest Howard-Northwest Harford-Augusta-
Rockingham-Shenandoah-Page-Warren-Clarke-Nelson-Albemarle-Greene-
Madison-Rappahannock-Orange-Culpeper-Northern Fauquier-
Southern Fauquier-Western Loudoun-Eastern Loudoun-
Northern Virginia Blue Ridge-Central Virginia Blue Ridge-
Northwest Prince William-Hampshire-Morgan-Berkeley-Jefferson-
Hardy-
516 AM EDT Sat Oct 3 2026

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of eastern West
Virginia, northern and central Virginia, and central and western
Maryland.

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday

Frost or freeze conditions are possible Monday night and Tuesday 
night along and west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. 

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

$$

MDZ501-502-509-510-VAZ503-504-WVZ501>506-040930-
Extreme Western Allegany-Central and Eastern Allegany-
Western Garrett-Eastern Garrett-Western Highland-Eastern Highland-
Western Grant-Eastern Grant-Western Mineral-Eastern Mineral-
Western Pendleton-Eastern Pendleton-
516 AM EDT Sat Oct 3 2026

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the Allegheny Front
counties in western Maryland, eastern West Virginia, and Highland
County Virginia.

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday

Frost or freeze conditions are possible Monday night and Tuesday 
night. 

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

$$

The national centers each publish a judgment the local grid does not carry. Read here at this exact coordinate.

The last spring freeze (32°F) usually comes around April 29 and the first fall freeze around October 15: a growing season of about 167 days.

One fall in ten brings a freeze by September 30; one spring in ten still has one after May 17.

Climate of 38.98, -78.91: normals, records and every month

The forecast office edits about sixty fields for every cell of its grid. The common ones are above; these are the rest, as the daily extreme, for anyone who needs the mixing height, the fire danger or the swell.

Each forecast day against the same calendar date at the nearest long-record station: the 1991 to 2020 normal, and the record high and low with the year they were set.