Maryland weather: Sunny skies expected through the weekend
May 28—The National Weather Service is calling for clear and sunny skies through the weekend in the Baltimore area.
Temperatures are expected to reach the high 70s on Thursday afternoon before falling into the 50s at night.
Friday should be sunny with highs in the upper 70s. Friday night is predicted to have a low temperature of 60 degrees.
Saturday is expected to be hotter with an afternoon high around 87 degrees before temperatures fall to the mid-60s at night.
Sunday and Monday are also expected to be sunny with afternoon highs around 87. Rain does not return to the forecast until Tuesday when there is a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Rain was prevalent last weekend through Memorial Day, a stretch that ended with evening thunderstorms causing fast winds that brought down trees in the area.
Some quarter-sized hail was spotted Monday near Mount Airy, while trees blew down on Interstate 83 near the Baltimore Beltway, according to the National Weather Service, which also noted that a 911 call center reported a house in Towson had been struck by lightning.
Lightning also struck a large dawn redwood at Cylburn Arboretum, destroying the tree, according to the nonprofit that maintains the public garden.
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"The tree literally exploded throwing wood and branches all over the lawn," Cylburn Arboretum Friends, the nonprofit, said in a Tuesday post on Instagram.
The brief evening storm resulted in more than a quarter of an inch of rain falling near BWI Marshall Airport, where maximum wind gusts of about 20 mph were logged just before 8 p.m. Gusts of up to 36 knots, or 41 mph, were recorded about an hour later on a jetty on the Magothy River in Anne Arundel County.
Several areas in the region were under a tornado warning Monday night, though no funnels were spotted in Maryland. The weather service confirmed that a tornado touched down in Rixeyville, Virginia, for about eight minutes Monday night, traveling about 4.8 miles and injuring five people who were in a large shed that was overturned.
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