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Marine Weather and Tides Highland Beach, MD Version 3.4

NOTICE 12/16/2019 NOAA is having trouble with requests that include wind gusts. I am posting graphs without wind gusts until it gets fixed. 10/9/2019 Updated the Marine Zones. 9/4/2019 Fixed the weather maps due to NOAA moving them. 7/25/2019 New feature in the Airports section gives a link to 5 minute updates for data reports.

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Sunrise 7:17AM

Sunset 5:17PM

Thursday January 23, 2020 2:59 AM EST (07:59 UTC)

Moonrise 6:29AM

Moonset 4:08PM

Illumination 4%

NOTE: Some of the data on this page has not been verified and should be used with that in mind. It may and occasionally will, be wrong. The tide reports are by xtide and are NOT FOR NAVIGATION.

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7 Day Forecast for Marine Location Near Highland Beach town, MD

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Area Discussion for - Baltimore, MD/Washington

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FXUS61 KLWX 230222 AFDLWX

Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Baltimore MD/Washington DC 922 PM EST Wed Jan 22 2020

SYNOPSIS. High pressure continues to maintain control of the region and will gradually transition offshore by Friday. Low pressure will approach the region from the Midwest by Friday, before slowly moving northward towards New England during the second half of the weekend. High pressure returns Sunday and lingers into early next week.

NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM THURSDAY MORNING/. With high pressure still in control, winds have gone calm this evening in many spots. Some high clouds have started to filter in ahead of a system over the center of the country, but there are still a fair number of breaks in the clouds. This has allowed temperatures to drop quickly this evening. While winds will remain light through the overnight hours, the presence of intermittent high clouds and slightly higher dewpoints will hold temperatures up a few degrees compared to previous nights. Low temperatures will be in the upper teens and low 20s for most, with mid-upper 20s in the immediate urban areas, as well as along the shores of Chesapeake Bay.

SHORT TERM /6 AM THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT/. High pressure will continue to move offshore throughout the day on Thursday. While conditions will remain dry, clouds will begin increasing during the afternoon, ahead of the low pressure system, set to impact the region for Friday. Temperatures across the region on Thursday continue to gently nudge higher, as weak southerly flow advects warmer air into the region.

Model guidance has come into better agreement over the last 24 hours in regards to precip timing and type. Overall, Friday looks to remain dry for the majority of the CWA. Precip will begin encroaching into the region from the southwest mid-late Friday morning. With the amount of dry air in place ahead of the system, thinking it will take some time for the atmospheric column to saturate. With that being said, looks like precip onset will begin for southwestern portions of the CWA, mainly after noontime. However, kept slight chance of PoPs in this area to better coincide with neighboring offices. If precip does in fact begin during the morning hours for the aforementioned areas, with temperatures being slightly below freezing, could see a brief period of snow/freezing rain before p-type changes to all rain by the afternoon. Overall guidance has trended downward in regards to any wintry p-types; keeping it mainly along the higher elevations of the Allegheny Front. Therefore, thinking that by the time the precip gets going, temperatures will be warm enough to support rain. This seems like the most logical scenario as the track of the low, along with limited cold air in place ahead of system doesn't necessarily favor winter p-type.

Rain will increase in intensity overnight Friday, before tapering off Saturday morning. A colder northwest flow will allow for some snow showers along and west of the Allegheny Front overnight.

LONG TERM /SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/. A mid/upper cutoff low will move E/NE out of the Ohio Valley toward southern New England Saturday. Initially, surface low pressure will be moving from near Indianapolis to Detroit, but a second area of surface low pressure developing near central Virginia will take over and track toward southern New England. At this point, most of the forcing (low-level frontogenesis and mid/upper divergence) appear to be ahead of the low when the airmass is relatively warm, which is expected to lead to all rain Saturday east of the Appalachians. However, closer to the upper low and colder mid-level temperatures, precipitation will probably have changed to snow over the higher terrain along the Allegheny Front by daybreak Saturday. Intense lift along a mid- level trough axis could lead to enough dynamic cooling to result in a brief changeover to/burst of snow for higher elevations east of the Allegheny Front (but west of the Blue Ridge) as precipitation ends, but overall this pattern does not favor widespread significant wintry precipitation outside of the higher elevations. Latest model/ensemble trends are favoring less snow with the low itself even over the higher terrain.

The trough axis and surface low move northeast of the area which should lead to an end in precipitation for much of the area Saturday afternoon and evening. As the upper low pivots east and deep-layer northwest flow kicks in, this should lead to upslope snow showers over the Allegheny Front Saturday night into Sunday.

Breezy and cold but mainly dry conditions are expected to end the weekend and into early next week east of the mountains, but persistent northwest flow will lead to intermittent snow shower chances along and west of the Allegheny Front.

AVIATION /02Z THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY/. VFR conditions will continue through Thursday as high pressure moves offshore. Light and variable winds are expected to continue overnight tonight.

Clouds will increase on Thursday with MVFR CIGs likely developing by Thursday night. As low pressure approaches the region on Friday MVFR CIGs/VSBYs will reduce to IFR by late Friday as heavier rain develops across the region. MVFR/IFR CIGs/VSBYs in rain continue early Sat AM. VFR CIGs return by Saturday afternoon. NW flow brings gusts 20+ kts likely late Saturday into Sunday.

MARINE. Light winds continue through tonight into tomorrow. Winds will gradually increase Friday as low pressure approaches from the west. Small Craft Advisory conditions become possible Friday night and continue into Sunday. Gusty NW winds behind the departing low are likely to exceed 20 kts at times Saturday into Sunday.

LWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES. DC . None. MD . None. VA . None. WV . None. MARINE . None.

SYNOPSIS . MSS NEAR TERM . KJP SHORT TERM . MSS LONG TERM . DHOF AVIATION . MSS/DHOF MARINE . MSS/DHOF

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Weather Reporting Stations

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Stations	Dist	Age	Wind	Air Temp	Water Temp	Waves	Pressure	DewPt
TPLM2 - Thomas Point, MD	2 mi	60 min	W 2.9 G 4.1	32°F	39°F		1031.3 hPa (-0.5)	27°F
APAM2 - 8575512 - Annapolis, MD	4 mi	60 min		28°F			1030.1 hPa (-0.3)
CPVM2	6 mi	60 min		31°F
BSLM2 - Chesapeake Bay, MD	17 mi	150 min	Calm				1030 hPa
FSKM2 - 8574728 - Francis Scott Key Bridge, MD	20 mi	60 min	W 1.9 G 1.9	30°F			1030.7 hPa (-0.7)
FSNM2	20 mi	72 min	WNW 2.9 G 4.1	32°F			1029.9 hPa
TCBM2 - 8573364 - Tolchester Beach, MD	22 mi	66 min	E 1.9 G 2.9	26°F	38°F		1030.6 hPa
BLTM2 - 8574680 - Baltimore, MD	24 mi	66 min	Calm G 1.9	29°F	42°F		1030.2 hPa
WASD2 - 8594900 - Washington, DC	31 mi	60 min	Calm G 0	31°F	41°F		1031.1 hPa (-0.6)
CA2 - 8571892 - Cambridge, MD	32 mi	66 min	Calm G 0	29°F	38°F		1030.5 hPa
SLIM2 - 8577330 - Solomons Island, MD	42 mi	60 min	NW 2.9 G 2.9	30°F	42°F		1030.3 hPa (-0.5)

Wind History for Francis Scott Key Bridge NE Tower, MD

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Airport Reports

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Airport	Dist	Age	Wind kt	Visibility	Sky/Weather	Temp	DewPt	Humidity	Pressure
Annapolis, United States Naval Academy, MD	4 mi	2.1 hrs	N 0	8.00 mi	Fair	27°F	23°F	85%	1031 hPa
Bay Bridge Field, MD	7 mi	75 min	no data	10.00 mi	Fair	25°F	21°F	86%	1030.5 hPa
Fort Meade / Tipton, MD	20 mi	72 min	N 0	10.00 mi	Fair	21°F	19°F	93%	1031.2 hPa
Baltimore, Baltimore-Washington International Airport, MD	21 mi	66 min	N 0	10.00 mi	Partly Cloudy	24°F	19°F	81%	1030.3 hPa
Easton / Newman Field, MD	22 mi	56 min	N 0	10.00 mi	Fair	26°F	20°F	79%	1031.5 hPa
Camp Springs / Andrews Air Force Base, MD	23 mi	2.1 hrs	N 0	10.00 mi	Fair	23°F	18°F	83%	1031.2 hPa

Link to 5 minute data for KBWI

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Tide / Current Tables for Bay Ridge, Maryland

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Tide / Current Tables for Baltimore Harbor Approach, Maryland Current

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Wind Forecast for Baltimore, MD/Washington (2,6,7,8)

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Ground Weather Radar Station Dover AFB, DE

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