312 FXUS61 KLWX 071853 AFDLWXArea Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Baltimore MD/Washington DC 253 PM EDT Sun Sep 7 2025
.SYNOPSIS... High pressure will build in from the west through Monday, then settle to the north of the area by the middle of the week as a wave of low pressure passes offshore. As a result, expect a return to cooler than normal temperatures and mainly dry conditions across the region. A dry cold front will cross the region Thursday reinforcing below normal temperatures. High pressure will return for the end of the week.
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.NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... Cumulus and nimbostratus clouds, along with patchy drizzle and a stray shower will exit to the east of eastern Virginia and southern Maryland over the next few hours. Behind this cluster of cloud cover and precipitation, a brief break to sunshine will be overtaken by strato cumulus clouds with the cool and dry air advection behind the departing cold front. High pressure will build toward the region tonight. A light to modest northwest wind will also evolve and temperatures overnight will drop into the 40s and 50s by late tonight. Colder in the mountains.
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.SHORT TERM /MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT/... High pressure will build to the north of the mid-Atlantic Monday into Tuesday, with a surface ridge axis wedging down the eastern side of the Appalachians. A wave of low pressure will develop offshore by Tuesday. This will result in north to northeasterly breezes and a continuation of below normal temperatures.
As low pressure passes offshore, clouds will increase east of the Blue Ridge Mountains Tuesday. A coastal front could spread some shower activity westward toward the I-95 corridor and metro areas Tuesday night into Wednesday. A dry wedge of high pressure will keep all other areas dry by early Wednesday.
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.LONG TERM /WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/... By mid-week, the longwave pattern across the country will remain quite amplified with troughing across the western/eastern U.S. and ridging over the middle of the country. The influence of this longwave trough pushing toward the East Coast helps induce a wave of low pressure along a stalled boundary offshore of the southeastern U.S. coast. Eventually the associated height falls push a secondary cold front through the local area on Thursday. While Canadian high pressure persists to the north, this anticyclone center gets reinforced behind this next boundary. As a result, high pressure remains in charge into next weekend. This will favor continued below average temperatures, cool mornings, and dry weather ahead.
On Wednesday, some enhanced cloud cover is expected along and east of I-95. This is in response to that passing wave of low pressure off toward the Atlantic. Any spotty shower chances would be confined to far southern Maryland during the first half of Wednesday. After a day in the low/mid 70s, a bit of a warm up ensues during subsequent days as winds shift to a northwesterly downslope flow behind the cold front. Abundant sunshine is likely through late in the week and into next weekend in response to broad subsidence in the atmosphere. High temperatures peak on Thursday and Friday with a forecast into the upper 70s to low 80s (mid 60s to mid 70s for the mountains). As high pressure settles off to the north, winds next weekend turn more onshore in nature. This helps usher temperatures back into the mid/upper 70s. Overnight lows during much of this forecast period will be in the upper 40s to 50s, locally a bit lower along the Allegheny Front.
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.AVIATION /19Z SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... Stratocumulus clouds in the lower and mid-level will overcome the sky through the rest of the afternoon into this evening, but dry conditions are expected at the terminals through tonight. High pressure will build toward and to the north of the region through Tuesday night. Winds will be or become northwest to northerly in general over the next 24 to 48 hours. Winds around 10 knots gusts 15 knots.
VFR conditions are expected at all TAF sites during the middle to latter portions of next week. High pressure largely anchors the northeastern U.S. while a secondary cold front moves through on Thursday. Initial winds will be out of the northeast before shifting to north-northwesterly behind the cold front on Thursday. Gusts up to 10 to 15 knots are possible during the afternoon hours. As high pressure re-builds to the north, winds shift to east-northeasterly by Friday.
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.MARINE... A couple of rain showers will move across the central waters of the Chesapeake Bay and Tidal Potomac over the next couple of hours. Small craft advisories will be cancelled or allow to be cancelled this afternoon as winds are diminishing immediately behind the convection. However; a new set of small craft advisories are in effect for midnight to 10 am Monday for northwest to north winds and gusts up to 20 knots.
On Wednesday, the combination of high pressure over New England and a coastal boundary off the southeastern U.S. will lead to increasing northerly flow. Some channeling effects are possible on Wednesday as gusts push to around 20 knots or so. Winds diminish into the night before a secondary cold front tracks through the waters on Thursday. This may lead to another ramp up in wind fields as they turn more northwesterly in nature.
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.LWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... DC...None. MD...None. VA...None. WV...None. MARINE...Small Craft Advisory from midnight tonight to 6 AM EDT Monday for ANZ531-538-540. Small Craft Advisory from midnight tonight to 10 AM EDT Monday for ANZ532>534-537-541>543. Small Craft Advisory until 4 PM EDT this afternoon for ANZ534- 537-543.
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SYNOPSIS...DHOF NEAR TERM...KLW/DHOF SHORT TERM...DHOF LONG TERM...BRO AVIATION...BRO/KLW MARINE...BRO/KLW
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