Alert Day: Nicole remnants bring heavy rain, wind to Maryland

BALTIMORE — The remnants of Tropical Storm Nicole will carry rain, storms and gusty wind to Maryland Friday. WJZ’s First Alert group has declared Friday an Alert Day. 

Put together for a moist commute each methods, with temps peaking close to 70 Friday afternoon.  

Nicole is weakening over the Florida Panhandle and South Georgia Thursday evening and can grow to be a remnant low strain throughout the South Carolinas upstate on Friday. 

The low strain will monitor up the East Coast by way of Saturday bringing the specter of regionally heavy rainfall, gusty winds, and a low-end twister menace into Friday evening. 

All through the day, gusty winds will probably be doable with winds gusting over 30 mph throughout the afternoon and into Friday evening. A southerly wind all through the day will create some minor coastal flooding for communities on the center and higher parts of the Bay by way of Friday evening. 

Rainfall will complete round an inch with some spots seeing as much as 2″. The heaviest rain totals will stay west of Maryland throughout all the storm. 

There will probably be a low twister menace that may materialize Friday afternoon into Friday evening throughout Maryland. The extra favorable surroundings for tornadic storms will probably be throughout Virginia and North Carolina on Friday, however a couple of rotating storms might happen in Maryland by later Friday night because the remnants of Nicole bypass the state to the west.

The storm will shortly transfer east by Saturday morning with colder temperatures filtering in by way of the day. The excessive temperature will doubtless happen at midnight then fall by way of the day. 

Temps by Saturday evening will dip into the higher 30s. Highs Sunday will not get out of the 40s for a lot of areas. 

The coldest temps of the season areawide will happen Sunday and Monday evening with many areas dropping into the 20s and 30s with a freeze doubtless. 

We’ll stay within the 40s for highs into Monday and Tuesday with rising clouds and an opportunity for showers by Tuesday evening.

Rain will transfer out Wednesday morning with one other storm system approaching late subsequent week with extra rain by Friday.