Scattered rain and storms were moving through Maryland on Friday afternoon as temperatures climbed into the 70s and lower 80s, with the heaviest activity expected between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. and scattered showers and storms likely to keep developing until around sunset.
The timing leaves the Orioles' 7:05 p.m. game exposed to a late soak. Brief delays before 8 p.m. could not be ruled out, and a few storms may bring brief heavy rain, small hail and frequent lightning. For anyone heading downtown, the worst of it is expected to arrive during the same window that usually brings the most traffic, the most pedestrians and the least patience for a slow-moving storm.
The broader pattern turns quickly after Friday. Saturday is expected to start mainly dry, cloudy, breezy and cool before rain becomes widespread in the afternoon, with the wettest stretch after 2 p.m. as temperatures fall into the 50s. Sunday should be unsettled early, with showers tapering off around sunrise and clouds lingering into part of the afternoon, when temperatures are expected to sit in the upper 50s and lower 60s.
After that, the pause is brief. Rain chances are expected to hold off Sunday afternoon through Monday, when sunshine should return and temperatures should reach the mid to upper 60s. Another round of much needed rain may build late Tuesday into Wednesday, extending a spring pattern that has already swung from Friday warmth to a cooler, gloomier weekend in Maryland.
