Welcome to October at the beach and boardwalk! Update: 3:50 p.m. Friday. The expected sunshine has arrived. It was windy through the night in Ocean City, and we finally got some of that heavy rain. The precip ended early Friday morning, but it’s been continued cloudy and seasonably cool so far on Friday. The Western… [Read more…]
September 30, 2010
October in Ocean City: First Oct. Weekend: Winefest On The Beach. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 1 and 2, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., at the Inlet Parking Lot. Second Oct. Weekend: Oktoberfest. Third Oct. Weekend: Free State Corvette Weekend. It’s been raining and pouring in D.C. and Baltimore this Thursday morning, the TV reports. Amazingly,… [Read more…]
September 24, 2010
Thursday night on the Boardwalk was warm and humid. The sound of the Hubcaps drifted out of the big tent on the Inlet Parking Lot. It may be fall, but it feels like summer today in Ocean City, Maryland. High temperature Friday, 90 degrees. High on Saturday, 85. Yes, we’ve got sun for Sunfest. Rain?… [Read more…]
July 28, 2010
This is the week Ocean City, Maryland, businesses have been waiting for . . . for the last three summers. A banner weekend, probably more people than July 4 weekend. Saturday was the hottest day of the summer (I hope we don’t get any more 110-degree heat index days), and the moon was full in a… [Read more…]
July 23, 2010
Code Red Heat Alert in Baltimore City for Friday and Saturday. Cooling centers are open in the city. Call 311 for locations. Temperatures 95+ on Friday. 100+ on Saturday. Highs of 103-106 possible on Saturday. Oppressively high humidity. Heat index temps 95 to 105 on Friday, and up to 110 on Saturday. That’s right, the… [Read more…]
July 19, 2010
And on . . . and on . . . and on . . . See Frank’s Weather Blog. Pass the ice water, and the Gatoraide, and please help your elderly neighbors.
July 7, 2010
We’re cooking in another heat wave, hotter than the last one. A distinct haze is in the air, along with the temperature. Ozone. Don’t tell me how hot it is. I don’t want to know. I’m sorry to say there was an accident in the surf in front of my workplace today. Police and ambulance… [Read more…]
June 23, 2010
Baltimore has announced a CODE RED heat alert for today, Wednesday, June 23, and Thursday, June 24, with high temperatures in the 90s. Heat index near 100 today in Baltimore, and 100 to 105 on Thursday. Heat throughout Maryland will be dangerously hot and humid. Would you believe 96 in Hancock, in Western Maryland? Baltimore… [Read more…]
May 28, 2010
Once again, the Ocean City weather is outperforming the forecast this Friday a.m., first day of Memorial Day weekend. It’s been beautiful and sunny all morning, but cooler than yesterday, after that New England front passed through last night. We had quite a show of flash lightening around midnight. Very little thunder. Possibility of scattered… [Read more…]
April 30, 2010
In Ocean City, we could use a little bit of May, right this very minute. And we are going to get what we want this weekend. A taste of summer on the first weekend of May in Ocean City. Today, Friday, is beautiful, around 70 at noon, going up to 74 or 75 this afternoon.… [Read more…]
October 1, 2010
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