Good-bye Fall, Welcome Chill

It snowed in October. November was unseasonably warm.  It’s time to face reality.

All indications are pointing to actual normal seasonal weather in December in the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore suburbs.

Temperatures will drop just above freezing Wednesday night and west winds during the day could whip as fast as 15 mph. 

Highs will be in the 50s all week, and the chance of showers in the colder weather starts Monday, Dec. 5.

This comes after a warm November when there were four days with temperatures more than 70 degrees in the region, netting 62 degrees as the average high temperature.

That’s the warmest November since 2001, when the average high was 63, according to weatherunderground.com.

Justin Berk, a meteorologist with ABC2 WMAR-TV, said on his Facebook page that snow on Dec. 5 was a common occurrence in the Baltimore region, which experienced it on that day most years since 2002.

It looks like the trend won't hold this year.

Chris Vaccaro, a spokesman with the National Weather Service, said precipitation next week will most likely be in the "liquid form, not in the solid snowflake form."

"Temperatures are too mild for snowfall in the next seven days," he said.

Overall, experts are predicting a milder winter in the East, according to the Capital Weather Gang blog on The Washington Post.

“I think the winter starts off overall mild in the East and the better chance of more persistent cold is later in the winter,” predicted Judah Cohen, a principal scientist at Atmospheric and Environmental Research, in the blog.