This is it, boys and girls. The day we've been waiting for all winter. Blue skies, afternoon temperatures well into the 70s, with a chance to reach 80 in some spots.

This not not record-setting weather, although it is unusually warm for this time of year. The normal high for an April 6 in Baltimore is 61 degrees, so today's predicted 75-degree high at BWI would be 14 degrees above normal. But the record, set in 1929, is 90 degrees. We won't go there.

If we make it to 75, it will be the warmest day we've seen since Halloween, when the mercury topped out at 76 degrees. The record low for this day, by the way, is 26 degrees, set in 1878.

Tomorrow will be nearly as warm, at 72. But rain and even thunderstorms are possible as a storm approaches from the south and west, and Friday will be rainy again, and cool, with a high around 58. Happily, the weekend looks great - sunny, with seasonable highs near 60 degrees. Enjoy.