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The mercury at Baltimore-Washington International Airport dropped to 52 degrees early this morning. It's no record. The low mark for a Sept. 8 in Baltimore is 46 degrees, set back in 1962. But it's the coolest it's been at the airport since June 20, and a harbinger of what's ahead.
It was colder elsewhere. The instrument on my back deck in Cockeysville read 48 this morning. It was 45 in Frederick and 47 in Martinsburg, W. Va.
Frank Roylance is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. He came to Baltimore from New Bedford, Mass. in 1980 to join the old Evening Sun. He moved to the morning Sun when the papers merged in 1992, and has spent most of his time since covering science, including astronomy and the weather. One of The Baltimore Sun's first online Web logs, the Weather Blog debuted in October 2004. In June 2006 Frank also began writing comments on local weather and stargazing for The Baltimore Sun's print Weather Page.
