Get your tour of the links finished and your laundry hung and dried before this afternoon. There's a new cold front creeping toward us today from the north and west. Forecasters say that means we'll see showers and some thunderstorms this afternoon and gusty winds into the evening as the heavier, dense cool air shoves aside this warm and increasingly humid air out of the way. You can see the front, and the rain, headed our way on this radar loop.

Before the front arrives we can expect the mercury to creep into the 80s again at BWI. It's already 80 here at Calvert & Centre streets. But things will cool down abruptly when the front and rains arrive after 2 p.m. Sterling is predicting between a quarter and a half-inch of rain this afternoon, and a bit more overnight. Temperatures should stick in the upper 60s tomorrow. Here's the official forecast.

Rain chances will linger into Thursday and Friday as a low-pressure center now over Michigan moves east, and another storm whips up the coast, offshore. But the weekend still looks dry, with highs pleasant in the 70s. So go ahead with those weekend plans. Headed over the big bridge? Here's the forecast for Ocean City.