With the clouds burning off early around Baltimore today, we may have a shot at beating the record-high temperature for an Oct. 8 in Baltimore. The record is a relatively easy one for the first half of October, just 88 degrees, set in downtown Baltimore in 1931. The forecast calls for mostly sunny skies after the fog burns off, and a high of 85 degrees. I'm betting we'll bust the record.

The 88-degree mark is, after all, the coolest record high for Baltimore in the first (nearly) two weeks of October. On the other  hand, it's still a full 18 degrees above the long-term average high for this time of year.

The early-autumn heat won't last much longer. We'll have one more hot day on Tuesday - pushing 90 again. But the high-pressure system will finally move off the coast and a cold front now in the Midwest will move across the state late Tuesday. That may bring us a bit of rain, but not much. There's a 50 percent of thunderstorms on Tuesday night. It's now been 23 days since the last measureable rain at BWI. The record is 32.

Behind the front they're looking for cooler weather on Wednesday, with highs around 80 degrees - still 10 degrees above normal. But that's it. From Thursday well into next week we're looking for highs in the 60s, and lows in the 40s. That's a few degrees below normal, for a change. We haven't had a below-average-temperature day at BWI since Sept. 20.

For the record, tomorrow is the 104th anniversary of the earliest snowfall on record for Baltimore - a trace on Oct. 8, 1903. Guess we won't break THAT record this year.