We can look forward to another delightfully pleasant day today as high pressure, clear skies and abundant sunshine again drive temperatures in Baltimore to the 80-degree mark. And if skies remain clear into this evening, we can enjoy a full Hunter's Moon as it rises in the east around 5:06 p.m.

Temperatures reached 80 degrees yesterday at BWI. It was 80 here at The Sun, too. The airport reading was the first daytime high to reach 80 degrees since Sept. 21. The record for Baltimore on an Oct. 14 is 86 degrees, set back in 1975.

The mild weather and sunshine should carry over into Wednesday, but an approaching cold front promises increasing clouds for Wednesday night, and a chance for showers on Thursday. Once the front passes, daytime temperatures will drop off sharply. Friday will remain cloudy and cooler, in the 60s. And depending on how things develop, we could see a continuing risk of showers Friday into Saturday, forecasters say.

A return of sunshine for the  weekend won't help the temperatures much, with highs only in the low 60s - some 20 degrees cooler than today. Overnight lows will sink into the low 40s and it will begin to feel more like a real October.

With luck tonight, we'll have skies clear enough to reveal the Hunter's Moon, named for the added light it afforded our ancestors as they stalked the game they needed to fatten up for the long winter ahead. Some also called this the Frosty Moon, or the Beaver Moon, a nod to the deepening cold and the critters' busy preparations for winter.

Clear, dry skies are also giving us new opportunities to observe Jupiter, still high and bright in the southern sky after sunset, and Venus, now an easy target in the southwest at the same time.