🌤️ Delmarva Afternoon Update — 2026-05-28
What's Changed Since This Morning: Quiet stays quiet. No new alerts, no SPC risk changes, and no convective initiation across the peninsula this afternoon. The latest AFD from Mount Holly and Wakefield continues to emphasize a benign stretch of weather with dry air in place and a reinforcing shot of drier air heading into the weekend.
Current Severe Weather Picture: SPC has Delmarva outside any organized severe risk for both Day 1 and Day 2 — no Marginal, no Slight, nothing categorical on the board. Surface winds are out of the northwest and north at 5–16 mph, which is reinforcing the dry low-level airmass rather than setting up any storm mode. Fire weather remains the more relevant concern given the dry air aloft and at the surface, per the AFD.
Active Watches & Warnings:
- No active Delmarva watches or warnings at this time.
Through Tonight: Sunshine carries through the evening with highs already topping out — Lewes at 82°F, Salisbury at 81°F, Cambridge and Georgetown near 79°F, Wilmington and Dover at 78°F, Chincoteague 77°F, and a cooler 73°F at the Ocean City beach thanks to the onshore-component north wind. Skies stay mostly clear overnight as winds gradually relax.
Bottom Line: A textbook quiet late-May afternoon across Delmarva with no severe threat and no alerts in play.
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