Once again I am using my cocorahs report just posted on the cocorahs website to post a brief report here. Precipitation totals throughout the Maryland region varies wildly – I just heard that BWI airport has about 11 inches of rain so far this month, which will establish a new July record for the station. Rain still falling, and will do so today and tomorrow (at least). We might get a dry break late in the week but by late Sunday the rains should resume as it looks now.

Station Number: MD-MG-115
Station Name: Rockville 2.8 WNW
Observation Date 7/23/2018 11:59 PM
Submitted 7/24/2018 9:09 AM
Total Precip Amount  0.95 in.

Notes
High temp 82.1 @ 1604

Low temp 71.5 @ 0000

Midnight obs – cloudy, warm, muggy, Temp 75.0 Dew point 73.9

During the day on Monday, a few waves of showers and embedded thundershowers with dry periods in between. Warmer and muggy, dew point temps ranged from a low of 70 @ 0000 up to a high of 75 @ 0629.

Persistent S to SE flow bringing up copious moisture from the sub-tropics of the SE US and the Bahamas.

Monthly total precipitation is now 6.33″ through midnight Monday night,
Year-to-date total is now 28.60″

Duration Information

Heavy Precip Began 1:00 AM
Heavy Precip Lasted 1 Hours, 0 Minutes
Duration Time Accuracy Approximate

One of the by-products of all this rain is the creation of sinkholes. Two roads in my county (Montgomery) are closed till road repairs can be made so safe driving can resume. Today’s featured image shows the latest one, along Game Preserve Road in Gaithersburg, within one walking mile of where I used to live. Other images shown below are from Father Hurley Blvd in Germantown, probably about 5 miles from where I used to live and 10 miles from where I live now. This road is a much busier one than the other one and adversely affects many commuters and local residents. Two part story posted below.