Mostly cloudy, mild, breezy early AM then cooler and drier update from West Rockville Maryland for Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Tuesday started out cloudy, and mild, but then in the mid AM winds picked up from the North and started to gradually cool us off, though high clouds remained through a partly sunny sky all day. High temps recorded at midnight in the mid 60s then cooled to the daily min in the low 50s by mid AM. Temps held steady the rest of the day in the low-mid 50s. Dew point temperatures topped out in the upper 50s at midnight, then dropped to 40° by the early afternoon.
Tuesday’s max temperature was 63.6° at 0000.
Monday’s min temperature was 51.5° at 0816.
Dew point temperatures ranged from a high of 59° @ 0000 down to a low of 40° @ 1351.
Relative humidity values ranged from a low of 55% @ 1352 up to a high of 87% @ 2346.
Barometric pressure ranged from a low of 30.05″ @ 0003 up to a high of 30.25″ @ 1049
You can get my VP2 data on Weatherlink. I have migrated over to Weatherlink 2.0 so I have a new link for my data. You can now access the data through:
https://www.weatherlink.com/map/5aa32916-94c7-4a40-a2d0-0b74abfc8d8f
I am posting daily to weather underground. My ID is KMDROCKV200 and my station is called “Gardens of Traville.” Data is online, normally just about in real-time. The web address for my data on weather underground is: https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMDROCKV200
I contribute daily to CoCoRaHS as Rockville 2.8 WNW, Station ID MD-MG-115 on https://www.cocorahs.org/
Please remember that Weather Underground precipitation data reflects what is recorded automatically through the tipping bucket VP2 gauge. I actually use the data I post to CoCoRaHS from my 4″ CoCoRaHS gauge I read manually as my “official” precipitation total each day.
Tuesday had 0.00″ of rain. October 2018 has had 1.28″ of rainfall at my location with my year-to-date precipitation at 49.70″.
Overnight Monday into Tuesday was cloudy, mild and turning breezy by morning.
Through the day we had a bit of sun at times through a high level thin altostratus/cirrostratus overcast with AM breezes with temperatures dropping to the low 50s just after sunrise and holding there mostly all day. Dew points dropped from the upper 50s at midnight down to 40° by early afternoon, then rising some in the evening.
Wednesday should be partly cloudy with highs in the mid 60s and lows around 40°.
Thursday should be sunny and cooler, with highs in the upper-low 50s and lows in the mid 30s with perhaps some scattered areas of frost in some rural areas outside the major cities.
Friday should be mostly sunny with high temps around 60° and lows warming up Sat AM to around 50°.
Saturday should be cloudy with highs in the low 60s and lows in the low 40s.
Sunday looks partly cloudy and cooler once again, with highs around 50° and lows in the mid 30s with more potential chances for frost out here in the suburbs.
Currently at 0430 the temperature is 50.6°, dew point temperature 49°, relative humidity 94%, and barometric pressure at 30.08″ and falling.
Currently the sky is partly cloudy.
Good morning from the Walrus early on this Wednesday. Another picture of my rain gauge is the featured image today from Tuesday morning’s visit. I actually posted my 0700 NJWO Tuesday observation to NJWO through my IPhone there at the gauge.
Kevin
2 thoughts on “Mostly cloudy, mild, breezy early AM then cooler and drier update from West Rockville Maryland for Tuesday, October 16, 2018”
Kevin, aren’t our gauges supposed to be 4 ft off the ground and 20 ft from the nearest tree or building?
Hi Cathie,
The picture provides a poor angle for judging the elevation of the rain gauge. Actually the top of the gauge should be 4 feet, not the bottom. And mine is. As to being at least 20 feet from the nearest tree or building – it is more than 20 feet from the nearest building but small trees are closer than 20 feet to the gauge. In apartment living that I am under now I can only do so much, I try to make the best of the locations for the gauge that I have available to me. Last year when I first set my gauge up in April 2017 I had it on the apartment grounds. I found that during the warmer months the apartment maintenance team was running a sprinkler in the middle of the night and fouling up my rain gauge catch. The gauge was also closer to the apartment high rise buildings (4 stories) And I had bigger trees near the gauge that were taller than the ones at its current location. The rain gauge is actually better “sited” where it is than where I have my Davis VP2 weather station installed. I have much more major issues with that setup. If you want to hear about them, just let me know and I will write about it in a few days. I also have plenty of pictures to document my unique siting problems. Thanks, Kevin