I have been catching up on a lot of activities, some weather, most not, over the past several days. So sorry for my self-imposed hiatus.

Just a brief note here to highlight the first 10 days of March, with some statistics and let you know I am all right here in Maryland. It has been a relatively cold and wet start to the month, with a total of 1.66″ of precipitation falling from March 1 through March 10, and 2.5″ of snow. 1.5″ fell on March 1, 0.2″ fell on March 3, and 0.8″ fell on March 8 (see embedded image below of this snow, which fell from about noon till the early evening at a light but steady pace). Today’s featured image is from the storm on March 1, which fell in the morning, then was followed up in the late afternoon and evening with just rain (total of 0.73″ precipitation for the entire day including the melted snow). The image embedded below is from the storm on March 8, which melted off quickly early on March 9. Seven of the 10 days during the period had maximums holding in the 30s and below – with March 6 the coldest by far with temps holding below freezing (high of 28.7° and low of 18.9°). 6 days had sub-freezing minimums. The warmest day of the period was on March 10, with a high temp of 57.1° reached, but with clouds holding all day, that high temp was about 10° cooler than forecasted.

The coming week looks to be drier and warmer, with no snow or freezing temperatures forecasted for the area with only a chance of rain late in the week, late on Thursday or an 80% on Friday. Temps mild overnight Sunday night into Monday morning, with a current temperature of 47.4° @ 0614 EDT. Times from now on in my reports will be expressed in Eastern Daylight Time.