Sunday was mostly sunny, pleasantly cooler in the early AM, warming up in the afternoon. Temperatures rose from the upper 50s in the early AM to the mid 80s in the mid-late afternoon hours, then fell back to around 70° by late evening. Dew point temperatures remained in the 50s most of the day, briefly rising to 60° in the mid afternoon.

The maximum temperature was 84.0 degrees at 1618.

The minimum temperature was 58.8 degrees at 0615.

The dew point temperatures ranged from a low of 51 degrees @ 1022 up to a high of 60 degrees @ 1614.

The relative humidity values ranged from a high of 84% @ 0603 down to a low of 38% @ 1442.

The barometric pressure ranged from a high of 30.12 inches @ 0826 down to a low of 29.95 inches @ 2353.

There was no precipitation on Sunday. There has been 2.12 inches of rain recorded so far in June. The year-to-date total is 22.41 inches.

My current online data (except for rainfall/snowfall – use the cocorahs link shown below for that dataset) is showing regularly on Weather Underground. My data is posted there every 5 minutes. My ID is KMDROCKV200 and my station is called “Gardens of Traville.” Data is online, available in real-time as it is being updated on a 5 minute interval. The web address for my data on weather underground is: https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMDROCKV200

I contribute my precipitation data daily to CoCoRaHS as Rockville 2.8 WNW, Station ID MD-MG-115 on https://www.cocorahs.org/

Please remember that my Weather Underground precipitation data reflects what is recorded automatically through the tipping bucket VP2 gauge, just as it does on WxLink 2.0. The tipping bucket has been producing erratic values every day of late so should not be used except for general precipitation timing.

I actually use the data I post to CoCoRaHS from my 4 inch CoCoRaHS gauge I read manually as my “official” precipitation total each day.

Sunday was a nice social day in the afternoon and evening. I had a turkey bologna sandwich for brunch along with coffee after a shower but before my long-time weather friends Rick Schwartz and Peter Gajary came over for a visit to see my apartment, and to go out to dinner at the very closeby Nantucket Reef Seafood restaurant within close walking distance in the early evening. We looked over many of Rick’s photo archive of historic hurricane pictures, which he is using some of in his upcoming book on the hurricanes of the SE United States. After my guests left I eventually finished up my NJWO Weathershelter climate summary for May and emailed it off to the editor, Bob Ziff and also posted it to the NJWO Blog and a few friends. The summary will be appearing here on this blog in the next day or so. 

Monday should be partly cloudy and warmer/more humid with a 50% chance for showers and possibly severe thunderstorms in the mid afternoon to early evening, with high temps around 90° and lows around 70°. 

Tuesday through Friday will be sunny to partly sunny, quite warm to hot and increasingly humid but mostly dry, with highs around 90° early in the week up into the low-mid 90s towards the end of the week with lows in the upper 60s. to lower 70s. So it appears that June will finish out with a bit of a heat wave.

Midnight Sunday recorded a temperature of 70.2°, relative humidity 69%, pressure falling at 29.95 inches and a dew point temperature of 59.6° under partly cloudy skies.

Currently at 1058 the temperature is 81.6° under partly sunny skies, relative humidity at 63%, barometric pressure steady at 29.91 inches, and a rising, more uncomfortable dew point temperature of 68°.

Good morning from the walrus on this Monday. Today’s feature image was taken just after sunset (2035 EDT) Sunday evening from a bench between buildings A and B looking west.