Finally Friday was the day that Hurricane Dorian paid our area a visit, albeit quite a mild one. Clouds from the outermost bands of Dorian kept us cool and breezy through mid-afternoon, then as it moved off to the NE skies brightened and the sun warmed us up into the mid 70s by late afternoon. No rain fell, rain bands only got as far as southern Maryland from what I saw, and stormy conditions in the state was really confined to the Maryland beach area with high surf and stiff NE winds blowing the rain around quite a bit at times. High temps held in the 70s till evening, when temps dropped to the mid 60s for the day’s low by midnight observation time under clear skies. Dew point temps once again did not range very much all day, with low 60s at the start of the day dropping to the upper 50s by a bit later in the morning just after sunrise. Dew point temps then changed little the rest of the day, rising to around 60 by late evening.  

The maximum temperature was 74.5 degrees at 1721. 

The minimum temperature was 64.0 degrees at 2354. (AM Min 65.5 degrees at 0755)

The dew point temperatures ranged from a high of 63 degrees @ 0017 down to a low of 58 degrees @ 0734.

The relative humidity values ranged from a low of 59% @ 1707 up to a high of 87% @ 2342.

The barometric pressure ranged from a high of 29.97 inches @ 0000 down to a low of 29.77 inches @ 1605.

There was no precipitation on Friday so the monthly total remains at 0.39 inches. The year-to-date total is 38.05 inches.

My current online data (except for rainfall/snowfall so please use the cocorahs link shown below) 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 and can be found on the web at 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 on most days 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.

I got started fairly early for me, with phone calls about the evening’s rummikub game and from Ray expressing his disappointment about the limited amount of weather products coming out of the Sterling forecast office about Dorian during the day.  I made a fancier late breakfast of turkey sausage, eggs, cheese and mushrooms heated together in the microwave and placed into a toasted everything bagel sandwich that was really yummy and quite filling. I cleaned up in the kitchen a bit and had a pot of coffee. We had two full tables of players for the weekly rummikub game, and played for a good two hours. Hurricane Dorian coverage on the Weather Channel finally wound down and by evening had evolved into their usual boring repeated featured programs on tape once again. I had to throw out the remaining greens that had really gotten limp and tired, and just had a few sandwiches once again featuring pickles with the salami and cheese, and tomatoes on a wrap with seafood salad. I also had my usual swigs of spicy low sodium V8 juice to help wash it all down. I caught a bit of some Friday night college football action but mostly watched baseball, including an unfortunate 6-1 loss by the Yankees up in Boston. As a final post mortem on Dorian, it appears that it will make its last gasp by coming very close if not crossing over the Canadian Maritimes, including Nova Scotia and Newfoundland on its way out the North Atlantic graveyard for hurricanes. 

Saturday and Sunday should be mostly sunny and a bit warmer, with highs in the low 80s and lows around 60.

Monday and Tuesday should be partly cloudy and seasonable with highs in the low 80s and lows in the low-mid 60s.

Wednesday and Thursday should be partly cloudy and warming back up again into the upper 80s, lows in the mid-upper 60s. 

It does look like a mostly dry week. 

On Midnight Friday the temperature was 64.0 degrees, relative humidity 87%, pressure rising at 29.83 inches with the dew point temperature at 60 degrees under clear skies.

Currently at 0606 Saturday morning the temperature is 59.1 degrees under clear skies, relative humidity at 91%, barometric pressure rising at 29.86 inches, and the dew point temperature at 57 degrees.

Good early morning from the walrus on this clear Saturday. Today’s featured image is another one taken just prior to my trivia game at 1900 EDT early Thursday evening, looking in a south by westerly direction showing the initial cloud formations advancing in from the outermost bands of circulation from advancing hurricane Dorian.