Sunday was mostly cloudy with a bit cooler max temps (around 70) than Saturday with lows a bit milder due to the greater cloud cover (50), reached at fairly normal times during the 24 hour day. The winds picked up some from the W direction, bringing in light afternoon showers. Pressures continued moderately high, somewhat similar to Saturday.

Monday looks to be partly cloudy and mild with highs in the low 70s and lows around 50 .

Thereafter the rest of the week looks to be heating up under partly to mostly sunny skies with max temps starting out around 80 on Tuesday warming up to the upper 80s to around 90 by Thursday and Friday with lows in the mid-upper 50s to start the week to the upper 60s by week’s end.

Statistics for Sunday:

High temp 70.4 at 1248

Low temp 50.0 at 0542

Max humidity 88% at 1614

Min humidity 44% at 1310

Max dew point 57 at 1614

Min dew point 43 at 0000

Max barometric pressure 30.30″ at 0932

Low barometric pressure 30.24″ at 0001

Peak Wind Gust (PWG) 25 MPH from the W at 1423

Today’s average daily wind speed 3.6 (BWI) 4.5 (IAD)

Today’s average sky cover 0.8 (BWI) 0.7 (IAD)

Sunday total precipitation 0.04″

Monthly May total precipitation 0.94″

Year-to-date total precipitation 11.84″

Sunrise 0554 (EDT)

Sunset 2016 (EDT)

Moon Waxing Crescent

Currently at 0639 AM EDT Monday sunny skies with a light thin cirrus overcast with the temperature at 50.8, barometer 30.30″ and steady, relative humidity 93% , dew point 49 , winds E-NE at less than 5 MPH. No rain has fallen since midnight into the tipping bucket VP2 gauge at the USG site across the street from me.

Today’s feature image was one taken around sunset a week ago (last Sunday evening) looking west past my cocorahs 4-inch rain gauge through the generally cloudy, dry skies at the time showing a green groundcover.