Friday was cloudy with rain developing in the afternoon and evening with cooler max temps (low 70s) than Thursday with lows also lower (upper 50s), with the high for the day reached at the very start of the observation day and the low reached 24 hours later. The winds were relatively light from the E direction. Barometric pressures were highest at the very beginning of the day and dropped steadily much of the day to the lowest value of the day in the early evening. Rain was heaviest in the evening hours.

Saturday and Sunday look to be equally gloomy with even cooler temps only maxing out in the 50s to at most 60, and lows in the upper 40s to around 50 before moderating up to the 70s and 50s for Memorial Day into Tuesday.

Statistics for Friday:

High temp 72.6 at 0000

Low temp 58.5 at 2359

Max humidity 94% at 2042

Min humidity 53% at 0247

Max dew point 63 at 1505

Min dew point 52 at 0035

Max barometric pressure 30.02″ at 0057

Low barometric pressure 29.73″ at 1852

Peak Wind Gust (PWG) 14 MPH from the E at 0924

Friday’s average daily wind speed 12.8 (BWI) 8.1 (IAD)

Friday’s average sky cover 0.9 (BWI) 0.9 (IAD)

Total precipitation 0.86″

Monthly May total precipitation 1.80″

Year-to-date total precipitation 12.70″

Sunrise 0546 (EDT)

Sunset 2027 (EDT)

Moon Waning Gibbous

Currently at 0502 AM EDT Saturday cloudy skies, light rain with a temperature of 52.0, barometer 29.79″ and steady, relative humidity 94%, dew point 50 , winds E-SE at around 10 MPH. 0.14″ of 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 bit over a week ago (last Sunday evening) looking west past my cocorahs 4-inch rain gauge through the generally cloudy, dry skies at the time.