Cloudy, cool, damp AM then clearing, warming, and drying out PM update for Saturday, April 6, 2019 in West Rockville Maryland
Saturday was cloudy and cooler in the morning, with early AM light drizzle/sprinkles (0.01″) then clearing in the PM with sunny skies and warmer temperatures. Hight temps reached the mid 60s by late afternoon after early morning lows in the low 40s.
The maximum temperature was 65.6° at 1811.
The minimum temperature was 42.6° at 0403.
The dew point temperatures ranged from a low of 41° @ 0210 up to a high of 50° @ 1255.
The relative humidity values ranged from a high of 95% @ 0240 down to a low of 51% @ 1925.
The barometric pressure ranged from a low of 30.18″ @ 1750 up to a high of 30.26″ @ 2250.
Saturday had 0.01″ of precipitation. April now has a total of 0.17″ of precipitation. The year-to-date total is now at 11.86″.
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, normally just about in real-time now 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 at times 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.
On Sunday still more clouds than sun but warm, with high temps in the low 70s and lows in the upper 40s .
Monday looks unsettled and warmer, highs in the upper 70s and lows in the upper 50s with probable showers and thunderstorms.
Partly cloudy into Tuesday and Wednesday, with highs in the mid 70s on Tuesday and upper 50s on Wednesday and lows in the mid 40s on Tuesday and low 40s on Wednesday.
Midnight Saturday night found the temperature to be 53.3°, relative humidity 77%, pressure rising at 30.26″ and the dew point at 46.3° under partly cloudy skies.
Currently at 0716 the temperature is 52.3° under cloudy skies, relative humidity at 90%, barometric pressure rising at 30.28″, and the dew point at 50°.
Good morning from the snowless walrus on this cloudy Sunday.
With peak bloom of the famous downtown Washington DC Cherry Trees in the Tidal Basin finishing up this weekend but still going, I have another new featured image posted Friday. Today’s featured image is another picture posted on FACEBOOK by my photo-journalist weather enthusiast friend Jim Schuyler of the blooming joshino cherry
trees in downtown DC at the Tidal Basin taken later this past week. Thanks so much Jim!!!