Monday cooled down even further as clouds continued to hold fast under persistent NE winds. Mostly morning periods of light rain (0.55″) fell today with only a bit of light rain and drizzle in the evening hours much like on Sunday. Temps only reached highs in the mid 50s in the late afternoon/early evening with lows in the mid 40s in the early morning hours.

The maximum temperature was 55.0° at 1812.

The minimum temperature was 46.6° at 0324.

The dew point temperatures ranged from a low of 45° @ 0313 up to a high of 52° @ 1625.

The relative humidity values ranged from a high of 96% @ 0510 down to a low of 88% @ 1850.

The barometric pressure ranged from a low of 29.78″ @ 1600 up to a high of 29.87″ @ 2316.

There was 0.55″ of precipitation falling on Monday. May now has a total rainfall of 4.66″. The year-to-date total is now 18.71″.

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.

Tuesday has been mostly cloudy most of the AM and early PM, but late in the afternoon clouds started to break and the sun actually came out. The day was actually dry.  Temperatures remained cool, with high temps in the upper 50s and lows in the mid 40s.

Wednesday and Thursday should be not as cool, with highs in the low-mid 70s and lows in the low-mid 50s under mostly sunny skies on Wednesday and partly cloudy skies on Thursday. We should start to dry out our saturated grounds. 

Friday and Saturday looks a warmer with highs in the upper 70s to around 80° with lows in the lower 60s under partly cloudy skies with increasing chances for showers and thundershowers returning.

Sunday looks a bit cooler with partly to mostly cloudy, dry skies, highs in the low 70s and lows around 60°. 

Midnight Monday recorded a temperature of 50.1°, relative humidity 94%, pressure steady at 29.87″and a dew point temperature of 48.4° under cloudy skies.

Currently at 2251 the temperature is 49.7° under clear skies, relative humidity at 82%, barometric pressure rising at 29.97″, and the dew point at 44°.

Good late evening from the walrus on this drying out Tuesday evening. As a sneak peak to our improving conditions, today’s featured image was taken just after sunset this Tuesday evening from my balcony. The cloud was the last of the clouds for the day, beating a retreat after the sun had just set for the day.