Wednesday warmed up a lot under quite a bit of sunny conditions, starting the drying process after a good bit of rain the past several days. Today’s featured image is a view of the fully-leafed out garden in my apartment complex from Tuesday evening’s mini-photo session. No rain today, temperatures rose from chilly mid 40s in the early AM to the low 70s by mid-afternoon in the bright sunlight. 

The maximum temperature was 71.6° at 1439.

The minimum temperature was 44.3° at 0601.

The dew point temperatures ranged from a low of 42° @ 0314 up to a high of 51° @ 1235.

The relative humidity values ranged from a high of 92% @ 0714 down to a low of 37% @ 1552.

The barometric pressure ranged from a high of 30.01″ @ 0900 down to a low of 29.90″ @ 1851.

There was no precipitation falling on Wednesday. May has a total rainfall of 4.66″. The year-to-date total is 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.

Thursday should be milder, with highs in the mid 70s and lows in the mid 50s under partly sunny skies.

Friday looks to be mostly cloudy and warmer but dry, with highs in the low 80s and lows in the low 60s.

Saturday should be partly to mostly cloudy and a bit warmer with highs in the mid 80s and lows in the mid 60s. 

Sunday should be partly cloudy and quite warm, with highs in the upper 80s and lows in the upper 60s.

Monday should have highs in the mid 80s with quite a bit of clouds and good chances for showers and thundershowers, with lows reached late in the day around 60° after the front clears out. 

Midnight Wednesday recorded a temperature of 56.9°, relative humidity 72%, pressure falling at 29.94″and a dew point temperature of 48° under clear skies.

Currently at 0509 the temperature is 53.0° under mostly cloudy skies, relative humidity at 82%, barometric pressure steady at 29.91″, and the dew point at 48°.

Good early morning from the walrus on this drying out Thursday.