Friday was a mostly sunny, dry day, warmer, moderately humid as yesterday, but still relatively pleasant. High temperatures reached the mid 80s by mid-afternoon after a cool early AM with mins in the upper 50s, officially my first and probably only day in August as such (using rounded values). Dew point temperatures were in the mid-upper 50s in much of the morning, but rose into the mid 60s by mid-day and stayed there the rest of the day up to midnight observation time.

The maximum temperature was 85.5 degrees at 1525.

The minimum temperature was 59.4 degrees at 0629.

The dew point temperatures ranged from a low of 57 degrees @ 0629 up to a high of 67 degrees @ 1829.

The relative humidity values ranged from a high of 95% @ 0814 down to a low of 48% @ 1431.

The barometric pressure ranged from a low of 30.03 inches @ 1802 up to a high of 30.12 inches @ 2353.

There was no precipitation on Friday so the August total rainfall is 7.63 inches and the odds look really good now that the monthly total will stay that way for the final August value. The year-to-date total looks to stay at 37.66 inches into early September.

My current online data (except for rainfall/snowfall so please use the cocorahs link shown below) 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, available in real-time 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 and can be found on the web at 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 every day of late so should not be used except for general precipitation timing. (for example, it recorded 2.15 inches of rain early this month (Sunday 8/4), with a 16.94 inch an hour rain rate at 0021 very early on that day that was way over what actually
occurred.)

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.

I rested a good while on Friday well into the afternoon then had a late breakfast of the usual cereal, milk, bananas and coffee. I missed the weekly early Friday evening rummikub game since my beloved Wisconsin Badgers opened their 2019 season with a game against South Florida, away in Tampa FL. I could have actually gone to my game, as the start of the game was delayed by thunderstorms/lightning danger as they often do these days when warranted. The 7 PM start was delayed by about an hour. Much improved localized radar really have stepped up these real time delays due to lightning nowadays. The Badgers took care of business nicely, winning the game 49-0, scoring well and often. I cooked up a Schwan’s supreme pizza that I added mushrooms to for my dinner during the game, along with 2 double dog IPA beers to wash down the pizza half I consumed in the mid-evening. I watched some other football games as the start of the season always comes big time over Labor Day weekend, after the NFL finished their preseason games earlier in the week.  

A good part of Labor Day weekend (Saturday and Monday) should be mostly to partly sunny, with highs in the mid 80s and lows in the mid 60s and dry.

Sunday should have more clouds than sun with chances of showers and perhaps even a thunderstorm, with highs in the low 80s and lows in the mid 60s.

Tuesday through Wednesday should stay sunny to partly cloudy, with temps warming up in the upper 80s to around 90 but lows still in the somewhat comfortable mid-upper 60s.

At this point Thursday looks partly to mostly cloudy and much cooler, with highs in the low 70s and lows in the mid 50s but that will depend on the track of Dorian which might be headed up the East Coast late in the week. 

Hurricane Dorian still is looming well to the south, strengthening now to a Category 4 storm, tracking a bit differently now with models predicting it to start curving northward and slowing its forward progress, hugging the coast more and perhaps not coming inland with its full fury early to middle of next week. Still too far in the future to tell what, if any, affect the storm may have on our area, but I will be watching it closely in the days ahead to see where it tracks and how strong it gets.

Midnight Friday recorded a temperature of 70.5 degrees, relative humidity 80%, pressure rising at 30.11 inches and the dew point temperature at 64.0 degrees under mostly clear skies.

Currently at 0749 Saturday morning the temperature is 69.6 degrees under mostly sunny skies (just a few scattered high clouds covering a small portion of the current sky), relative humidity at 85%, barometric pressure rising at 30.20 
inches, and the dew point temperature at 65 degrees.

Good morning from the walrus on this mostly clear early Saturday. Today’s attached image is a rerun of yesterday’s image, looking W from outside Building A where Thursday’s trivia game was at about 1855 EDT.