Saturday was a partly sunny, dry day, a tad cooler, still moderately humid (a bit more than yesterday).  High temperatures reached the lower mid 80s by mid-afternoon after a not as cool early AM with mins in the mid 60s. Dew point temperatures were in the 60s all day, higher in the mid-afternoon and lower in the late evening up to midnight observation time.

The maximum temperature was 83.2 degrees at 1436.

The minimum temperature was 66.3 degrees at 0530.

The dew point temperatures ranged from a high of 68 degrees @ 1520 down to a low of 62 degrees @ 2320.

The relative humidity values ranged from a high of 90% @ 0535 down to a low of 57% @ 1535.

The barometric pressure ranged from a low of 30.11 inches @ 0000 up to a high of 30.25 inches @ 2300, almost 24 hours later. It was not a steady rise all day, most of the rise was in the AM, leveling off in the afternoon before rising a bit more in the evening.

There was no precipitation on Saturday so the August total rainfall wound up at 7.63 inches, which is what I predicted it would wind up as for a final figure for the entire month.  The year-to-date total is still 37.66 inches as we enter into 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 once again, finally arising in the afternoon to catch much of the college football action on several stations, with somewhat of a focus on the Big Ten games and also the Oregon-Auburn tussle, the game with the highest rated teams playing each other. It was a good game, with Oregon taking the early lead 21-6 but Auburn coming back in the second half to win 27-21 at a neutral field in Arlington TX. I had some jambalaya soup from Safeway for my culinary start for the day in the early evening, then much later I ate the rest of the supreme pizza from Friday, after agonizing over what I should have. Less to decide on, I got to get my inventory restocked soon. I followed the continued strengthening track and power of Hurricane Dorian, with continued coverage on the Weather Channel and local news media outlets and of course the internet.  

Sunday has had a mostly cloudy sky so far, but dry. Highs look to top out around the 80 mark, after a mild  mid 60s AM. Labor Day Monday looks to have partly cloudy skies with highs in the mid 80s and a chance for showers and thunderstorms, lows in the mid 60s. 

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

At this point Thursday looks mostly cloudy and much cooler, with highs around 70 and lows in the upper 50s with a good chance of rain showers.

Friday should be drying out with partly cloudy skies, remaining relatively cool with highs in the lower mid 70s and lows in the mid 50s. 

Hurricane Dorian is still looming big-time, well to the south, strengthening today to an incredible Category 5 storm, as it made landfall earlier on Sunday in the Northern Bahamas. It has slowed down its forward speed and will be gradually turning northward, and now is predicted to stay just offshore of the Florida coast then possibly make landfall somewhere in the Carolinas later in the 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 Saturday recorded a temperature of 72.8 degrees, relative humidity 69%, pressure rising at 30.25 inches and the dew point temperature at 62 degrees under partly cloudy skies.

Currently at 1447 Sunday afternoon the temperature is 78.9 degrees under mostly cloudy skies (mostly mid-level stratocumulus with the sun breaking through occasionally), relative humidity at 72%, barometric pressure falling at 30.22 inches, and the dew point temperature at 69 degrees.

Good afternoon from the walrus on this mostly cloudy Sunday.