On Monday, we had sunny, drying out conditions and cooler temperatures . The highs reached the mid 60s by mid-afternoon after lows around 50 degrees in the morning then only dropped into the upper mid 50s by midnight observation time. Dew point temperatures dropped into the upper mid 40s in the morning, rising back a bit into the mid 50s by late evening. 

The maximum temperature was 66.1 degrees at 1626.

The minimum temperature was 50.5 degrees at 0744.

The dew point temperatures ranged from a low of 47 degrees @ 0713 up to a high of 54 degrees @ 2321.

The relative humidity values ranged from a high of 88% @ 0750 down to a low of 60% @ 1430.

The barometric pressure ranged from a low of 30.03 inches @ 0022 up to a high of 30.26 inches @ 2323.

The highest daily wind speed recorded across the street on the roof of the new USG building was 12 MPH that was recorded at 0025 from the N. Please remember that this anemometer is at a non-standard height of 60 feet above ground level (AGL), which can cause greater wind speeds than at the standard 33 feet AGL.

There was no precipitation on Monday so the October monthly total holds at 4.16 inches. The year-to-date total is still 42.41 inches.

My current downstairs station data is now 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 on most days (when I have had rain that is) 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.

I had a busy but frustrating day on Monday. I didn’t get much sleep due to too much activity, starting at noon when I was up finishing my Sunday wx post and trying to listen to the weather buff show on the internet from Buffalo NY. My sister’s usual weekly Monday call didn’t come till the evening, as I crashed soon after the weather show finished around 1 PM. My cleaning engineer was due to come to my apartment to do her usual clean up job, but for some unknown reason she never showed up. So I slept till early evening, and got ready for my 7-8 PM Shipt grocery delivery that turned out late, arriving about 2030. The girl bringing the groceries was on her first day, and she had a rough time, not being able to find several items on my grocery list, and having to contact me several times on text to figure out substitutions to missing items, and to finally cancel a few when they did not have any good substitutions for me. I had some cream cheese and turkey sausage on a toasted everything bagel for lunch, then leftover spaghetti and meatballs for dinner, with some new dessert items to enjoy, a toasted almond ice cream bar and a few snack sized Mounds bars (coconut and chocolate – two of my favorites). I watched some RAW wrestling but mostly watched MNF between the Steelers and Dolphins, won by Pittsburgh 24-14 or thereabouts. I talked at some length with John W about a myriad of great subjects and really did a lot of work on my Halloween trivia questions for Thursday. I got about 2/3 of the questions compiled, and had some fun with some of the questions, most but not all on October and Halloween trivia topics, found on the internet. 

Tuesday should be partly to mostly cloudy and seasonable with highs in the mid 60s and lows in the low 50s.

On Wednesday it should be cloudy and seasonably mild, with highs in the upper 60s and lows in the upper 50s.

On Thursday it looks to be cloudy with rain and possibly thundershowers with highs in the mid 70s and lows in the lower 40s as a strong cold front approaches from the W.

Friday – Sunday should be sunny and increasingly chilly, with highs in the low-mid 50s and lows in the low-mid 30s as we start off the month on a more November note, with our first freeze very possible on Sunday. 

At Midnight Monday, I observed cloudy skies with a temperature of 57.1 degrees, relative humidity 88%, pressure rising at 30.25 inches with a dew point temperature of 54 degrees. Winds were averaging 2 MPH from the E.

Currently at 0635 early Tuesday morning the temperature is 56.1 degrees under cloudy skies, relative humidity at 89%, barometric pressure steady at 30.27 inches, and the dew point temperature at 53 degrees. Winds are averaging 1 MPH over the past 10 minutes generally from the SE. Peak wind gust since midnight has been
9 MPH from the SE at 0552.

Good early morning from the walrus on this cloudy, seasonably mild Tuesday. Today’s attached image shows more trees around the rain gauge and some of the more subtle color changes I took mid-morning Monday.