Wednesday was pleasantly cooler than normal with highs in the mid 70s reached in the later mid-afternoon period. Mostly sunny skies predominated all day. Minimum temps were also much cooler today with the lowest in the lower mid 50s occurring in the overnight hours but with a slight warmup by sunrise into the mid 50s at midnight down to the low 50s by mid-evening.

The winds slackened off to light levels blowing in from an E direction, peaking around midday. Barometric pressures were lowest at the beginning of the day and highest by late evening.

It was really nice day on Thursday with highs in the mid 70s and lows in the low-mid 50s under mostly sunny skies. Friday should start a warm up with partly cloudy skies and highs in the mid 80s, lows in the upper 60s, then partly cloudy, even warmer skies on Saturday through Monday but dry with highs in the upper 80s early to low 90s later in the period with lows mostly in the lower 70s.

Statistics for Wednesday:

High temp 74.4 at 1625

Low temp 52.7 at 0406

Max humidity 84% at 0328

Min humidity 37% at 1723

Max dew point 53 at 0000

Min dew point 43 at 1025

Max barometric pressure 30.32″ at 2226

Low barometric pressure 30.05″ at 0000

Peak Wind Gust (PWG) 13 MPH from the E at 1210

Wednesday’s average daily wind speed 4.4 (BWI) 3.6 (IAD)

Wednesday’s average sky cover 0.3 (BWI) 0.2 (IAD)

Daily total precipitation 0.00″

June total precipitation 2.07″

Year-to-date total precipitation 15.27″

Sunrise 0544 (EDT)

Sunset 2039 (EDT)

Moon Full Moon

Currently at 0422 AM EDT Thursday we have clear skies with a temperature of 56.1, barometer 30.33″ and steady, relative humidity 86%, dew point 52, winds S-SW at 0-5 MPH. No rain has fallen since midnight into the tipping bucket VP2 gauge at the USG site across the street from me.

Today’s feature image showed a bit of Monday night’s post sunset moon through the leftover clouds from the earlier evening thunderstorm.