Wednesday was hot and humid for a good part of the day, with highs reaching the mid-90s by mid-afternoon. Partly sunny skies gave way to mostly cloudy, threatening
looking clouds in the late afternoon that cooled us off a bit but yielded only a trace of rain in a few sprinkles. Minimum temps held from yesterday with the lowest readings in the mid 70s, occurring in the early morning hours at sunrise.

The winds picked up with the threatening clouds, with the 30 MPH NW PWG in the early evening the highest I have had since the 45 MPH PWG I had back in the strong thunderstorm on the 21st. Barometric pressures were highest in the early morning and lowest with the clouds in the early evening.

Cloudy skies Thursday with mostly cloudy skies, showers and storms likely at times, highs in the mid-upper 80s, lows in the upper 60s. Cloudy and cooler on Friday with
highs in the upper 70s and lows in the lower 60s. Saturday and Sunday now look to be dry. with partly cloudy skies, highs in the low-mid 80s, lows in the upper 50s
Saturday to the low-mid 60s on Sunday.

Statistics for Wednesday:

High temp 95.2 at 1506 (hottest temp of the month)

Low temp 74.1 at 0545

Max humidity 84% at 0627

Min humidity 48% at 1604

Max dew point 76 at 1236

Min dew point 68 at 2016

Max barometric pressure 30.17″ at 0014

Low barometric pressure 29.94″ at 1756

Peak Wind Gust (PWG) 30 MPH from the NW at 1916

Wednesday’s average daily wind speed 5.4 (BWI) 5.8 (IAD)

Wednesday’s average sky cover 0.4 (BWI) 0.4 (IAD)

Daily total precipitation T

June total precipitation 2.09″

Year-to-date total precipitation 15.29″

Sunrise 0547 (EDT)

Sunset 2039 (EDT)

Moon Last Quarter

Currently at 0429 AM EDT Thursday we have mostly cloudy skies with a temperature of 73.7, barometer 29.94″ and falling, relative humidity 87%, dew point 70, winds N-NE 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 last Monday (6/21) night’s post sunset westerly view past the rain gauge through some of the leftover clouds from the earlier evening thunderstorm.