Tropical Storm Elsa paid us a glancing blow here today. Clouds, occasional light rain, moderate breezes at times were in evidence during parts of the afternoon into the evening. Max temps reached the mid 80s early with AM partial sun, but clouds from Elsa put a lid on the temperature rising any further, holding in the 70s during much of the PM hours. High temps reached the mid 80s midday with the daily min temp around 70 reached in the later stages of the evening.

The winds logically increased into a peak mid-afternoon moderately strong range, still in the westerly direction, but later more in an easterly direction around Elsa’s
circulation. Barometric pressures were not as low as you might expect, peaking in the mid afternoon, lowest in the late evening.

Friday we will have showers and storms continuing under partly cloudy skies, highs reaching the upper 80s, lows in the mid 60s. Saturday should be mostly cloudy but
dry, with highs in the mid 80s and lows in the upper 60s. Sunday and Monday should be partly cloudy, very warm and humid with highs in the upper 80s to around 90 with
chances of showers and storms, lows in the lower 70s.

Statistics for Thursday:

High temp 87.1 at 1228

Low temp 70.1 at 2150

Max humidity 93% at 2317

Min humidity 63% at 1221

Max dew point 75 at 1142

Min dew point 68 at 1917

Max barometric pressure 29.98″ at 1529

Low barometric pressure 29.86″ at 2331

Peak Wind Gust (PWG) 28 MPH from the W at 1523

Thursday’s average daily wind speed 5.5 (BWI) 5.5 (IAD)

Thursday’s average sky cover 0.9 (BWI) 0.9 (IAD)

Daily total precipitation 0.16″ (BWI 0.34″ IAD 0.79″)

July total precipitation 0.94″

Year-to-date total precipitation 16.23″

Sunrise 0551 (EDT)

Sunset 2037 (EDT)

Moon New Moon

Currently at 0233 AM EDT Friday we have cloudy skies with a temperature of 69.7, barometer 29.84″ and falling, relative humidity 95%, dew point 68,winds NNW-NE at 5-10 MPH. 0.10″ of rain has fallen since midnight into the tipping bucket VP2 gauge at the USG site across the street from me.

The featured image for today shows storm clouds starting to build locally early on the afternoon of Thursday, July 1.