Saturday gave us the predicted one day respite from the heating up process as clouds from a weak coastal storm passed tp the East and kept a lid on the high temps for the day under the cloudy but dry skies here. We only warmed up to the upper mid 70s by late morning. The daily minimum temperature in the upper mid 60s was reached in the early morning hours a bit after sunrise. It remained dry here all day as rain fell just to my east at times.

The peak winds (15 MPH) were rather light despite this “coastal storm”, “highest” in the early afternoon while veering over to the south at that time but predominately blowing in an easterly direction from the weak flow from the storm during most of the day. Barometric pressures were highest at the very start of the day while the lowest were in the early evening.

Sunday and Monday should be partly cloudy and very warm with highs in the upper 80s to around 90 with lows in the upper 60s with little chances of rain. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday should be partly sunny, hot and humid with highs in the mid 90s and lows in the low 70s with chances of showers and/or storms each day.

Statistics for Saturday:

High temp 76.8 at 1123

Low temp 67.9 at 0632

Max humidity 92% at 0706

Min humidity 66% at 1519

Max dew point 70 at 0947

Min dew point 62 at 1519

Max barometric pressure 30.13″ at 0000

Low barometric pressure 30.03″ at 1757

Peak Wind Gust (PWG) 15 MPH from the S at 1329

Saturday’s average daily wind speed 4.2 (BWI) 3.5 (IAD)

Saturday’s average sky cover 0.8 (BWI) 0.8 (IAD)

Daily total precipitation 0 (BWI T IAD T)

August total precipitation 0.30″

Year-to-date total precipitation 19.32″

Sunrise 0616 (EDT)

Sunset 2013 (EDT)

Moon New Moon

Currently at 0240 AM EDT Sunday we have partly cloudy skies with a temperature of 66.9, barometer 30.04″ and steady, relative humidity 91%, dew point 64, winds E-ENE 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.

The attached image for today shows storm clouds building around 1600 on Thursday (7/29) with rain sprinkling down a little bit outside of the entrance to my apartment building.