Wednesday was partly cloudy, dry and cool with fresher winds than yesterday. Clouds in the evening were causing some snow to fall above us but the air was too dry and temperatures too warm to reach us on the ground. I reached the upper 40s for today’s high with dew points again in the 30s falling into the upper 20s at times in the late afternoon and evening. We peaked with our maximum temperature (49.2) of the day in the mid afternoon while the low temperature was reached in the mid 30s with scattered frost in the early morning hours.

The peak wind gust for the day (26 MPH) was stronger than yesterday, peaking in the mid-day, maintaining the colder NW direction from yesterday. Barometric pressures were highest in the morning while the lowest was reached in the early morning hours just after midnight.

Thursday through Saturday should be partly to mostly sunny and dry with highs in the low-mid 50s and lows around freezing to the mid 30s. A gradual warmup should follow over the next few days thereafter with dry conditions continuing.

Basic Statistics for Wednesday:

High temp 49.2 at 1442

Low temp 34.5 at 0050

Peak Wind Gust (PWG) 26 MPH from the NW at 1215

Daily total precipitation 0 (BWI 0 IAD 0)

Average wind speed 4.6 (BWI) 5.3 (IAD)

Average sky cover 0.4 (BWI) 0.4 (IAD)

November total precipitation 0.12″

Year-to-date total precipitation 34.23″

Sunrise 0740 (EDT)

Sunset 1805 (EDT)

Moon New Moon

Currently at 0140 AM EDT Thursday we have fair skies with a temperature of 38.3, barometer 30.38″ and steady, relative humidity 84%, dew point 34, winds E-NE @ 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 our cloudy early evening around 1800 and our muted fall foliage exhibited on some of the trees out my bedroom window looking NE on Saturday afternoon (10/30).