West Rockville MD Weather

Thursday started out partly cloudy but became cloudy later in the day. Today’s feature image is a sunny image shot in between apartment buildings in my apartment complex, looking W at about 1820 EDT.   Thursday was a bit warmer and a bit more humid, but dry.  High temperatures rose today with strong sun, mostly in the AM, into the upper 80s after a muggy, warm early AM min in the lower 70s. My newly acquired Taylor Max/Min thermometer maxed…

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Wednesday was a partly cloudy day, with some good fair-weather cumulus buildups in the afternoon, a bit warmer and a bit more humid, but dry.  High temperatures rose today with strong sun into the upper-mid 80s after a not a still somewhat comfortable early AM min in the upper-mid 60s. My newly acquired Taylor Max/Min thermometer maxed out at 99.0°, too warm for an official high temperature.  At about 0615 we have partly cloudy skies just after sunrise (first full…

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Tuesday was a partly cloudy day, with some good fair-weather cumulus buildups in the afternoon, not as warm or humid, and was dry.  High temperatures rose today with strong sun into the mid 80s after a not as warm and muggy early AM min in the mid 60s. My newly acquired Taylor Max/Min thermometer maxed out at 95.2°, too warm for an official high temperature.  At about 0605 we have clear skies for the sunrise that just occurred at 0543…

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Monday was a partly cloudy to sunny early part of the day, very warm and humid, then very cloudy late afternoon with finally a mid-afternoon thunderstorm that dumped a bit on my station (0.60″) but a lot less than other stations in the area. The thunder was quite loud with mostly numerous cloud to cloud lightning flashes hitting around the 1530-1600 time period (0.82″/hour max rain rate at 1548) and still quite humid. High temperatures rose today with strong sun…

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Sunday was a partly cloudy, hot, dry but still quite humid. High temperatures rose today with strong sun at times to the lower 90s after a still warm early AM min in the low-mid 70s. My newly acquired Taylor Max/Min thermometer did better with the clouds shielding the full sun’s rays at most key times, maxing out at 92.3°, still a bit too warm but better. We had some cumulus and stratocumulus at times in the warm, muggy air in…

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Saturday was a partly cloudy, warmer, dry but still a quite humid day. High temperatures rose today with some sun to the mid 80s after a still warm early AM min in the low 70s. My newly acquired Taylor Max/Min thermometer did better with the building clouds shielding the full sun’s rays at times, maxing out at 86.9°, still a bit too warm but better. We had building cumulus in the warm, muggy air in the afternoon. At about 0640…

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Friday was a mostly cloudy, cooler, dry but still humid day. High temperatures rose today with really no sun observed to the low-mid 80s after a still warm early AM min around 70°. My newly acquired Taylor Max/Min thermometer did better with the clouds shielding the full sun’s rays, maxing out at 84.7°, still a bit too warm but better. We had a stratocumulus/cumulus overcast most all of the day when I looked out my windows, particularly in the afternoon…

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Thursday was a partly to mostly cloudy, not as warm, dry but a bit less humid day. High temperatures rose today with less sun to the mid 80s after a still warm early AM min in the low 70s. . My newly acquired Taylor Max/Min thermometer did better with more clouds shielding the full sun’s rays, maxing out at 85.8°, still a bit too warm but better. We had some cumulus buildups at times, particularly in the morning hours. At…

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Wednesday was a partly to mostly cloudy, not as hot, dry but still humid (but slightly less so- esp late) day. High temperatures rose today with less sun to the upper 80s after a muggy early AM min in the mid 70s. Some regional station did make it to the 90° mark but still at least 3° lower than yesterday. My newly acquired Taylor Max/Min thermometer topped off at 98.1° again, too warm as the sensor is not shielded from…

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