West Rockville MD Weather

Sunday was a cloudy, cold, snowless day that saw the snowpack reduce a bit under the still surprisingly powerful sun’s rays under the cloudy skies. Sunday temperatures dropped very early in the AM into the upper mid 20s, then rising into the low 30s by sunrise, and peaking out in the upper 30s by mid-afternoon. Dew points were in the 20s all day. The Sunday minimum temperature from the VP2 (27.6°) was recorded at 0141 while the maximum temperature (37.8°)…

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Saturday was a glorious day, nice and wintry with cloudy, cold skies and an all day beautiful light snow (2.0″ total – average of 4 measurements on the snowboard and a 0.21″ snow water equivalent (SWE)) that only accumulated on trees, grass and car tops, and left the roadways and sidewalks just wet) (see several pictures below – small file size), but later on in the evening turned icy. I had to wear these ice gripper spikes on my shoes…

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On Wednesday we had mostly cloudy skies (gradually rising overcast stratocumulus and altocumulus) with no further rain, and breezy, blustery conditions at times resulting in lowering wind chills. Temperatures chilled slowly all day starting out in the mid 50s very early, then dropping to the upper 30s by mid morning, then rising only slightly into the low 40s during the day and lowering again into the upper 30s by late evening. Dew points were in the 50s early then dropped…

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I crashed on Tuesday evening and did not make my regular post on that day till right now. What I have here is a brief update on the important climate data and weather observations for the day but without many of the regular features I usually post. I will be posting my Wednesday daily update shortly and resume all of those additional features. On Tuesday we had mostly cloudy skies with light rain falling (0.15″) between approximately 4 PM and…

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Monday featured a good deal of “milky” sun, filtered partially by an increasing high cloud overcast from our slowly approaching cold front. Temperatures started out frosty around the freezing mark, rising up into the low 50s by mid-afternoon. Dew points were around 30° early then rose into the lower-mid 40s by the afternoon and holding the rest of the day. At 0934 we have a high cloud overcast thick enough to block off the sun this morning, with temperatures milder…

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Sunday featured our first monthly precipitation in December, a whopping 0.04″ that fell in the early AM around 0600-0630, with the clouds moving out quickly and sun shining by 0900. Mostly sunny the rest of the day, a bit milder than yesterday. Temperatures started out mild with clouds and the rain – around 40°, then rose into the low 50s by mid-afternoon, then dropped off in the evening, reaching the low for the day just prior to midnight (mid 30s)….

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