West Rockville MD Weather

Saturday was another cloudy day, a tad milder but still cool, with mostly mid-day light rain (0.36″ cocorahs gauge total, Max rain rate 0.56″/hour @ 1136 from the VP2) and then occasional drizzle and fog developing late with dense fog at times overnight into early Sunday morning. The warm front has just been inching northward keeping our temperatures cooler than predicted.The Saturday maximum temperature from the VP2 (50.4°) was recorded at 1458 while the minimum temperature (46.0°) was recorded very…

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Thursday was a cloudy day, mild at the very start but cooling off quickly overnight with occasional light showers (0.06″) and light drizzle and fog at times. The Thursday maximum temperature from the VP2 (67.2°) was recorded very early at 0000 while the minimum temperature (41.6°) was recorded very late at 2358. The AM Min was 50.8° at 1110 and the PM Max was 52.6° at 1325. Dew point temperatures ranged from a high of 61° at 0000 down to…

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I composed my entire Tuesday report earlier this morning, but server problems with my email did not allow me to send it, and my email did not save, so it is gone. I have reconstructed a slightly briefer report now. Tuesday was partly to mostly sunny and quite warm. My 76.1 high temp was the warmest daily max temp I have recorded since 78.0 was reached back in October 2017. Wednesday probably will exceed that record. Temps on Tuesday rose…

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President’s Day Monday was a bit showery (0.02″) around sunrise, then cloudy and mild the rest of the day with only a bit of spotty drizzle and fog at times in the late evening and overnight into Tuesday. Temps rose to the mid 40s by mid-afternoon, very similar to Sunday. The Monday maximum temperature from the VP2 (46.7°) was recorded late at 2342 while the minimum temperature (37.7°) was recorded very early at 0018. Dew point temperatures ranged from a…

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Friday was a cloudy day, quite mild in the early AM with a brief somewhat intense shower about 0330 that had a max rain rate of 3.95″/hour. The last bit of rain fell around 0545. The rest of the day was cloudy, dry and gradually colder with clearing in the evening. Temperatures started out in the mid 60s right at midnight, then fell into the upper 50s by mid AM then a slight rise to a PM max of 61°…

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Sunday featured more clouds and steady light rain, mostly in the morning with considerable early morning fog, then warmer temps well into the 60s in the afternoon. Dew point temps and air temps were one in the same for a good part of the day. More convective type clouds in the afternoon sky were evident. Temperatures rose up to the mid 60s by early afternoon into the early evenng, after a mild night well above the freezing mark in the…

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Saturday featured clouds and steady light rain from late morning through the rest of the day. Temperatures rose up to the mid 40s by late evening, after a mild night above the freezing mark in the mid 30s in the early AM. The Saturday maximum temperature from the VP2 (45.9°) was recorded at 2332 while the minimum temperature (36.8°) was recorded at 0333. Dew point temperatures rose today, ranging from a low of 33° very early at 0106 up to…

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Wednesday was cloudy, cold and rainy (0.50″) most of the day, with some freezing as temps hung right under and at the freezing mark much of the day. But icing of roads and sidewalks didn’t seem to be that much of a problem in my neighborhood, but in areas further north icing was a big problem and cancellations and delays of most school systems in the region were definitely in evidence. Today’s featured image shows a mostly wet parking lot…

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Monday had some leftover clouds early from Sunday’s storm, but cleared out early and most of the day was sunny and cold. Temps were relatively cold in the not too early AM, and remained that way the rest of the day, as high temps only reached the mid 30s. The Monday maximum temperature from the VP2 (34.9°) was recorded early at 0513 while the minimum temperature (27.0°) was recorded just a few hours later at 0854. Dew point temperatures started…

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Sunday featured continuous, stable cold temps with very little diurnal range (3.5° – lowest range since Jan 21, 2017 when I had a 2.9° range) due to the steady rain (1.13″) most of the day, once again barely getting over the freezing mark all day. I hunkered down with the Super Bowl and watching my tipping bucket rain gauge continously report the light, steady rain. The rain fell mostly between mid-day and the early evening, with the heaviest rain recorded…

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