West Rockville MD Weather

Sunday was a mostly cloudy, colder day with just traces of evening rain in frontal activity that is ushering in some cold and  very windy conditions on occasion. The Sunday minimum temperature from the VP2 (36.8°) was recorded at 0739 while the maximum temperature (43.1°) was recorded at 0000. Dew point temperatures ranged from 38° at 0000 down to 31° at 1011. Relative humidity values lowered a bit from yesterday’s values (95% – 67%). Barometric values raised from yesterday, ranging…

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Tuesday was a mostly sunny, still milder day. It was the second warmest day of the month, only surpassed by a 57.7° max on December 5. I once again remained above freezing overnight, only dropping into the upper-low 40s. Temps warmed in the strong sun into the upper-mid 50s in the mid-afternoon, then dropped off a bit but was still in the mid 40s by midnight obs time. The Tuesday minimum temperature from the VP2 (43.1°) was recorded at 0305…

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Monday was a partly to mostly cloudy, milder day. I remained above freezing overnight. Temps warmed into the mid 50s in the mid-afternoon, then dropped off a bit but was still in the mid-upper 40s by midnight obs time. The Monday minimum temperature from the VP2 (33.7°) was recorded at 0739 while the maximum temperature (54.3°) was recorded at 1453. Dew point temps ranged from 31° at 0656 up to 41° at 1549. Relative humidity values rose a bit from…

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Sunday was a catch up day, busy all day with Christmas planning, weather report backlog cleanup, and plenty of great NFL football action. besides the usual email, facebook, laundry and meal preparation/consuming. The result? Higher chances of unintentional errors in my data reporting with this report. I apologize for any or all errors and as always will fix them if you report them to me. Thanks! Sunday was a partly to mostly cloudy, milder day with rainfall overhead according to…

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Saturday continued my crazy holiday schedule so I didn’t get a chance to post my daily weather for the day till now. So I will be brief once again with just basic data and highlights of the day. I will make a full post for Sunday in an hour or two hopefully. Saturday was a mostly sunny, milder day that unfortunately melted all our snow from Friday. At least it was cold (20s) overnight so the snow remained till the…

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Friday was a mostly cloudy, colder day that featured mid-day to late afternoon light snow and sleet that put our outdoor views in a decidedly festive, traditional holiday “mood.” It was beautiful! Please see the featured image  picture taken at about 1500 while still snowing lightly (but very hard to see it falling) looking out into the somewhat snowy courtyard from my ground floor party room in my building . It remained cold, well below freezing all day.  The altocumulus…

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I had some computer/logistical/snowy problems/concerns on Thursday evening/early Friday morning so I did not post my Thursday report until now. It will be a briefer, more condensed report for Thursday, with a resumption to a full report for our (somewhat) snowy Friday. Featured image to this post shows an early Christmas present I got from my grandson Gideon, through his Mom (my daughter) Robin, and the Amazon courier service from Las Vegas to Maryland. Please excuse this one transgression away…

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Wednesday was a partly cloudy, cold, and blustery day in the AM and early PM, then I had increasing clouds in the mid-afternoon and lessening winds brought on by more clipper action that was mostly active to the north in PA, OH, NJ and NY and near the MD/PA border with light snow showers and flurries in the evening. I did not receive any measurable snow, but see a few flurries (T) on occasion after dark. Temps held at 31…

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Tuesday was a partly to mostly sunny, snowless day that started out mild but temperatures started to drop significantly in the afternoon and evening with significant wind chills heading towards the 0 mark. Tuesday temperature changes were quite dynamic starting out mild and then dropping all afternoon into the evening, then flattening out overnight in the low 20s. Winds really picked up after the frontal passage, and wind chills dropped towards the 0 mark by the end of the day….

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Monday was a mostly to partly cloudy, milder, snowless day that actually saw the snowpack vanish (see featured image) as temps rose into the mid 40s and mins stayed above freezing. Monday temperatures only dropped early in the AM into the upper low 30s, then rose into the mid 40s by mid-afternoon, then slowly dropped off a bit to the upper 30s around midnight. Dew points were in the 20s at first then rose into the low 30s later in…

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