West Rockville MD Weather

Thursday featured partly to mostly cloudy skies, cooler temperatures and pleasant dew point temperatures. High temperatures only reached the upper 70s, with dew points in the lower 60s and upper 50s. Now at 0452 we have mostly cloudy skies with 0.11″ of rain falling since midnight in the USG gauge, and 0.09″ falling in my VP2 gauge. Rain has stopped for now. I don’t think we will have any more the rest of the day. Temperatures are in the mid…

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Wednesday featured a bit of clouds early and a very light shower/sprinkle (T) that gave way to slowly improving conditions as this day progressed. High temperatures only reached the low 80s, with dew points lowering through the 60s. Now at 0650 we have mostly cloudy skies but with no rain falling in the area. Temperatures are in the mid 60s with dew points in the more comfortable upper 50s. The Monday minimum temperature from the VP2 in the shelter on…

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CLIMATE STATISTICS FOR JULY 2017 Average high temperature 87.3° Average low temperature 70.9° Mean temperature 79.1° Precipitation 8.65″ Greatest daily amount(date) 2.92″ (28) Snow 0.0″ Year to date precipitation 26.20″ High temperature for the month (date) 94° (21) Low temperature for the month (date) 61° (31) Highest barometric pressure (date) 30.23” (26) Lowest barometric pressure (date) 29.65” (29) Peak wind gust (date/direction): N/A Heating degree days for the month: 0 Cooling degree days for the month: 438 Greatest diurnal range…

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Tuesday was partly sunny, hot and quite humid with dew point temperatures approaching the very uncomfortable 80° mark. Showers and storms threatened later in the day at times, but never reached my station. Considerable cumulus cloud buildups occurred once again in the mid-late afternoon. Now at 0708 we have cloudy skies and rain showers in the area, but nothing falling at my location at the present time. Temperatures are in the low 70s with dew points just below that around…

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Monday was partly sunny, warmer and considerably more humid than Sunday with dew points soaring once again. Considerable cumulus cloud buildups in the mid-afternoon had a significant effect on the peak partial eclipse viewing (82% of totality at peak which was at 1442 EDT) I took a lot of observations with my VP2, particularly with the USG VP2 across the street which has a solar radiation sensor on it, and provided the most dynamic changes to view during the eclipse….

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Sunday was sunny and a bit cooler, a fairly pleasant day with lower dew points than we have been having. No rain fell today with no storms in the area that I know of. Now at 0600 we have cloudy skies with temps in the low 70s with dew point temperatures rising the past several hours into the upper 60s. The Sunday minimum temperature from the VP2 in the shelter on the ground nearby (66.3°) was recorded at 0632 while…

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Saturday was partly to mostly cloudy, not as hot, humid early but increasingly drier with clearing skies late. No rain fell today though storms hit just to my north in the Frederick area around 1900 and far to my SE over Calvert County around 2300. Now at 0748 we have clear skies with temps in the upper 60s with drier dew point temperatures in the low 60s. The Saturday minimum temperature from the VP2 in the shelter on the ground…

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Thursday was partly to mostly cloudy, hot, humid but still amazingly dry save for light showers (0.07″) in the evening about 1840. I heard thunder earlier in the afternoon from time to time. Storms were really rocking in the area, but missing my area, despite radar showing strong echoes right over my area at times.  Earlier we got some sun, rocking the  temperatures to over the 90° mark after early morning low temperatures in the warm, muggy mid 70s. Now…

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Thursday was partly sunny, hot, humid but still mostly dry save for a light shower in the mid-afternoon between 3-4 PM I believe (.02″). Temperatures rose to about 90° after early morning low temperatures in the muggy low 70s. Now at 0700 we have cloudy skies with temps in the mid 70s with muggy dew point temperatures also in the mid 70s. The Thursday minimum temperature from the VP2 in the shelter on the ground nearby (71.7°) was recorded at…

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