Tuesday cooled off behind Monday night’s storms/frontal passage with max temps in the upper 70s reached by mid afternoon. Partly cloudy skies overnight with a light shower (.01″) occurring around 0100 gave way to mostly sunny skies during the day. Minimum temps in the lower mid 60s were reached in the early morning hours. Dew points dropped from the mid 60s at midnight down to the pleasant mid 50s by early evening.

The winds increased a bit more during the afternoon veering around to a drier cooler N direction. Barometric pressures, once again somewhat muted, were lowest in the early morning hours and highest in the later stages of the evening.

Wednesday and Thursday should be partly to mostly sunny with the cooler temps continuing, highs in the upper 70s and lows in the mid 50s. Warming up on Friday with partly cloudy skies with highs in the mid 80s and lows in the mid 60s, then further warming up into the upper 80s to around 90 on Saturday with more clouds than sun and a chance of showers and storms. Sunday should be quite warm into the upper 80s once again with partly cloudy skies but with lower rain chances.

Statistics for Tuesday:

High temp 78.2 at 1527

Low temp 63.4 at 0615

Max humidity 95% at 0146

Min humidity 53% at 1412

Max dew point 66 at 0001

Min dew point 57 at 1935

Max barometric pressure 29.88″ at 2231

Low barometric pressure 29.78″ at 0300

Peak Wind Gust (PWG) 25 MPH from the N at 1607

Tuesday’s average daily wind speed 7.9 (BWI) 8.4 (IAD)

Monday’s average sky cover 0.5 (BWI) 0.5 (IAD)

Daily total precipitation 0.01″

June total precipitation 1.63″

Year-to-date total precipitation 14.83″

Sunrise 0542 (EDT)

Sunset 2037 (EDT)

Moon Waxing Crescent

Currently at 0450 AM EDT Wednesday we have mostly cloudy skies with a temperature of 61.3, barometer 29.89″ and steady, relative humidity 81%, dew point 55, winds NNW at 0-5 MPH. No rain has fallen since midnight into the tipping bucket VP2 gauge at the USG site across the street from me.

Today’s feature image was one taken recently out at my cocorahs rain gauge looking west through damp cloudy skies around sunset.