Wednesday continued the hot and humid pattern of the week but not quite a bad with more afternoon clouds that looked threatening for a few hours but never materialized into anything significant. Still the day featured partly cloudy skies, very warm temperatures and slightly lower dew points. Max temps reached the 90 mark by mid-afternoon while the daily minimum temperature in the mid-70s was not reached until very late in the day, just before midnight.

The winds lessened again today, veering to a westerly direction. Barometric pressures were highest mid morning while lowest in the early evening.

Thursday and Friday should be partly to mostly sunny, hot and humid with highs in the 90-95 range with lows in the 70-75 range. Saturday still looks to be quite hot and humid with highs in the mid 90s with Sunday looking to be cooler with highs in the 85-90 range with chances of showers and storms under partly to mostly cloudy skies and lows around 70 both days.

Statistics for Wednesday:

High temp 90.0 at 1454

Low temp 74.6 at 2358

Max humidity 89% at 0657

Min humidity 51% at 1552

Max dew point 73 at 0749

Min dew point 68 at 1132

Max barometric pressure 30.20″ at 0843

Low barometric pressure 30.11″ at 1807

Peak Wind Gust (PWG) 18 MPH from the W at 1214

Wednesday’s average daily wind speed 6.5 (BWI) 4.4 (IAD)

Wednesday’s average sky cover 0.6 (BWI) 0.5 (IAD)

Daily total precipitation 0.00″ (BWI 0.00″ IAD T)

July total precipitation 1.60″

Year-to-date total precipitation 16.89″

Sunrise 0555 (EDT)

Sunset 2034 (EDT)

Moon Waxing Crescent

Currently at 0349 AM EDT Thursday we have clear skies with a temperature of 71.9, barometer 30.12″ and falling, relative humidity 92%, dew point 70, winds S-SW 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.

The featured image for today shows a late June image past the rain gauge looking west right after sunset amidst partly cloudy skies.