Thursday continued the hot and humid pattern of the week. Still the day featured partly cloudy skies, very warm temperatures and higher dew points. We did have a very light early evening shower (T). Max temps reached the low 90s by mid-afternoon while the daily minimum temperature around 70 was reached in the early morning hours right around sunrise.

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

Friday should be partly to mostly sunny, hot and humid with highs around 95 with lows in the 70-75 range. Saturday still looks to be quite hot and humid with highs in the mid 90s with increasing chances of showers and storms with Sunday and Monday looking to be cooler with highs around 85 with chances of showers and storms under partly cloudy skies and lows in the mid-upper 60s both days.

Statistics for Thursday:

High temp 91.4 at 1623

Low temp 70.5 at 0559

Max humidity 94% at 0614

Min humidity 50% at 1418

Max dew point 77 at 1946

Min dew point 68 at 0559

Max barometric pressure 30.16″ at 0742

Low barometric pressure 30.11″ at 1856

Peak Wind Gust (PWG) 16 MPH from the W at 1320

Thursday’s average daily wind speed 3.3 (BWI) 2.8 (IAD)

Thursday’s average sky cover 0.6 (BWI) 0.6 (IAD)

Daily total precipitation T (BWI 0.00″ IAD 0.01″)

July total precipitation 1.60″

Year-to-date total precipitation 16.89″

Sunrise 0556 (EDT)

Sunset 2034 (EDT)

Moon First Quarter

Currently at 0255 AM EDT Friday we have fair skies with a temperature of 75.5, barometer 30.03″ and steady, relative humidity 84%, dew point 70, winds W-NW 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.