Thursday started out cloudy with rain falling right at midnight and continuing off and on most of the overnight (0.30″). It remained cloudy most of the daylight hours before clearing off in the late afternoon. We reached the mid 70s for highs with dew points dropping through the 60s early right at midnight to the upper 50s by the very end of the day. We peaked with a cooler max temperature (75.4) of the day in the later mid-afternoon. The low temperature for the day (in the lower mid-60s) was reached at the very end of the day.

The peak wind gust for the day (19 MPH) was not as strong as yesterday, peaking at the very beginning of the day, veering around to a NW direction. Barometric pressures were highest in at the very end of the day while the lowest was reached in the early morning hours.

Friday starts a sunny, dry period through mid-week next week, with highs in the mid-upper 70s on Friday and lows in the mid-upper 50s, 80 and 60 on Saturday, then temperatures climbing each day through the 80s till getting close to 90 by next Wednesday. Lows should climb slowly through the period through the 60s.

Statistics for Tuesday:

High temp 75.4 at 1610

Low temp 63.1 at 2359

Max humidity 96% at 0828

Min humidity 63% at 1744

Max dew point 68 at 0000

Min dew point 58 at 2350

Max barometric pressure 29.90″ at 2352

Low barometric pressure 29.77″ at 0510

Peak Wind Gust (PWG) 19 MPH from the NW at 0003

Thursday’s average daily wind speed 4.2 (BWI) 5.8 (IAD)

Thursday’s average sky cover 0.8 (BWI) 0.8 (IAD)

Daily total precipitation 0.30″ (BWI 0.12″ IAD 0.43″)

September total precipitation 2.50″

Year-to-date total precipitation 27.58″

Sunrise 0646 (EDT)

Sunset 1926 (EDT)

Moon Waxing Crescent

Currently at 0224 AM EDT Friday we have clear skies, a temperature of 62.0, barometer 29.91″ and rising, relative humidity 80%, dew point 56, winds NNW-NE 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 attached image for today shows some nice cirrus clouds looking up at the sky from the vicinity of the rain gauge on Saturday afternoon (9/4/2021).