West Rockville MD Weather

Changing up on my usual once every 10 days reporting pace, I thought the very active, stormy pattern for a good part of the day on Monday was quite interesting and warranted a special post off-schedule. Light rain began late Sunday evening, continuing overnight into Monday morning and slowly increasing in intensity as the rumble of thunder became more frequent. A very active warm front advanced north into the area along a vigorous LOW pressure system. Tornadoes from this system…

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The mixture of mild to warm days interspersed with cooler periods with frequent light rains continued through the beginning of April. We had only 0.42 inches total of rainfall during this period, with 9.17 inches for the year through April 10. Once again we had no days with minimum temperatures at or below the freezing mark (extreme low only 38.4 degrees on the 2nd) during this latest 10 day period. The highest temperature of this period was 75.7 degrees on…

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February 2020 was warmer and a bit wetter than normal. My maximum temperature average (48.8°) was 4.0° above normal but my minimum temperature average (33.1°) was more significantly above normal (+6.3°), resulting in the mean temperature average of 40.9° to be 5.1° above normal. My total precipitation of 3.27″ was 0.52” above the normal February value for my station of 2.75”. There were 12 days with measurable precipitation, all of which occurred between the 1st – 13th (2.37”) and 25th…

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Continuing with the roughly 10 day shorter summaries to cover a general period of more or less similar weather patterns, the mixture of mild to warm days with frequent light rains continued through this ending of month period.  We had a similar 1.14 inches total of rainfall during this period, only 0.03″ more than the previously reported period. I now have 8.75 inches for the year through March 31. Once again we had no days with minimum temperatures at or…

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Continuing with the roughly 10 day shorter summaries to cover a general period of more or less similar weather patterns, the mixture of mild to warm days with frequent light rains were the norm for this period. We had 1.11 inches total of rainfall during this period catching up March to closer to normal after a dry first third of the month. I now have 7.61 inches for the year through March 20. We had no days with minimum temperatures…

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Continuing with the roughly 10 day shorter summaries to cover a general period of more or less similar weather patterns, a mixture of mild to warm beginning and end with a cooler middle period temperature-wise but quite dry throughout the period. We had only 0.21 inches total of rainfall during this period giving March quite a dry start. I now have 6.50 inches for the year through March 10. We had only 2 days with minimum temperatures at or below…

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Continuing with the roughly 10 day shorter summaries (leap year made thi period a 9 day one to close out the month) to cover a general period of more or less similar weather patterns, a mixture of mild and somewhat cold, and dry or wet throughout the  period. We had 0.90 inches total of rainfall during this period and I finished up with 3.27 inches of precipitation for the month of February and 6.29 inches for the year through February…

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JANUARY 2020 MONTHLY SUMMARY ROCKVILLE 2.8 WNW MARYLAND by Kevin Shaw, Observer January 2020 was warmer and a bit wetter than normal. My maximum temperature average (46.9°) was 5.6° above normal but my minimum temperature average (32.8°) was much more significantly above normal (+ 8.3°), resulting in the mean temperature average of 39.9° to be 6.9° above normal. My total precipitation of 3.17″ was 0.26” above the normal January value for my station of 2.91”. There were 10 days with…

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Continuing  with the 10 day shorter summaries to cover a general period of more or less similar weather patterns, our wet pattern from the start of the month continued though the 13th then dry weather took over for the remaining days of the period. We had 0.69″ total of rainfall during this period and we now are up to 2.37″ of precipitation for the month and 5.39″ for the year. We only 4 days with mins at or below the…

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For the time being I won’t be posting daily wx updates, but more like 7-10 day shorter summaries to cover a general period of more or less similar weather patterns. We sure have started off February mild to warm and wet, with 1.68 inches of rain falling, 7 cloudy days, and only 3 days with mins at or below the freezing mark (extreme low only 28.4 deg on the 9th, which is actually above the normal min temp for this…

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