West Rockville MD Weather

Friday was cloudy and chilly with temperatures holding in the 40s all day and steady light rain starting to fall in the evening (0.55″ for calendar day Friday up to midnight EDT) and extending overnight into Saturday. Winds should be increasing on Saturday as the LOW center moves closer and the pressure gradient tightens up.  Friday’s max temperature was 47.1° at 1551. Friday’s min temperature was 40.0° at 0451. Dew point temperatures ranged from a low of 37° @ 0612…

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Thursday was mostly sunny in the AM, chilly (mid 30s) in the early AM with some frost around then remaining cool all day (low 50s) with slowly increasing clouds as a classic nor-easter is moving in from the south (the classic altostratus sky with the milky sun that occurs most times with pre-nor’easter weather less than a day from arrival – see today’s featured image, taken out the front of my apartment building looking west at around 1700).  Thursday’s max…

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Wednesday was sunny (fair-weather cumulus dancing across the afternoon sky- see today’s featured image) and cooler with high temps only reaching the upper-low 50s after early morning lows around 40° (also reaching those values around midnight)  Wednesday’s max temperature was 53.2° at 1453. Wednesday’s min temperature was 39.8° at 2346. Dew point temperatures ranged from a high of 40° @ 0300 down to a low of 33° @ 2350. Relative humidity values ranged from a high of 83% @ 0731 down to…

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Tuesday was sunny (nary a cloud in the sky all day) and milder with high temps reaching the mid 60s after early morning lows in the low 40s. Tuesday’s max temperature was 66.7° at 1525. Sunday’s min temperature was 41.0° at 0736.  Dew point temperatures ranged from a high of 47° @ 1038 down to a low of 36° @ 1956. Relative humidity values ranged from a high of 94% @ 0832 down to a low of 36% @ 1717. Barometric pressure ranged…

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SEPTEMBER 2018 MONTHLY SUMMARY ROCKVILLE 2.8 WNW MARYLAND                        by Kevin Shaw, Observer in Charge September 2018 kept up the patterns of the 2018 summer with warm and wet conditions most of the month. No really big one day rains this month, but there were 5 days with over an inch of rainfall, and a total of 17 days of measurable rain (which coincidentally was the same amount of cloudy…

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Just too much going on plus a big deadline on finishing up on my September monthly summary (should be on the blog very soon) and lack of sleep has caused me to condense two days of reports into one. Anything that I leave out that you would like to see please just let me know and I will post an update to this post at the appropriate time.  Sunday was partly cloudy, blustery and chilly but dry, with temps maxing…

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Saturday was partly cloudy and mild in the AM with light showers falling around 0330-0430, breezy, gradually cooler in the evening, with more light showers between about 2145-2245 in the evening. High temps reached the upper low 60s by mid-afternoon. Temps dropped a bit in the evening, hitting the upper 40s just before midnight for the day’s minimum. Dew point temperatures lowered from the mid 50s in the AM down to the upper-low 40s by mid evening. Saturday’s max temperature was…

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Friday was mostly sunny, milder in the PM after our first 30s min of the season in the early AM. High temps reached the low 60s by mid-afternoon.  Temps held in the mid-upper 50s in the evening with increasing clouds.  Dew point temperatures rose from the upper 30s in the very early AM to the 50° mark by late evening.  Friday’s max temperature was 61.6° at 1445. Friday’s min temperature was 38.0° at 0715. Dew point temperatures ranged from a low…

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Thursday was sunny, cooler, drier with breezes diminishing. High temps reached the mid 50s by mid-afternoon after early AM lows fell to the lower 40s. Dew point temperatures held in the 30s all day.  Thursday’s max temperature was 54.4° at 1532. Thursday’s min temperature was 41.9° at 2355. Dew point temperatures ranged from a high of 40° @ 0030 down to a low of 30° @ 0515. Relative humidity values ranged from a low of 47% @ 1615 up to a high…

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Wednesday was mostly sunny, breezy at times, cooler and drier. High temps reached the lower mid 60s by mid-afternoon after early AM lows fell to the upper 40s. Dew point temperatures topped out at 50° at midnight, dropping gradually all day till hitting the lowest value of the day in the upper 30s just prior to midnight.  Wednesday’s max temperature was 63.8° at 1446. Wednesday’s min temperature was 48.2° at 0615. Dew point temperatures ranged from a high of 50° @…

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