West Rockville MD Weather

Tuesday was cloudy, a bit cooler in the PM but warmer in the early AM, breaking our freezing min streak (through 3/27 22 of 27 days have had freezing mins this March – correction to yesterday’s report). It was still breezy at times, with a trace of afternoon sprinkles. Temperatures rebounded later to reach the mid 40s by mid-afternoon, held down by all the cloudiness. The Tuesday maximum temperature from the VP2 (44.0°) was recorded at 1543 while the minimum…

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Sunday was partly to mostly cloudy, a bit cooler due to the cloudiness but still hit freezing in the early AM (through 3/26 22 of 26 days have had freezing mins this March). It was still breezy at times. Temperatures rebounded some after the sub-freezing 30° minima to reach the low-mid 40s by late afternoon. There was some rain (and even snow) reported by Marty in Eldersburg to my NE over Carroll County and points N and E. The Sunday…

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Saturday was partly cloudy, a tad milder PM but still freezing in the early AM (through 3/25 21 of 25 days have had freezing mins this March), with the snowpack melted off to 0 from the strong March sun. Today’s feature image is looking N from my balcony from Saturday afternoon. It was also breezy at times, creating wind chill temps in the 20s and 30s early and late in the day. Temperatures rebounded after the sub-freezing 30° minima to…

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Friday was mostly sunny, a tad milder PM but still freezing in the early AM (through 3/24 20 of 24 days have had freezing mins this March), with the snowpack just about wiped out from the strong March sun. Temperatures rebounded after the sub-freezing 30° minima to reach the mid 40s by mid-afternoon. A 1 inch snowpack early melted off to a very patchy trace by the end of the day. It was still breezy at times. The Friday maximum…

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Tuesday featured cloudy skies, much colder temperatures, and precipitation most of the day (0.69″) of first rain, then sleet, then snow, mostly light (snow/sleet/ice total 0.8″). Temperatures started out in the low 40s, but slowly dropped into the 30s (36° when the rain commenced around 0600) then down to 33° by mid-morning when sleet then snow mixed in, further dropping the temperature to around 30° where it would stay the rest of the day. The Tuesday maximum temperature from the…

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Monday featured sunny skies, warmer all day and in fact the warmest day (so far) of March, and warmest day since February 28 when 63.3 was the high recorded. We did have increasing clouds late ahead of our stormy mid-week weather. We have a radically different scenario for Tuesday, with clouds and much colder temps as rain started to fall around 0600 and is expected to turn to sleet and snow later on today. Temperatures have been running just above…

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