West Rockville MD Weather

Saturday featured cloudy skies early with clearing conditions by evening, a bit milder in the late AM/early aft after another frosty early AM. We also had some conversational light wet snow in the mid-afternoon that fell through ground temps in the low 40s and upper 30s, so there was no accumulation. Temperatures are warming quickly into the low 40s not so early on this Sunday morning, with winds lessening overnight. The Saturday maximum temperature from the VP2 (43.3°) was recorded…

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Friday featured partly cloudy skies, colder afternoon temperatures and windy conditions at times. Temperatures are at the freezing mark very early this St Patrick’s Day morning, with winds lessening overnight. The Friday maximum temperature from the VP2 (41.9°) was recorded at 1510 while the minimum temperature (30.6°) was recorded at 0430. Dew point temperatures were a bit lower than yesterday, ranging from a high of 25° at 0048 down to a low of 14° at 0943. Relative humidity values rose…

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Tuesday featured partly cloudy skies (mostly fair weather cumulus developing in the “heat” of the day), and windy. We did manage to get into the low 40s for highs and an early AM just below freezing. Temperatures have held below freezing overnight into Wednesday, with winds lessening overnight as differential heating dropping under clear skies. The Tuesday maximum temperature from the VP2 (42.8°) was recorded at 1509 while the minimum temperature (30.4°) was recorded at 0737. Dew point temperatures were…

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On Monday, we had mostly cloudy skies, cold with temps holding in the 30s most of the day, just topping over the 40° in the late afternoon. A snowstorm was building to the S and W moving in on our area, but didn’t materialize anything more than a scant trace at my location, and never accumulating on the ground, even on the grass that I saw. Other locations in the region got as much as 1-2 inches, and a lot…

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On Sunday, we had some sun at times and some clouds at other times with seasonably cool afternoon temperatures after one more frosty early AM with temps in the mid 20s. A clear, milder evening with temps holding in the 30s overnight into Monday morning. Remember, we are now on Daylight Savings Time so all time references from now on will be in Daylight Savings Time (DST). Mid 40s was reached by later afternoon after mid-upper 20s mins were reached…

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On Saturday, we had plenty of sun at times (see today’s featured image taken during my GLOBE observations in the late morning of a solitary cumulus cloud (enlarged) in the otherwise clear sky at the time) but generally partly cloudy skies and colder early AM temperatures and milder afternoon temperatures than yesterday. A clear, colder evening, with temps eventually falling below freezing but not till way after midnight obs into now the Daylight Savings Time hours of Sunday. Time references…

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