West Rockville MD Weather

I got busy with post Halloween and end of month weather activities so I have to combine Friday and Saturday weather observations and my usual commentary into this one message early on this Sunday morning. After all the storm activity on Halloween and the cold front blew through, the skies cleared, the temperatures dropped, and the winds continued strong into Friday morning but slowly abated through the later part of the day and into Saturday. High temperatures both on Friday…

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On Thursday, we had cloudy skies all day, with a bit milder temperatures in the morning and much milder in the afternoon and evening, and evening heavy rain in thunderstorms (1.78 inches). A tornado watch was posted for a good part of the afternoon and evening till midnight. Severe thunderstorm and flood warnings were posted at various times during the evening. The highs reached the mid 70s by mid-evening just prior to the storms coming in after lows in the mid-upper…

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On Wednesday, we had cloudy skies all day, with a bit milder temperatures, and evening light rain (0.38 inches). The highs reached the mid 60s by mid-afternoon after lows in the mid 50s degrees in the very early morning hours then only dropped into the upper 50s by midnight observation time with the light rain. Dew point temperatures obce again held in the 50s all day. The maximum temperature was 64.9 degrees at 1417. The minimum temperature was 56.0 degrees…

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On Tuesday, we had mostly cloudy skies most of the day, save for the very early AM hours, a bit milder temperatures, and dry conditions all day .The highs reached the mid 60s by mid-afternoon after lows in the mid 50s degrees in the early morning then once again dropped into the mid 50s by midnight observation time. Dew point temperatures held in the low-mid 50s most all day The maximum temperature was 63.9 degrees at 1542. The minimum temperature was…

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On Monday, we had sunny, drying out conditions and cooler temperatures . The highs reached the mid 60s by mid-afternoon after lows around 50 degrees in the morning then only dropped into the upper mid 50s by midnight observation time. Dew point temperatures dropped into the upper mid 40s in the morning, rising back a bit into the mid 50s by late evening.  The maximum temperature was 66.1 degrees at 1626. The minimum temperature was 50.5 degrees at 0744. The dew point…

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On Sunday, we had cloudy, mild and very wet conditions (1.17 inches total) during most of the morning with the heaviest rain falling around 1000, then it turned sunny, warm, and somewhat muggy in the afternoon , gradually turning cooler during the evening. The highs reached the mid 70s by mid-afternoon after lows in the upper 50s at the very beginning of the day before the rain came in, and also reaching that level by midnight observation time at the end…

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I will try to post a brief summary of the missing days here in October sometime soon, but for now I want to just update the precipitation amounts on days it actually rained from October 7 through October 25. I am adding a day on October 13. October 9 0.08″ October 13 0.01″  October 16 1.28″ October 20 1.06″ (Dense Fog noted around obs time) October 22 0.56″ (Dense Fog noted around obs time and thereafter into the early AM…

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I am sorry not to have posted here since October 6. A new station went up across the street and was interfering with my station signal. My friend Marty came over on Friday and fixed things up, so now my weather station console and wxlink connection that uploads to the internet through weather underground and CWOP is now uploading my station data from its traditional location below my apartment rather than from the 60 foot high station on the roof…

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I had a busy weekend so I haven’t posted since Thursday. So I will do my usual condensed all-in-one report for the past three days.  On Friday, cooler, drier air moved in with evening temperatures dropping into the low 50s by midnight after highs in the mid 70s in the mid-afternoon under clearing partly cloudy skies. Dew point temperatures dropped all day, from the upper 60s at the very beginning of the day down to the upper 30s by late…

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Thursday was much cooler, cloudy, and slightly damp with a trace of afternoon sprinkles, low temps around 70 in the evening after highs at the very beginning of the day of around 80 with a PM Max of 76.6 degrees at 1405. Dew point temperatures remained in the 60s all day, starting in the mid 60s at midnight and rising into the upper 60s by mid-morning and remaining there the rest of the day.  The maximum temperature was 77.7 degrees at…

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