West Rockville MD Weather

Saturday featured one last burst of rain in the very early AM hours (0.22″ – max rain rate 0.56″/hour @ 0327), then clearing the rest of the day with full sun by late afternoon after a round of fair weather cumulus dotted the sky earlier in the afternoon. It was still humid all day. Overnight into Sunday clear skies, humid, but void of rain to start a dry trend for the next few days. Temperatures remained in the low 70s,…

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Friday was once again humid, but once again not too warm with all the cloudiness around with a heavy shower falling between 1830 and 1930 (most of the daily total of 0.52″ fell during this hour) . Overnight into Friday clouds, high dew points mostly remained but rain managed to fall elsewhere. Temperatures remained in the low 70s, with dew points about the same. The Friday maximum temperature was 82.1° @ 1532, while the Friday minimum temperature was 71.5° @…

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Thursday was once again humid, but not too warm with all the cloudiness around and light showers right after midnight and then in the mid-afternoon (0.05″) . Overnight into Thursday the heavy showers/storms from late Wednesday night carried over into the first few minutes of the day, then shut down. Temperatures remained in the low 70s, with dew points about the same. The Thursday maximum temperature was 81.0° @ 1320, while the Thursday minimum temperature was 71.0° @ 0618. The…

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As promised with the beginning of August, I have returned to my old format. For those of you who got used to my recent “cocorahs-based” reports, I have included it at the end of this message. There is necessarily a lot of overlapping information here, but this will only last for a few days till the transition is completed. Any questions please let me know. Wednesday was warm, humid, and continued the wet pattern of July to get a kick-start…

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The weekdays ahead looks mostly cloudy, warm, humid with high temps in the low to mid 80s, low temps around 70°, with thunderstorms Wednesday night, Thursday and Friday (80 POP). Partly cloudy skies, little chance (20 POP) for rain, high temps in the mid-upper 80s, lows around 70° over the weekend. Daily Precipitation Report Station Number: MD-MG-115 Station Name: Rockville 2.8 WNW Observation Date 7/31/2018 11:59 PM Submitted 8/01/2018 10:25 PM Total Precip Amount 0.04 in. Notes High temp 80.3°…

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The week ahead looks partly cloudy to cloudy, high temps in the low to mid 80s, low temps around 70°, with scattered thunderstorms Tuesday and Wednesday (50 POP) and more widespread thunderstorms and showers on Thursday (80 POP) and Friday (90 POP) with gradually improving conditions over the weekend.   Daily Precipitation Report Station Number: MD-MG-115 Station Name: Rockville 2.8 WNW Observation Date 7/30/2018 11:59 PM Submitted 7/31/2018 4:47 PM Total Precip Amount 0.39 in. Notes High temp 76.7° Low…

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Daily Precipitation Report Station Number: MD-MG-115 Station Name: Rockville 2.8 WNW Observation Date 7/29/2018 11:59 PM Submitted 7/30/2018 5:52 AM Total Precip Amount 0.00 in. Notes High temp 84.2° @ 1614 Low temp 66.3° @ 0554 Midnight observation Partly cloudy, warm, relatively dry, temp 72.8°, dew point temperature 66.6°, relative humidity 81%, barometric pressure 30.13″ R During Sunday, skies were partly cloudy, moderately humid, with seasonable temps. Not too bad for my birthday. Today’s featured image is of yours truly with…

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Daily Precipitation Report Station Number: MD-MG-115 Station Name: Rockville 2.8 WNW Observation Date 7/27/2018 11:59 PM Submitted 7/29/2018 4:00 AM Total Precip Amount 0.16 in. Notes High temp 89.2° @ 1440 Low temp 69.2° @ 2358 Midnight observation Partly cloudy, cooler, still damp, temp 69.2°,                                                                       …

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Today’s Featured image is another from Thursday afternoon at my rain gauge site, looking east. Still dry with mostly sunny skies – first time since last Friday. The air was still humid, but not as humid as it has been the past five days with the constant cloudiness, frequent rain, light fog, drizzle that keep the air temperatures and dew point temperatures just about the same (usually 1° from each other). I was outside for a while in the early…

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2018-06-Rockville-2.8-WNW   June 2018 featured near normal rainfall and temperatures at my station, extrapolated from statistics compiled at the three major airports in the DC area and published in the June NWS PRESTO report. There were a few short hot spells with max temps of 90 or more (18th-19th and 29th-30th) but generally pleasantly cool temps most of the other days, particularly during the first half of the month (7 days with maximum temperatures less than 80° with 1 day…

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