West Rockville MD Weather

January 2021 was milder and drier than normal. My maximum temperature average (41.3°) was 0.5° above normal but my minimum temperature average (30.1°) was much more significantly above normal (+ 5.6°), resulting in the mean temperature average of 35.9° to be 2.9° above normal. These are quite similar to my December 2020 temperature averages and departures. My total precipitation of 2.10″ was 0.81” below the normal January value for my station of 2.91”. There were 10 days with measurable precipitation,…

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December 2020 was warmer and wetter than normal. My maximum temperature average (45.7°) was 0.5° above normal but my minimum temperature average (32.7°) was much more significantly above normal (+ 4.5°), resulting in the mean temperature average of 39.2° to be 2.5° above normal. These are quite similar to my December 2019 temperature averages and departures. My total precipitation of 4.93″ was 1.83” above the normal December value for my station of 3.10”. There were 10 days with measurable precipitation,…

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NOVEMBER 2020 MONTHLY SUMMARY ROCKVILLE 2.8 WNW MARYLAND November 2020 temperatures were, as usual, above normal, still due to the more frequent trend of recent years of above normal average minimum temperatures (43.0° or 6.2° above normal) but not as much different as usual than the mean or max temperature differences. The average maximum temperature was also above normal (60.4° or 4.5° above normal). The resulting mean average temperature of 51.7° was 5.3° above normal. My total precipitation of 3.79″…

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A seasonably cool to mild, generally dry period covered the first half of December with the exception of the rainstorms on the 4th– 5th and 14th. Max temperatures mostly held in the 40s over the first 2/3 of the period followed by a brief mild 60s period later in the period before cooling down into the low-mid 40s at the end of the period with the big rain on the 14th and trailing cold air on the 15th. Mins held…

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A seasonably cool, generally dry period covered the last half of November with the exception of the rainstorm on the last day of the month (1.00”). Max temperatures mostly held in the 50s with mins mostly in the low-mid 40s but there were a few 30s and even upper 20s on a few days scattered through the period.   There were no thunderstorm days with 2 Sunny/Clear days, 7 Partly Cloudy and 6 Cloudy days. The minimum temperature for this…

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October 2020 temperatures were above normal, mostly due to the increasingly more frequent trend of recent years of well above normal average minimum temperatures (51.4° or 5.9° above normal). Essentially the average maximum temperature was normal (66.5° or 0.2° above normal). The resulting mean average temperature of 58.9° was 3.0° above normal. My total precipitation of 3.27″ was only 0.16” below the Prism-derived normal value for my station of 3.43”. I am still studying these normal monthly precipitation amounts as…

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A cool, slightly wet and notably windy start to the period, followed by several mild days into the low-mid 70s through the middle of the period, then a notably wet period towards the end of this group of days, with a really windy, unsettled but dry end highlighted this first half of November. Monthly rainfall so far (2.60”) was a bit above normal while temperatures were up and down but are running milder than normal. There were no thunderstorm days with…

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Several mild days into the low-mid 70s with dense early morning fog started the period with a big rainstorm from the remains of Tropical System Zeta (1.86” – our third wettest day of the year) near the end of the month highlighted this second half of October.  Monthly rainfall (3.27”) was just a bit below normal while temperatures wound up a bit above normal. There were no thunderstorm days with 1 Sunny/Clear day, 7 Partly Cloudy and 8 Cloudy days….

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The 1.86 inches of rain I recorded at my station on Thursday, October 29, 2020 was my third wettest day of the year, only surpassed by the amounts of 1.91” on August 4 and 2.89” on April 13.  My October total precipitation is now 3.09” which is almost normal after what had been quite a dry month for the first 28 days of the month, and a year-to-date total of 44.36” which is already at about the normal yearly average…

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