West Rockville MD Weather

The “heat wave” continues as July begins. We easily topped the 90° mark today. In fact our 94.8° high today was the hottest temperature so far this year. We had a brilliantly sunny day, with a strong heat ridge over much of the Eastern US. The sinking air inhibits much if any cloud development. Overnight into Monday skies have remained clear with lows near sunrise staying in the mid 70s. The Sunday maximum temperature was 94.8° @ 1638, while the…

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The “heat wave” continues as June comes to a close! We easily topped the 90° mark today for a grand total of 4 days of doing that during June. At least we had another day of slightly cooler AM min temps in the upper 60s. We had a brilliantly sunny day, with a strong heat ridge over most of the Eastern US. The sinking air inhibits much if any cloud development. Overnight into Sunday skies remained clear with a bit…

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The heat revved up some more on Friday, topping the 90° mark for only the third time this month with highs just above the 90° mark but with slightly cooler AM min temps in the upper 60s. Clouds were lacking for the most part, esp in the morning, but some fair weather cumulus started to develop in the afternoon. Overnight into Saturday skies remained clear to at most partly cloudy with lows by sunrise in the upper 60s. The Friday…

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The heat started to come in on Thursday, but not too badly on this first day with highs in the mid 80s but lows in the warm low 70s, which was only the fourth time during the month. Clouds were lacking for the most part, esp in the morning, but some fair weather cumulus started to develop in the afternoon. Overnight into Friday skies remained clear to at most partly cloudy with lows by sunrise in the upper 60s. The…

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Wednesday was a partly cloudy day with increasing dew points and temps just a bit lower than yesterday. Storms and showers were in the area, but except for a very light shower in the early AM (0.01″) no rain fell the rest of the day, though it did rain in other locations in the area. Temperatures only fell to the upper-mid 60s in the early AM but rose to the upper 70s by late afternoon. We only cooled off a…

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Tuesday was a partly cloudy day with the now usual fair-weather cumulus dotting the sky fairly comfortable light breezes and mostly dry conditions, particularly early in the day. Temperatures fell to the lower-mid 60s in the early AM but rose to the lower 80s by early afternoon, then slowly cooling thereafter into the evening. Overnight into Wednesday skies have clouded up in advance of the 80 POP for thunderstorms during the day from cells still well to our west out…

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Monday had clear skies early, then partly cloudy, fair-weather clouds and comfortable light breezes and slowly dropping dew points for a good start to the workweek. Temperatures held in the upper 60s in the early AM but rose to around the 80° mark by early afternoon, slowly cooling thereafter into the evening. Overnight into Monday skies cleared and cooled into the lower-mid 60s just after sunrise. Temperatures have warmed up into the low 80s with partly cloudy (fair-weather cumulus) skies…

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Sunday started out somewhat cloudy, but not foggy like yesterday, though still muggy. We had a muggy, warmer PM with late afternoon storm cloud buildups that finally led to a light shower between 1945-2000 (0.01″) but I heard no thunder. Really interesting, menacing-looking clouds raced through in the early evening despite the light rainfall (see today’s featured image – looking east from my bedroom window). I was on the western edge of a strong line that extended ENE from my…

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Saturday started out in the very early AM with clouds and light showers (0.08″ daily total, most fell between 0055-0210), then around sunrise very damp with light-moderate fog and mild, evolving into a partly cloudy, milder PM and drier despite threatening skies at times and flooding rains elsewhere in the region. Temperatures held in the 60s in the AM but rose into the upper 70s by late afternoon. Overnight into Sunday skies stayed partly cloudy, damp but without any observable…

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Friday was a cloudy, cooler, wet day with persistent light showers (0.22″) off and on most of the day. Temperatures held mostly in the 60s all day after initial low 70s in the very early AM. Overnight into Saturday skies were cloudy, with temps dropping into the mid 60s by sunrise, covered by a low stratus deck of fog and low clouds. Temperatures should warm up into the lower 80s with perhaps some sun amongst the clouds, but with an…

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