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Today is gloomy and damp with some light fog.  Scattered showers are appearing on radar but we haven’t had any rain yet.  If we do get some, I don’t think it will be much.  We really don’t need any but Mother Na […]

Wednesday was cloudy once again, with some early morning fog, but cooler and damp as rain did fall in the area, less than yesterday, but still quite lightly (.03″). I only reached the upper 60s for today’s high […]

Tuesday was mostly cloudy and still quite mild and humid as rain did fall in the area a bit more than yesterday but still lightly (.14″). I reached the upper 70s for today’s high with dew points holding mostly in […]

We really lucked out with our fire season west of the Cascades this year. After one of the driest springs and hottest/driest summers on record, vegetation was incredibly dry and the environment incredibly […]

Monday was mostly cloudy and warmer and more humid as rain fell in the area but very little here (.01″). I reached the low 80s once again for today’s high with dew points holding in the mid-upper 60s to 70 midday. […]

This has been a dark and gloomy, wet day since the beginning.  The rain has been intermittent but with the humidity and high dew point, the air feels very wet even when the rain isn’t falling.  There were s […]

Sunday was partly cloudy and warmer and more humid as rain draws nearer. I reached the low 80s for today’s high with dew points rising from the upper 50s through to
the upper 60s .We peaked with our max […]

Rain developed late last night and has continued through our morning.  There was 0.08″ in my gauge at 8:30 and we have received another 0.01″ since then.  The sky looks quite threatening but isn’t producing much p […]

Saturday was partly cloudy and a bit warmer but still not too bad. I reached the mid 70s for today’s high with dew points starting to creep up into the low 60s. We peaked with our max temperature (75.0) of the day […]

Friday started the month of October in fine fashion with another beautifully sunny, cool, dry day. I failed to reach the 70 mark for today’s high with dew points in the upper 40s to mid 50s all day. We peaked with […]

Thursday was another beautifully sunny, cool, dry day to put a conclusion to the very changeable month of September 2021. I barely reached the 70 mark for today’s high with dew points in the 50s all day. We peaked […]

Wednesday was a beautifully sunny, cool, dry day. It was the coolest day of the fall so far as it was the first day with a maximum temperature below 70°. I only reached the upper 60s for highs with dew points […]

2021 was one of the warmer overall summers for the state of Maryland dating back to 1895, mostly due to much-above-average Minimum Temperatures. Here are the statewide rankings for various temperature categories, […]

Tuesday was mostly cloudy, a tad cooler but remarkably dry despite threatening skies. I reached the mid 70s for the high with dew points mostly in the 60s all day. We peaked with our max temperature (75.8) of the […]

On 9/27/2021, the official Downtown Portland weather station recorded a record daily rainfall total of 1.79″. This amount was also the second highest September calendar-day total dating back to 1872, a period of […]

Today is a little cooler than yesterday but still very pleasant.  Some areas reported a little rain overnight and my weather station is showing one lightning strike 17 miles away.  That was a surprises since I w […]

Monday was partly sunny and milder but dry. I reached the mid-upper 70s for the high with dew points in the 50s all day. We peaked with our max temperature (77.6) of the day in the mid afternoon down to the mid […]

Oh how I love days like this in the fall.  It is sunny, warm and breezy.  We had a few sprinkles of rain yesterday and there were clouds most of the day, and it was quite windy all night long.  Today looks to be […]