Kevin Shaw

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 t […]

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 prec […]

Pleasant autumn temperatures have arrived for this first half of October period, particularly 40s minimums. The rain has been a bit below normal but not terribly dry like in much of September with a total of 1.05″ […]

September 2020 was actually a tad cooler but a bit drier than normal. My maximum temperature average (74.5°) was actually 2.6° below normal which was enough to overcome my minimum temperature average of 59.4° […]

The heat has left us, hopefully for good, during this mid-September month period. The rain also left us as the 0.08″ that fell from the weak TS Sally remains was the only measurable rain that fell during the […]

The heat from July and August continues to reduce as we head into September but with dew points generally remaining high as tropical moisture is still quite
persistently hanging on.

This first third of […]

The relentless heat from July stayed away during this last August period. but the dew points remained high through most of the days till the last few days with dew 
points dropping into the 50s to foreshadow the […]

The heat and high dew points from July have left us as significant high heat continues to stay away so far in August. Dew point temps remained high during the first half of the period, peaking well into the […]

The heat and high dew points from July have partially left us as extreme heat has not resurfaced so far in August. However dew point temps remain high, peaking well into the 70s at the beginning and end of this […]

The heat and high dew points left from the first half of July carried forward through the rest of July. From July 16-31, dew point temps remained high, peaking during the hottest days of the period (19-20) […]

The heat and high dew points left from the tail end of June carried forward into the first half of the month of July.  But not to the extreme that the official Washington DC DCA station has recorded, as their […]

Our wetter patterns from earlier in the month “washed out” a bit during this end of the month period with only 2 significantly rainy days (both featuring
thunderstorms) with warm, increasingly more humid days […]

May 2020 was cooler and drier than normal. My maximum temperature average (69.9°) was 3.9° below normal but my minimum temperature average (53.1°) was still a bit above normal (+1.3°), resulting in the mean tem […]

Our wetter patterns during the beginning of June resumed from the 17th-20th after a five day stretch of cool, cloudy, dry, rather pleasant weather conditions from the 13th-16th. 70s max temps prevailed on most […]

Our generally cooler and drier patterns of May transitioned into warmer and wetter conditions for the first third of June. 70s max temps began the month comfortably but abruptly changed to hot 90s on the third […]

Our generally cooler than normal pattern persisted over the last third of the month, with a few notable warm 80s max interludes. We continued to also be drier than normal though we did have 5 measurable rainfall […]

MONTHLY SUMMARY

April 2020 was cooler and wetter than normal. My maximum temperature average (61.9°) was 3.4° below normal but my minimum temperature average (43.6°) was still a bit above normal (+0.7°), res […]

Our continued cool pattern persisted over this second middle May period, but the rain stopped. We were totally dry for the 10 day period despite persistent cloudiness on most days. So we still have a total of 1.35 […]

Our wet, cool pattern continued through the last 10 days of April, highlighted by the rainstorm on the last day of the month. We had a total of 1.91 inches total of rainfall during this period, with 14.54 inches […]