Kevin Shaw


  • I really did have remarkably similar statistics today compared with yesterday, same high temperature, very close dew point and relative humidity values, and similar partly cloudy, dry conditions. I had plenty of […]

  • Now that we finally cleared Dorian out of our area, we had a pretty nice Saturday, a bit warmer with a lot more sun with just fair-weather cumulus dotting the sky at times (see today’s featured image) and a bit […]

  • Finally Friday was the day that Hurricane Dorian paid our area a visit, albeit quite a mild one. Clouds from the outermost bands of Dorian kept us cool and breezy through mid-afternoon, then as it moved off to the […]

  • Thursday was quite a changeable day as Hurricane Dorian inched northward along the East Coast, with its initial outermost bands of circulation entered our region today (see today’s featured image). Skies were […]

  • Wednesday was partly sunny, significantly warmer and more humid, still dry though isolated showers did fall in parts of the region, though nothing fell at my station. The morning started out with a stratus […]

  • Tuesday was sunny, a tad less warm and a bit less humid, and dry. High temperatures reached the low 80s by mid-afternoon, with lows for the day in the early AM in the mid 60s. Dew point temperatures ranged from […]

  • Labor Day Monday was partly cloudy, warmer and more humid than yesterday with a thunderstorm in the late afternoon (1700-1730 approx – heaviest at about 1710 – total for the day 0.39 inches). High temperatures […]

  • Sunday was the beginning of September and with it the promise of cooler fall weather eventually. The day was partly sunny, dry, a bit cooler, still moderately humid with some light rain in the area in the […]

  • Saturday was a partly sunny, dry day, a tad cooler, still moderately humid (a bit more than yesterday).  High temperatures reached the lower mid 80s by mid-afternoon after a not as cool early AM with mins in the […]

  • Friday was a mostly sunny, dry day, warmer, moderately humid as yesterday, but still relatively pleasant. High temperatures reached the mid 80s by mid-afternoon after a cool early AM with mins in the upper 50s, […]

  • Thursday was a sunny, dry day, a tad warmer, enough to break a 6 day streak of sub 80 degree max temps (using rounded to the nearest degree values) but gradually less humid and generally pleasant.  High t […]

  • Wednesday was mostly cloudy, a tad warmer and more humid as our pleasant weather changed into a bit of uncomfortable higher dew points that prompted me to put the A/C on again. We had mid-afternoon showers (0.31 […]

  • Well once again I got really busy, mostly with compiling and disseminating my July weather summary and a shopping order plus a few grocery store visits that I have been remiss on posting my daily weather updates […]

  • JULY 2019 MONTHLY SUMMARY ROCKVILLE 2.8 WNW MARYLAND
    by Kevin Shaw, Observer

    July 2019 was wetter and warmer than normal. My max temp (89.0°) was 2.7° above normal and my min temp (69.9°) was even a bit mo […]

  • Thursday was not quite as hot as earlier in the week with temps rising into the upper 80s due to more clouds than sun and stormy evening periods in evening, still quite humid into the evening with the storm. We […]

  • Wednesday had not quite as hot temps rising into the upper 80s due to more clouds than sun and rainy periods in the late afternoon and early evening, still quite humid mid-day but a bit less humid very early in […]

  • Tuesday once again featured hot temps rising into the low 90s, quite humid during the early afternoon hours but a bit less humid very early in the day and late in the evening. We had a few light thunderstorm cells […]

  • Monday once again featured hot temps rising into the low 90s, quite humid during the mid-day hours but a bit less humid very early in the day. We had a thunderstorm warned storm in the late evening that tracked […]

  • Sunday featured hotter temps rising into the low 90s, quite humid during the mid-day hours but once again drying out some late in the evening after a surprise thunderstorm between about 2100-2200. High temps […]

  • Saturday featured warmer temps approaching the 90 mark, humid during the mid-day hours but drying out some in the evening. High temps reached the upper 80s after a warmer, muggy overnight in the upper low 70s. […]

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