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Once again I had trouble uploading any image on my blog page, so I have had to post my daily weather update here as I did a few days ago. To post this page I have had to get rid of all the usual links I have in my post.

Well once again I got overwhelmed and must make a 2 day post here as a condensed single post.

Mostly sunny, warm, dry Wednesday, July 10 and stormy, warm, humid, showery Thursday, July 11, 2019 update for West Rockville Maryland
Wednesday was mostly sunny, seasonably warm and humid but without any rain.  I had an early AM min in the upper 60s, rising to the upper mid 80s by the mid-late afternoon, falling down only into the muggy mid 70s by midnight observation time. The dew point temperature started out in the mid 60s in the early AM rising up to the low 70s by mid-day before slowly sliding down back into the mid 60s by the late evening.

The maximum temperature was 87.7 degrees at 1656.

The minimum temperature was 68.2 degrees at 0623.

The dew point temperatures ranged from a low of 66 degrees @ 0455 up to a high of 72 degrees @ 1230.

The relative humidity values ranged from a high of 94% @ 0710 down to a low of 56% @ 1550.

The barometric pressure ranged from a high of 30.09 inches @ 0005 down to a low of 29.97 inches @ 2040.

There was no precipitation on Wednesday. A total of 5.27 inches of rain has been recorded in July. The year-to-date total is 27.93 inches.

Thursday was a tad warmer and more humid with lots of clouds most of the day, especially during the numerous rounds of showers and thundershowers (0.48 inches total) that occurred during the afternoon and early evening before sunset.  The early morning min was in the low 70s, rising into the upper 80s by early afternoon before the clouds and rain moved in then dropped to the very low 70s by midnight observation time. The dew point temperature started out in the upper mid 60s in the very early AM then rose into the very muggy upper 70s by mid-day ahead of the precipitation, then dropped into the upper 60s by midnight observation.

The maximum temperature was 88.6 degrees at 1300.

The minimum temperature was 70.8 degrees at 2359.

The dew point temperatures ranged from a low of 67 degrees @ 0000 up to a high of 78 degrees @ 1155.

The relative humidity values ranged from a low of 68% @ 0046 up to a high of 95% @ 2048.

The barometric pressure ranged from a high of 29.99 inches @ 0002 down to a low of 29.78 inches @ 1805.

There was 0.48 inches of precipitation on Thursday, mostly during the afternoon and evening before sunset. There is now a total of 5.75 inches of rain being reported for July. The year-to-date total is now 28.41 inches.

My current online data (except for rainfall/snowfall – use the cocorahs link shown below for that dataset) is showing regularly on Weather Underground. My data is posted there every 5 minutes. My ID is KMDROCKV200 and my station is called “Gardens of Traville.” Data is online, available in real-time as it is being updated on a 5 minute interval.

I contribute my precipitation data daily to CoCoRaHS as Rockville 2.8 WNW, Station ID MD-MG-115.

Please remember that my Weather Underground precipitation data reflects what is recorded automatically through the tipping bucket VP2 gauge, just as it does on WxLink 2.0. The tipping bucket has been producing erratic values every day of late so should not be used except for general precipitation timing.

I actually use the data I post to CoCoRaHS from my 4 inch CoCoRaHS gauge I read manually as my “official” precipitation total each day.

On Wednesday I ate left over brats from Tuesday, similarly garnished with onions, mustard and cheese slices, and on Thursday I made spaghetti and meatballs with zucchini and mushrooms and grated parmesan cheese for dinner. I had a sausage egg and cheese muffin on Wednesday for breakfast, and then had cereal and banana on Thursday. Baseball was still on All Star Break on Wednesday but they managed to sneak one game in on Thursday night that I caught a bit of with Texas topping Houston. 

We have a succession of seasonably warm days ahead through Tuesday, with high temps in the upper 80s to low 90s by day and in the upper 60s to lower 70s by overnight low temps. Partly to mostly sunny skies should dominate with little to no chances of rain. Later next week we may get paid a visit of the remnants of tropical storm Barry, which is scheduled to make landfall on the Louisiana coast by Saturday morning and then slowly track north and east possibly giving us some rain on Thursday and/or Friday. 

Midnight Thursday recorded a temperature of 70.8°, relative humidity 95%, pressure steady at 29.81 inches and a dew point temperature of 69.3° under clearing skies.

Currently at 0923 the temperature is 75.5° under mostly sunny skies, relative humidity at 86%, barometric pressure rising at 29.85 inches, and the dew point temperature at 71°.

Good morning from the walrus on this sunny Friday. I am having problems loading today’s featured image into this post. Not being able to do that is keeping me from posting this update on my blog page. So I will have to do a makeshift update on the activity page and also on FACEBOOK, much as I did the other day.