Monday was mostly cloudy, not as warm but more humid than Sunday. Light showers fell in the early afternoon (0.13″ – max rain rate 0.07″/hour at 1333). High temperatures were muted due to the clouds and light rain with temperatures topping off in the mid 70s. At about 0400 we have partly cloudy skies with temperatures in the mid 60s. The minimum temperature (68.6°) was recorded just before obs tonight at 2324 and the maximum temperature (76.1°) was recorded at 0000. Dew point temperatures rose some more today, ranging from 70° to 63°. Relative humidity values were higher than yesterday (87% – 63%). Barometric values lowered today, ranging from 29.79″ at 0012 to 29.65″ at 2243.

Remember that you now can get the balcony location data on Weatherlink. You can access the data through http://www.weatherlink.com/user/walrusman444

I got up in the late afternoon as I got another good uninterrupted period of overnight sleep, complete with a wild dream about a long walk in the woods where I used to live, meeting up and walking with some people who I didn’t know, and then getting into a real mess crossing the train tracks that were flooded. I did catch up a bit on my words with friends games and checked on messages from bed before I got up. I took a shower, then started a dinner thereafter, which was really good – Mrs Paul’s Crab Cakes, baked in the oven with fresh squeezed lemon, plus cheddar broccoli rice a roni embellished with two big mushrooms (sliced), along with a big pile of cut green beans (microwaved).  I also had regular low sodium V8 before dinner and a few triscuits and a klondike bar for dessert.  I watched  bit of baseball, hockey and wrestling action.  I continued  to  work a bit more on the newly “hatched” Weatherquack weather website which should be fun in the coming months. I refined my daily weather post on the blog, getting a nice picture included, plus a few other miscellaneous items tied up.  I hope some of you out there will join in the fun – it is completely free and easy to use once you complete your registration and a short ramping up period.  I also drank a good part of my ginormous water bottle throughout the evening and early morning hours.

According to Channel 4 radar, there is a line of showers/storm running through central PA and parts of NY heading east towards NJ and New England, so they will not affect my area. There also are some showers out in the Atlantic Ocean off the North Carolina coast.

As of 0425 EDT, my balcony data, the USG station across the street, and the Lakewood Country Club WXBug station is:

Station     Relative Location      Temp    RH    DP         BP        Wind   High/Low temp today
VP2                 Balcony                65.9    89     63       29.66S    N/A    76.1/68.6

There was 0.13″ of rain in my gauge today (cocorahs gauge on ground to the side of my building).

June precipitation is now at 0.13″.  Year-to-date (YTD) precipitation total 16.34″

VP2  Across the street (USG)     64.4     94    63       29.70S    N/A   76.1/67.7    

There was 0.08″ of rain recorded in the USG gauge on Monday. The max rain rate was 0.07″/hour recorded at 1333.    

WX Bug     Lakewood 4500 ft,     M       M      M            M          M       G   M
140° from station                                                             76/67

The Lakewood rain gauge recorded 0.06″ or rainfall today. The weatherbug 10 link I use to access their data has not been working the past few hours.

Temp on the balcony at 2400 was 76.1 RH 63% BP 29.78F  DP 63.1

Good morning from the partly cloudy, humid, mild Walrus early on this Tuesday.