Thursday started out mild and cloudy with showers scattered lightly around the region (but not at my location). Please note that due to earlier browser problems I didn’t have access to my exact data directly from my VP2 for Thursday extremes as normally shown. I employed a backup I have at my disposal from my daily weather underground station data. It usually runs pretty close. I will be checking that against the actual which I can read now but don’t have the time to analyze right now, but later when I do if I find anything significantly different I will post about it.

The mild temps continued into the afternoon under partly cloudy skies with the warmest max temp since November 6, almost reaching the 60° mark. Temps started in the low 40s. Dew points were about the same as yesterday, from the low 30s to the lower-mid 40s. At 0800 we have clear, sunny skies with only a jet contrail otherwise owning a very small piece of the sky. Temperatures are in the upper 30s. The Thursday minimum temperature from the VP2 (42.6°) was recorded at 0634 while the maximum temperature (58.6°) was recorded at 1320. Dew point temps ranged from 32° up to 43°. Relative humidity values lowered a bit today (85% – 46%). Barometric values dropped from yesterday, ranging from a high of 30.11″ at 2106 bottoming out earlier with 29.89″ at 1244.

Remember now you can get the VP2 data on Weatherlink. You can access the data through http://www.weatherlink.com/user/walrusman444. I am also now on weather underground. My ID is KMDROCKV200 and my station is called “Gardens of Traville.” Data is online, normally just about in real-time.

I got some good feedback on the article (link) I posted on the Appalachian Storm of November 1950, only 4 months after I was born. I talked again with Marty about a variety of weather and other topics, particularly about the narrow miss we had early on Thursday with the area rain showers that missed both of our stations, despite the radar echoes we were seeing right over our locations. 

We are clear/sunny this morning with temps in the upper 30s and a bit breezy at times. Turning a bit cooler on Friday during the day with highs around 50° and lows in the mid 30s under sunny skies. Saturday will be variably cloudy with highs in the mid 50s and a 40 POP for rain showers with lows in the low 40s. Partly cloudy and a bit cooler on Sunday, with highs in the upper 40s and lows in the upper 20s. Sunny on Monday with highs in the mid 40s and lows in the low 30s. Tuesday should have partly cloudy skies with temps warming up again into the mid 50s, lows in the upper 30s.

On the Channel 4 weather website at 0800 radar is pretty clear over most of the Eastern U.S. with just a few light snow showers over parts of the Great Lakes and high mountains to my west over western MD and the high country of WV.

As of 0800, the data from the VP2 (coming from the ground radiation shield about 4 feet off the ground just under and out from the balcony) and the Lakewood WXBug station are as follows :

Station Relative Location Temp RH DP   BP     Wind High/Low temp today
VP2           Ground          40.0  71 31 30.22R   NA    58.6/42.6

There was no precipitation in my cocorahs gauge on Thursday through midnight. The VP2 tipping bucket rain gauge under my balcony also didn’t record any precipitation through midnight obs on Thursday.

November precipitation is 1.91″.

Year-to-date precipitation total is now 38.32″

WX Bug Lakewood 4500 ft, 40 67 29 30.19R Calm G SW 8
                            140° from station 60/42

The Lakewood rain gauge recorded no rain through midnight on Thursday. The monthly total showing is 1.95″ based on data from the Weatherbug 10 app on my phone with some of the values estimated from radar.

Temp from the VP2 at 2400 was 42.9 RH 66% BP 30.11R DP 32.3. Clear and seasonable at midnight.

Good morning from the sunny and dry Walrus early on this Friday.