Saturday featured an increasingly cloudy day, a bit cooler than yesterday as a weak front approached from the west at day’s close. Temperatures started out in the upper-low 30s in the very early AM, then rose to around 50 by mid-afternoon, then leveled off in the evening into the low 40s/upper30s. Dew points were in the 30s all day. At 1108 we have sunny skies with temperatures in the upper 40s. The clouds we had a few hours ago when we had some light rain (0.02″) around 0615 have passed off to the E and SE. The Saturday minimum temperature from the VP2 (33.8°) was recorded at 0209 while the maximum temperature (50.2°) was recorded at 1530. Dew point temps ranged from 39° down to 31°. Relative humidity values were higher than yesterday (89% – 63%). Barometric values rose some from yesterday’s values, ranging from a high of 30.33″ at 0805 down to 30.20″ at 2359.

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 contribute daily to cocorahs as Rockville 2.8 WNW, Station ID MD-MG-115.

Unfortunately Wisconsin lost 27-21 in the Big 10 Championship game held at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis IN in the heart of Big 10 country which I watched with friends at my daughter’s bar where she works.  Also unfortunately I left my cell phone at home, so Marty, Ray and Robin could not reach me during the game, so were worried that something might have happened with me, since I usually keep in touch during the Badger games.  My late apartment return after the game was about 0100, and what that did was cause me to miss my usual data collection activity just prior to midnight. I had to take the longer, more painstaking route of meticulously going through my weatherlink spreadsheet of daily data to find the extremes for the day. Accessing my weather underground data first to give me a heads up on the numbers and times helped out some, but I had to fine tune that data with weatherlink data which is collected at a 5 minute interval unlike weather underground daily data which is posted every 20-30 minutes.

We have sunny skies at this point in the morning with temps in the upper 40s. The clouds from earlier this morning have moved off to the east. We should have partly sunny skies on Sunday, highs in the mid 50s with lows around the freezing mark. Monday should have sunny skies with scattered clouds at times with highs in the mid 50s and lows warming up to the lower 40s. Tuesday looks to have cloudy skies with a 90 POP for PM rain, with highs in the upper 50s and lows in the upper-mid 30s. Wednesday clears out by the afternoon and cooler, with highs in the upper-mid 40s and lows in the upper 20s. This should be the beginning of a colder pattern thereafter heading through the rest of the week and into the weekend. Thursday should be partly cloudy with highs in the mid 40s and lows in the mid 20s. Further details on this change, including increasing chances for snow, will be unfolding over the next several days.

On the Channel 4 weather website at 1108 their radar is showing our earlier light showers have moved east over parts of the Maryland Eastern Shore and southern Delawa along with areas offshore further to the south from SE VA to coastal North Carolina. ac.

As of 1108, 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           48.2  83 43  30.24R    NA      50.2/33.8

There was no precipitation in my cocorahs gauge on Saturday through midnight. The VP2 tipping bucket rain gauge under my balcony also did not record any precipitation through midnight obs on Saturday. However, since midnight it has collected 0.02″ of rain. This amount won’t be reflected in my monthly precipitation amount until Sunday’s report is published.

December precipitation is 0.00″ through midnight obs Saturday.

Year-to-date precipitation total is 38.51″

WX Bug Lakewood 4500 ft, 48 82 43 30.25R Calm G WNW 9
                              140° from station                        51/32

The Lakewood rain gauge recorded no rain through midnight on Saturday. So far for Sunday it is reporting 0.04″ of rain. Their year-to-date precipitation total is 39.34″, partially estimated from radar.

Temp from the VP2 at 2400 was 39.0 RH 88% BP 30.20F DP 36. Cloudy but still dry at midnight. Overnight low 37.6 at 0143.

Good morning from the sunny and drying out Walrus early on this Sunday morning.