I fell in my apartment earlier this week and had to go to the ER of the closest hospital to get checked out and fixed up. So that put a real delay in posting my daily weather. I will describe Saturday fully, and try to summarize briefly the data for Wednesday through Friday. Any data you want that I don’t send out just ask me for, and I will send it to you separately, including my usual personal notes if desired . Thank you.

Wednesday through Friday was seasonable to seasonably mild with high temps in the low 40s to low 50s and lows in the 30s. No rain fell. Limited statistics for each day will be listed below.

Saturday was a mostly cloudy, warmer day with occasional rain showers falling, the bulk of which fell between about 1745 and 1840. (max rain rate 1.39″/hour at 1750 – total day’s rain 0.36″). It was the warmest day of the month, a 61.6° max at 1732, just prior to our brief heavy rain. A strong warm surge of rain ahead of the LOW and cold frontal passage was the culprit. I once again remained above freezing overnight, only dropping into the mid 40s and also at the end of the observation day. The Saturday minimum temperature from the VP2 (43.3°) was recorded at 2339 while the maximum temperature (61.6°) was recorded at 1732. Dew point temperatures ranged from 59° at 1742 down to 38° at 2306. Relative humidity values raised rom yesterday’s values (96% – 80%). Barometric values also lowered from yesterday, ranging from a low of 29.65″ at 1417 up to 30.08″ later at 2322.

Wednesday through Friday brief summary statistics:

                            Temperatures                                Relative Humidity            Barometric Pressure                  Dew Point temps
Wed 12/20 High 51.2 @ 0326 Low 38.5 @ 2356 76% @ 0208 42% @ 1326 30.09″ @ 2331 29.96″ @ 0038 39 @ 0223 20 @ 2143
Thur 12/21 High 42.5 @ 0326 Low 30.8 @ 0221 72% @ 2317 45% @ 1326 30.29″ @ 1020 30.09″ @ 0000 27 @ 2347 20 @ 0046
Fri   12/22 High 49.5 @ 1408 Low 34.9 @ 0000 83% @ 1914 60% @ 1226 30.26″ @ 0215 30.08″ @ 2349 42 @ 2338 26 @ 0000

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. Please take note that Weather Underground does not report snow data, and reflects what is recorded automatically through the tipping bucket VP2 gauge.On Friday afternoon, my friend Marty helped me out with a number of medical, logistical and weather instrument issues. The weather instrument is my featured image today, the 36″ “snow drift stake” set in the ground right next to the Maryland flag visible from my balcony. I should be able to view how much snow I have to the nearest inch, perhaps half inch, whenever it snows here again, which looks to be soon. I will be getting better closer up and quality pictures of it in the coming days. 

Early Christmas Eve Sunday is mostly cloudy with temps cooling off into the mid 30s. Later on Christmas Eve looks to clear up somewhat (no rain) with highs in the mid 40s and lows around 30°. Christmas Day should be mostly sunny, colder and windy, with highs in the mid 30s and lows in the mid 20s. Tuesday looks partly cloudy with similar temperatures to Monday, then on Wednesday temperatures further cool off to a freezing high temp and mid teens low temps under mostly sunny skies. Thursday should be even colder, with highs in the mid-upper 20s and lows in the teems. No snow for Christmas, nor any most of the coming week. There may be some next weekend, however.

On the Channel 4 weather website at 0728 radar is some scattered showers over the Carolina coast and snow over parts of the Midwest, mostly in the states of IL, IA, MO and IN at this time. This snow may be moving eastward, but will take a long time to get here in either a weakened or dried up state (only clouds).

As of 0728, 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           38.0  81  33 30.20S   NA      61.6/43.3

There was 0.36″ of precipitation in the cocorahs gauge on Saturday. The VP2 tipping bucket rain gauge under my balcony registered 0.31″ of precipitation on Saturday through midnight. The maximum rain rate recorded on the VP2 was 1.39″ @ 1750.

December precipitation is 0.79″ through midnight obs Saturday.

December snowfall is now 3.3″. The seasonal snowfall total is 3.3″.

Year-to-date precipitation total is 39.30″

WX Bug Lakewood 4500 ft, 37 81 31 30.17F        Calm G NW 6
                              140° from station                          62/42

The Lakewood rain gauge reported 0.32″ of precipitation through midnight on Saturday. They are now reporting 0.74″ of precipitation falling up to this point in December, and a grand total of 40.08″ of rain for the year-to-date value. I believe over the past few days the country club has fixed these values more or less. If I ever get time, and for sure before the end of the month/year, I will be going in depth into their records to see if these values seem to be correct.

Temp from the VP2 at 2400 was 43.1 RH 81% BP 30.07S DP 37.7. Mostly cloudy, cooling down and slowly drying off

Good morning from the mostly cloudy, cooler, but snow-less Walrus early on this Sunday morning.