Tuesday was a mostly cloudy, milder day, with snow approaching and starting right around obs time at the end of the day. The Tuesday maximum temperature from the VP2 (38.0°) was recorded at 1517 while the minimum temperature (28.3°) was recorded at 0734. My dew point temperatures rose a bit more today, ranging from 25° at 1238 up to 29° at 2340. Relative humidity values remained fairly high alll day, similar to yesterday (91% – 61%). Barometric values lowered some from an AM high of 30.51″ at 0837 down to 30.37″ at 2358.

Remember now you can get the VP2 data on Weatherlink. You can access the data through http://www.weatherlink.com/user/walrusman444.

I am posting daily to 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 remember that Weather Underground does not report snow data, and reflects what is recorded automatically through the tipping bucket VP2 gauge.

I had lengthy calls from Ray and Marty about our upcoming small snow event tonight and tomorrow, among other weather topics. Unfortunately, it may be our last chance for snow till February with a long warm spell starting this weekend. Snow did start to fall just before midnight, and since midnight has fallen a bit on occasion, but nothing significant. 

We have cloudy skies now on this Wednesday morning with temperatures dropping slowly below the freezing mark and occasional snow showers continuing to fall. Snow showers should be moving out by late morning with slowly decreasing clouds and temperatures remaining below freezing in the upper 20s, lows in the upper teens, Thursday and Friday should start warming up again, with highs in the low-mid 40s and lows in the mid 20s, with sunny conditions both days. Warming up further with sunny to partly cloudy skies over the weekend, highs in the mid 50s and lows in the low-mid 30s.

On the Channel 4 weather website at 0426 radar is showing light snow areas continue to fall along a SW-NE axis from the Gulf Coast of LA all the way into New England at this time.

As of 0426, 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:

Cloudy, cold with occasional light snow this morning.

Station Relative Location Temp RH DP    BP     Wind High/Low temp Tuesday
VP2            Ground          27.8 87  25 30.38S   NA     38.0/28.3

There was a trace of precipitation and a trace of snow in the cocorahs gauge on Tuesday. The VP2 tipping bucket rain gauge under my balcony reported 0.01″ of precipitation on Tuesday through midnight.

January precipitation is 1.45″.
January snowfall is 0.5″.
Snow on ground T
The seasonal snowfall total is 4.3″.

Year-to-date precipitation total is 1.45″

WX Bug Lakewood 4500 ft, 28 93 26 30.32″S NW 5 G N 16
                            140° from station                      39/27

The Lakewood rain gauge reported 0.31″ of precipitation on Tuesday. It must have been old frozen precipitation that finally melted through. However, it is still reporting 1.29″ monthly and yearly January 2018 precipitation.

Temp from the VP2 at 2400 was 32.3 RH 87% BP 30.37S DP 28.9. Cloudy with light snow and cold at 2400.

Good morning from the cloudy, cold, slightly snowy Walrus early on this Wednesday morning.