Thursday featured clear skies and an afternoon warmup after one last cold early AM that will be the pattern for the next few days. No snow left on the ground now, just a few very scattered patches in well protected, north facing areas in my immediate area. The Thursday maximum temperature from the VP2 (41.0°) was recorded at 1536 while the minimum temperature (16.5°) was recorded at 0126. My dew point remained pretty low all day, ranging from 8° at 0000 up to 13° at 1220. Relative humidity values fell significantly from yesterday’s values (71% – 27%). Barometric values lowered more today a bit from an early AM high of 30.31″ at 0000 down to 30.06″ at 1506.

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 talked with Tracy on her way to work, and to Ray and Marty later with a post mortem on our light snow of Wednesday and on bleak snow projections for the rest of the month. I worked on weather communication with other observers around the country through email and facebook and researching more old snow data compared with the present month.

We have sunny skies with some broken high clouds over part of the sky now on this Friday morning with temperatures around the freezing mark. For the rest of Friday temperatures should rise more, with highs in the upper 40s and lows in the upper 20s under sunny skies. Mostly Sunny conditions on Saturday with highs in the mid 50s, lows in the mid 30s. Sunday should be partly cloudy with high temperatures in the low 50s, lows in the upper 30s. Warmer than normal temperatures (50s for highs, 30s to mid 40s for lows) should continue into the early part of next week as it looks now with a 60 POP for rain late Monday into Tuesday morning.

On the Channel 4 weather website at 0908 radar is clear throughout the Eastern US. There should be a lot of melting over the next few days for areas which still have snow on the ground.

As of 0908, 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:

Sunny and milder with no snow cover left unfortunately.

Station Relative Location Temp RH DP   BP      Wind High/Low temp Thursday
VP2            Ground          35.7 46  17 30.17R   NA  41.0/16.5 (Friday AM min 25.5° @ 0500)

There was no precipitation in the cocorahs gauge on Thursday. The VP2 tipping bucket rain gauge under my balcony reported no precipitation on Thursday through midnight, not sure what happened to the snow that should have melted and dripped through the tipping spoons from the sunny skies and temps reaching the low 40s.

January precipitation is 1.51″.
Thursday snowfall 0.0″
January snowfall is 1.2″.
Snow on ground 0.0″ (reported to the nearest half-inch)
The seasonal snowfall total is 5.0″.

Year-to-date precipitation total is 1.51″

WX Bug Lakewood 4500 ft, 36 38 12 30.12″R WSW 3 G SW 6
                            140° from station                         42/14

The Lakewood rain gauge reported 0.04″ of precipitation on Thursday, as the snow melted and dripped through the automated rainfall sensor. It is still reporting 0.93″ monthly and yearly January 2018 precipitation, the SAME as yesterday’s report.

Temp from the VP2 at 2400 was 32.8 RH 40% BP 30.14F DP 11.1. Clear and not as cold with no more snow on the ground at 2400.

Good morning from the sunny, milder, no longer snowy Walrus early on this Friday morning. Warmer temperatures have wiped out our snow cover with little to no prospects for any more for the foreseeable future for our immediate area.