Friday featured a high clouds overcast in the AM, then mostly sunny, warmer conditions in the PM as high temperatures approached the 50° mark. All vestiges of snow in my immediate area have melted away. The Friday maximum temperature from the VP2 (49.6°) was recorded at 1503 while the minimum temperature (25.5°) was recorded at 0500. My dew point temperatures started a slow climb upwards, ranging from 10° at 0004 up to 21° at 1212. Relative humidity values fell off a bit from yesterday’s values (65% – 27%). Barometric values lowered more today from an AM high of 30.17″ at 0932 down to a late PM min of 30.04″ 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 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 spoke with Marty and Ray as usual, reviewing some questions on snow for the internet radio show on Monday that Marty is going on the air for. I found some good links on a few articles on snow and cold in Alaska.  I worked on weather communication with other observers around the country through email and facebook. I watched the thoroughly enjoyable Wisconsin basketball game against Illinois, easily won by the Badgers 75-50. 

We have sunny skies with some high clouds along the northern horizon now on this Saturday morning with temperatures in the upper mid 20s. Sunny skies should maintain all of Saturday with highs in the mid 50s, lows in the mid 30s. Sunday should be cloudy with high temperatures in the low 50s, lows in the upper 30s. Monday should be partly to mostly cloudy and even warmer with high temperatures up around 60° and lows in the mid 40s. Mostly AM rain (90 POP) on Tuesday with temps in the mid 50s, falling off to around the freezing mark by the end of the day. Wednesday should cool off to most seasonable mid 40s for highs, and mid 20s for lows under partly cloudy skies.

On the Channel 4 weather website at 0754 radar is clear throughout the Eastern US for the most part, save for some scattered areas of light snow in parts of Maine, and rain showers down south centered over much of Louisiana at this time. There should be a lot of melting over the next few days for areas which still have snow on the ground in much of the Eastern US. A building snowstorm has struck parts of the Rockies, with significant snow in parts of CO, UT, WY, and MT.

As of 0754, 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 mild with no snow cover left unfortunately.

Station Relative Location Temp RH DP    BP       Wind High/Low temp Friday
VP2             Ground           27.7  66  18 30.04R    NA    49.6/25.5

There was no precipitation in the cocorahs gauge on Friday. The VP2 tipping bucket rain gauge under my balcony reported no precipitation on Friday through midnight.
January precipitation is 1.51″.
Friday 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, 30 53 14 29.99″R Calm G WSW 4
                              140° from station                         53/24

The Lakewood rain gauge recorded 0.10″ of precipitation on Friday, as more 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.

Temperature from the VP2 at 2400 was 30.9 RH 59% BP 30.04F DP 18.3. Clear and at 2400.

Good morning from the sunny, slightly milder, snowless Walrus early on this Saturday 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.