Saturday featured warm, partly sunny skies as high temperatures rose into the upper 50s. The Saturday maximum temperature from the VP2 (58.3°) was recorded at 1525 while the minimum temperature (27.4°) was recorded at 0708. My dew point temperatures continued their slow climb upwards, ranging from 15° at 0328 up to 36° at 1313. Relative humidity values rose a bit from yesterday’s values (73% – 37%). Barometric values lowered a bit more today from a low of 29.98″ at 1355 up to a late evening max of 30.13″ at 2353.

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.

We have warm 50° temps now under mostly cloudy (altostratus) skies with occasional sun breaking through that should happen more frequently later on in the day with a partly cloudy afternoon sky and high temps in the mid 50s. Temperatures reached an early AM low of 34, which should hold all day and become my first January day with a min above the freezing mark. Lows Sunday night should remain mild, with lows in the low 40s. Monday should be partly cloudy (more clouds in the AM and less clouds in the PM) and even warmer with high temperatures in the low 60s and lows in the upper 40s. Mostly AM rain (90 POP), actually calling for thunderstorms, on Tuesday with temps in the mid 50s, falling off to around the freezing mark by the end of the day. Wednesday and Thursday should cool off to seasonable low 40s for highs, and low-mid 20s for lows under partly cloudy skies.

On the Channel 4 weather website at 1053 radar is mostly clear throughout the Eastern US, save for some scattered areas of light snow in parts of MI and adjoining ON up in the northern Lake Huron region, and rain showers down south in parts of FL and offshore of GA and SC at this time. The snowstorm out west mentioned yesterday has moved eastward and parts of the Great Plains states stretching from CO and NE to western MN are now being affected.

As of 1053, the data from the VP2 (coming from the ground weather station sensors 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 Saturday
VP2             Ground         50.4 60  37 30.25R    NA     58.3/27.4

There was no precipitation in the cocorahs gauge on Saturday. The VP2 tipping bucket rain gauge under my balcony reported no precipitation on Saturday through midnight.
January precipitation is 1.51″.
Saturday 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, 49 55 34 30.23″R S 4 G SSE 10
                            140° from station                      61/27

The Lakewood rain gauge recorded no precipitation on Saturday. 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 38.7 RH 73% BP 30.12R DP 30.8. Partly cloudy and milder at 2400.

Good morning from the mostly cloudy, mild, snowless Walrus not so early on this Sunday morning. Warmer temperatures have wiped out our snow cover with little to no prospects for any more snow for the rest of January for our immediate area.