Thursday featured still colder temperatures with sunny skies as high temperatures only reached the upper-mid 30s and lows down in the 20s for the first time since 1/20. The Thursday maximum temperature from the VP2 (37.8°) was recorded at 1557 while the minimum temperature (26.2°) was recorded at 2354. My dew point temperatures lowered some more today, ranging from a high of 24° early at 0000 down to 17° at 1135. Relative humidity values started out lower in the AM, then rose late in the day somewhat (77% – 46%). Barometric values rose significantly all day today from a low (early) of 30.24″ at 0000 way up to a high of 30.63″ at 2357.

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 Ray in the evening for a while, and we got into the national Climate data base records to help with a request for Andrews AFB daily data, which is not found in our normal sources. I found it finally, but it is complexly displayed/encoded in a very hard to read format. I need to work on these files some more to get them in a more readable format. I did have my usual vitamins, supplements and water later in the evening.

We are warming up after a cold early AM (low of 24° at 0525) into the upper 30s now under clear, sunny skies. Friday looks to warm up a bit, with highs near 50° and lows in the mid 30s under sunny skies. Mostly sunny and milder on Saturday with highs in the upper 50s and lows in the mid 40s. Cloudy with AM light rain (60 POP) on Sunday, with highs in the low 50s and lows in the low-mid 30s. Monday should be partly cloudy and cooler, with highs in the upper 40s and lows in the mid 20s. Colder on Tuesday under AM clouds/PM sun with highs only up to freezing and lows in the mid-upper teens.

On the Channel 4 weather website at 1046 radar is showing a clear screen throughout the Eastern U.S at this time.

As of 1046, 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:

Clear and warming up at the present time.

Station Relative Location Temp RH DP    BP      Wind High/Low temp Thursday
VP2               Ground         37.6  57 23 30.74R   NA    37.8/26.2

There was no precipitation in the cocorahs gauge on Thursday through midnight obs. The VP2 tipping bucket rain gauge under my balcony recorded no precipitation on Thursday through midnight.

January precipitation is 1.67″.
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 1.67″

WX Bug Lakewood 4500 ft, 37 53 20 30.68″R SSE 6 G SSE 12
                              140° from station                            38/24

The Lakewood rain gauge recorded no precipitation on Thursday. However it is now reporting 1.83″ monthly and yearly January 2018 precipitation, up an unexplicable 0.83″ from yesterday’s report but now 0.16″ above my cocorahs monthly rainfall total.

Temperature from the VP2 at 2400 was 26.2 RH 77% BP 30.62R DP 20.0. Clear and colder at 2400.

Good morning from the sunny, warming up but snowless Walrus early on this Friday morning.