Wednesday featured partly cloudy skies, cold temperatures and windy conditions most of the day. We only managed to get into the upper 30s for highs and early AM mins in the upper 20s. Temperatures have once again held below freezing overnight into Thursday, with winds lessening overnight, and temps bottoming out in the upper 20s. The Wednesday maximum temperature from the VP2 (39.0°) was recorded at 1530 while the minimum temperature (29.0°) was recorded at 0501. Dew point temperatures were a bit lower than yesterday, ranging from a high of 24° at 0000 down to a low of 17° at 1702. Relative humidity values were somewhat high in the early hours of the day, but dropped off in the afternoon with the drying winds blowing around (73% – 42%). Barometric values dropped a little bit today, ranging from an early high of 29.90″ at 0002 down to a low of 29.76″ later at 1624.

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 got up in the late afternoon to start in on a lot of activities to do the rest of the day. I continue to wrestle with problems sending out email through gmail and verizon through Thunderbird, as the outgoing SMTP mail server keeps timing out. Resetting Thunderbird and then if that fails rebooting (warm and cold) seems to be the only real working solution.  I tried to do a bit of science fair email correspondence, but due to the aforementioned problem I was held back on making much progress on that activity. I also was trying to work on my busy social calendar for this St Patrick’s Day weekend, meeting up with a few weather friends on Saturday afternoon and evening. 

It was mostly clear and cold in the early AM on Wednesday with low temps in the upper 20s, then only rose slowly through the mid-afternoon into the upper 30s, with continued blustery conditions and lots of broken clouds that gave other areas in the region scattered showers of either rain or snow. Overnight Wednesday into Thursday was clear and cold, with winds dropping off quite a bit and temps falling to the upper 20s by sunrise. Thursday looks to start warming up under mostly cloudy skies, with highs around 50° and lows in the upper 20s and the wind slowly decreasing. Friday looks to be mostly sunny and colder once again, with highs in the low 40s and lows in the mid-upper 20s. St Patrick’s Day Saturday looks to be bouncing back again to the warmer side under mostly cloudy skies, with high temps in the upper 40s, and a 60% POP for PM showers and lows in the mid 20s. Sunday should warm up a bit more, with highs in the low 50s and lows in the upper 20s under sunny skies.

On the Channel 4 weather website at 0839 radar is showing scattered areas of snow showers in the mountains to my W and NW in parts of PA, WV and western Maryland. The big Nor’easter is winding down in northern NY and northern New England, and while it is still snowing in those areas but it is diminishing in intensity and coverage.

As of 0839, 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, cold and dry.

Station Relative Location Temp RH DP   BP     Wind High/Low temp Wednesday
VP2            Ground         32.1  60 19 29.78F   NA     39.0/29.0

The total precipitation in the cocorahs gauge was 0.00″ through midnight Wednesday. The VP2 tipping bucket rain gauge under my balcony had 0.00″ through midnight Wednesday.

Wednesday’s precipitation was 0.00″
March precipitation is 0.44″.
Wednesday’s snowfall 0.0″
March snowfall 0.3″
Snow on ground 0 (reported to the nearest half-inch)
The seasonal snowfall total is 7.8″.
Year-to-date precipitation total is 7.07″

WX Bug Lakewood 4500 ft, 29 61 17 29.75″F SE 2 G SSE 5
                            140° from station                  38/27

The Lakewood rain gauge recorded 0.00″ of precipitation on Wednesday. It is reporting a total of 0.98″ of precipitation so far in March and a 2018 year-to-date (YTD) amount of 8.48″. (same data as yesterday)

At 2400 obs Wednesday night the temperature from the VP2 was 33.8 RH 52% BP 29.86″S DP 18.0 .

Clear, cold, dry, no snow on the ground

Good morning from the sunny and cold home of the Walrus early on this Thursday.