Wednesday was cloudy and milder with occasional light showers and drizzle. Temperatures started out mild around 40° and rose into the low 50s in the mid-afternoon. The Wednesday maximum temperature from the VP2 (53.0°) was recorded at 1549 while the minimum temperature (40.2°) was recorded very early at 0002. Dew point temperatures kept rising, ranging from a low of 38° at 0000 up to a high of 50° later at 1653. Relative humidity values were even higher than yesterday (96% – 81%). Barometric values continued to fall most of the day, ranging from a high of 30.22″ at 0021 down to a low of 30.01″ later at 1710.

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. The web address for my data on weather underground is: https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMDrockv200#history/ I contribute daily to cocorahs as Rockville 2.8 WNW, Station ID MD-MG-115 on https://www.cocorahs.org/ Please remember that Weather Underground does not report snow data, and reflects what is recorded automatically through the tipping bucket VP2 gauge. I use the data I post to cocorahs as my “official” precipitation total each day.

Overnight Wednesday into Thursday skies were cloudy with occasional light drizzle and developing fog with mild temps holding no lower than the mid 40s. Thursday should be cloudy/foggy in the AM with sun in the PM. Temps will be soaring into the mid 70s for what should be our warmest day of March. Also the warmest min of the month should occur, with lows only falling into the upper 50s. Cloudy on Friday with a 90 POP for AM rain and gradually cooler, with highs early around 60 but dropping late into the mid 30s. Sunny on Saturday, wrapping up the month of March, with highs in the upper 50s and lows in the mid 40s. April Fools Day/Easter Sunday should start April out mostly cloudy with no chance of rain, highs in the mid 50s and lows just above the freezing mark. Monday should be partly cloudy and a bit cooler, with highs in the low 50s and lows in the upper 30s.

On the Channel 4 weather radar website at 1003 widely scattered light rain showers can be found in small areas in the region, with more significant/widespread rain further west out in WV and OH, headed this way for Friday.

As of 1003, 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:

Cloudy, milder with slowly lifting ceilings.

Station Relative Location Temp RH DP    BP     Wind High/Low temp Wednesday
VP2           Ground           50.1 95 49 30.02″S   NA      53.0/40.2

The total precipitation in the cocorahs gauge was 0.08″ through midnight Wednesday. The VP2 tipping bucket rain gauge under my balcony recorded 0.05″ through midnight Wednesday.

Wednesday’s precipitation was 0.08″
March precipitation is 1.53″.
Wednesday’s snowfall 0.0″
March snowfall 4.5″
Snow on ground 0 (reported to the nearest half-inch)
The seasonal snowfall total is 12.0″.
Year-to-date precipitation total is 8.16″

WX Bug Lakewood 4500 ft, 49 100 49 30.01″R SE 3 G ESE 6
                            140° from station                  54/40
The Lakewood rain gauge recorded 0.07″ of precipitation on Wednesday. It is reporting a total of 2.96″ of precipitation so far in March and a 2018 year-to-date (YTD) amount of 10.47″.

At 2400 obs Tuesday night the temperature from the VP2 was 47.9 RH 96% BP 30.04″F DP 46.8.

Cloudy, light fog, milder at 2400

Good morning from the cloudy, milder, foggier home of the snowless walrus on this Thursday.