Thursday was a cooler and dry day with lighter winds and partly cloudy skies. The Thursday maximum temperature from the VP2 (50.5°) was recorded at 1631 while the Thursday minimum temperature (32.7°) was recorded at 0655. Extreme daily temperatures exhibited a more normal pattern. Dew point temperatures dropped of , ranging from a low of 18° at 0857 up to a high of 27° much later at 2250. Relative humidity values really lowered today (60% – 31%) . Barometric values started out at their lowest point very early AM (30.06″ at 0004), then rose to the daily high by mid morning to 30.24″ at 1033.

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 Thursday into Friday skies were mostly cloudy and milder, with temperatures holding in the 40s. A warm front is coming through so Friday should be cloudy with highs in the mid 60s and lows in the upper 30s. Friday night should see showers developing (70 POP). Saturday’s forecast should have cloudy skies with only a 10 POP for early rain and wet snow, highs in the low-mid 40s and lows in the upper 20s. Right now it does not look like any accumulating snow will fall. Sunday should be mostly sunny and a bit milder, with highs in the mid 40s and lows in the lower 30s. Monday should be partly cloudy and a bit colder with PM showers (30 POP), highs around 40° and lows in the mid 30s. Tuesday looks to warm up a bit, with highs in the mid 50s, lows in the mid 30s, with cloudy skies and a 70 POP for PM rain.

On the channel 4 weather radar website at 1148 shows scattered snow showers over northern PA, much of upstate NY and sections of lower to mid New England. Also there is some growing shower activity well to my SW, over much of TN and AR, tracking NE ward and should give us our Saturday precipitation.

As of 1148, 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, dry. This morning’s AM low was 42.5°

Station Relative Location Temp  RH   DP     BP     Wind High/Low temp Thursday
VP2              Ground           51.9° 49% 33° 29.95″F NA    50.5/32.7

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

Thursday’s precipitation was 0.00″
April precipitation 0.17″
Thursday’s snowfall was 0.0″
April snowfall 0.0″
Snow on ground 0 (reported to the nearest half-inch)
The seasonal snowfall total is 12.0″.
Year-to-date precipitation total is 8.34″

WX Bug Lakewood 4500 ft, 52 47 31 29.92″F S 1 G SW 11
140° from station 51/30
The Lakewood rain gauge recorded 0.00″ of precipitation on Thursday. It is now reporting a total of 0.38″ of precipitation for April and a 2018 year-to-date (YTD) amount of 11.25″. I think the great disparity between the Lakewood WX Bug station precipitation amount total for the month and year and my cocorahs gauge based data is that Lakewood precip values are estimated from radar.

At 2400 obs Monday night the temperature from the VP2 was 44.4 RH 43% BP 30.14″F DP 23.5.

Clear, milder, dry at 2400

Good morning from the now cloudy, milder, still dry home of the snowless walrus on this Friday.