Friday was a warmer, dry and partly cloudy day. The Friday maximum temperature from the VP2 (69.3°) was recorded at 1654 while the Friday minimum temperature (42.5°) was recorded at 0620. Dew point temperatures rose some , ranging from a low of 23° at 0000 up to a high of 40° at 0841. Relative humidity values varied widely today (86% – 25%) . Barometric values started out at their highest point very early AM (30.15″ at 0039), then fell off all day, reaching the daily low by late evening (29.67″ at 2301).

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.

I got up in the early afternoon to get ready for rummikub at 1500 in Building A. I could not have any cereal as I had run out of milk. I put together a grocery order for that and a few other things but won’t get it till early Sunday evening. I have plenty of other food around. I got some food from my daughter that our Uber driver friend Mike dropped off while I was playing rummikub. Slices of ham and home-made scalloped potatoes were delicious, and I added cut up zucchini spears to finish out the dinner menu. I have plenty of ham left for sandwiches sometime this weekend. I watched the extra inning baseball game between the Yanks and O’s, won by Baltimore 7-3 in 14 innings on a grand slam HR. I talked with Tracy on her way from one shift to the other, and later on talked with Ray and Marty about another busted forecast for Saturday as it appears now, with no snow/no precipitation so far and not much showing on radar for the rest of the day. I had some low sodium spicy V8 juice around dinnertime, along with my usual good supply of ice water, vitamins and supplements during the day. I had my new vitamins and saw palmetto.

Overnight Friday into Saturday skies were cloudy and colder after midnight, with temperatures dropping from the low 60s around midnight to the upper 30s by morning. Saturday’s forecast is for cloudy skies with only a 10 POP for precipitation, highs in the mid 40s and lows in the upper 20s. The storm has remained well to the south and east and won’t make it to my immediate area. Sunday should be mostly sunny and a bit milder, with highs in the upper 40s and lows in the lower 30s. Monday should be cloudy and a bit colder, highs in the mid 40s 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 mostly cloudy skies and only an isolated chance for a shower (20 POP). Mostly sunny on Wednesday with highs in the mid 50s and lows in the upper 30s.

On the channel 4 weather radar website at 1221 shows the rain shield well to the south and east of our immediate area, with scattered light snow out in the WV mountains.

As of 1221, 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, colder, dry. This morning’s AM low was 38.1°

Station Relative Location Temp   RH   DP      BP   Wind High/Low temp Friday
VP2            Ground          39.4° 49% 22° 29.99″R NA     69.3/42.5

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

Friday’s precipitation was 0.00″
April precipitation 0.17″
Friday’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, 37 49 19 29.98″S NNW 10 G NNW 16
                            140° from station                       70/41
The Lakewood rain gauge recorded 0.00″ of precipitation on Friday. It is reporting a total of 0.39″ of precipitation for April and a 2018 year-to-date (YTD) amount of 11.27″. 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 Friday night the temperature from the VP2 was 63.3 RH 39% BP 29.69″R DP 37.9.

Cloudy, mild, dry at 2400

Good early afternoon from the now cloudy, colder, still dry home of the snowless walrus on this Saturday.