I have been bogged down with a lot to do the past few days, and have had quite an erratic sleep schedule. The weather has had me hopping, and Marty was over on Friday to get my VP2 station squared away along with a few other important personal activities. I now can now quote good short-term rainfall rates with my VP2 rain gauge unclogged and leveled out properly. I will give brief details about the weather from last Thursday, May 31 through Sunday, June 3. I will resume my regular reporting later tonight with Monday’s report. I am sorry for the lack of response the past few days.

Thursday was a warm, muggy day with early morning fog and then thunder mid-afternoon followed by a good shower (0.64″ daily total) from 1800-1915. The max rain rate during the heaviest rain was 6.00″/hour @ 1810. Temps started out in the mid 60s and raised to the low-mid 80s just prior to the shower when temps dropped into the 70s. The Thursday maximum temperature reached 83.1° @ 1630, while the Thursday minimum temperature was 66.5° @ 0547. The dew point temperatures stayed high all day, ranging from a low of 66° @ 0130 up to a high of 75° @ 1416. The barometric pressure lowered a bit from Wednesday – the highest being 30.02″ @ 0800 down to a low of 29.86″ @ 2247. The relative humidity values were high once again, ranging from a high of 98% at 0625 down to a low of 74% at 1628.

The start of June on Friday was a warmer, muggy day but with only light showers (0.02″) falling. Temps started out in the upper 60s and raised to the mid 80s by mid-afternoon. The Friday maximum temperature reached 86.7° @ 1603, while the Friday minimum temperature was 69.1° @ 0509. The dew point temperatures stayed very high all day, ranging from a low of 69° @ 0505 up to a high of 75° @ 1600. The barometric pressure more from Thursday – the highest being 29.87″ @ 0000 down to a low of 29.74″ @ 1825. The relative humidity values were high once again, ranging from a high of 98% at 0200 down to a low of 63% at 1715.

Saturday was another warm, muggy day with thunderstorms holding off till mid-evening with just light showers in the early morning and early evening hours with total rainfall for the day adding up to 0.76″, with a max rain rate of 5.24″/hour @ 2227. Temps started out around 70° in the early morning hours raising up to the low 80s in the mid afternoon. The Saturday maximum temperature reached 82.8° @ 1524, while the Saturday minimum temperature was 69.9° @ 0554. The dew point temperatures stayed high all day once again, ranging from a low of 69° @ 0034 up to a high of 73° @ 1259. The barometric pressure lowered a bit from Friday – the lowest being 29.73″ @ 0430 up to a high of 29.81″ @ 2219. The relative humidity values were high once again, ranging from a high of 96% at 0500 down to a low of 69% at 1521.

Sunday featured a change to cooler, damp weather as a cooler NE flow developed after the passage of a back door cold front along with an upper level trough/coastal surface low in SE VA pumping in lots of rain (0.93″) into the area. It was basically a stable pattern with steady light rain falling along with temps falling off gradually all day. Other areas of Maryland got a lot more rain than I did, on the order of 3-4 inches with bad flooding in some places, fortunately not in flood-ravaged Ellicott City. Temps started out in the low 70s in the early morning hours and gradually sunk all day to the mid 50s by the late evening. The Sunday maximum temperature was a very early 71.1° @ 0407, while the Sunday minimum temperature dropped down to a late 53.9° @ 2359. The dew point temperatures predictably dropped all day, ranging from a high of 70° @ 0405 down to a low of 53° @ 2250. The barometric pressure actually rose a bit from Saturday – the lowest being 29.78″ @ 0525 up to a high of 29.90″ @ 1310. The relative humidity values remained very high, ranging from a high of 96% at 0225 down to a low of 91% at 1050.

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 precipitation data reflects what is recorded automatically through the tipping bucket VP2 gauge. I actually use the data I post to cocorahs from my 4″ cocorahs gauge I read manually as my “official” precipitation total each day.

I only have time for brief personal highlights. Marty’s Friday visit included a trip to get me a new walker, a rollator model with brakes and four big 8 inch wheels for great maneuverability and ability to proceed easily through most all terrain (at least that I normally go through- including to and from the rain gauge). We got back after a brief stop to Kaiser to pick up a prescription, and Marty installed thermometers inside my refrigerator and freezer with a nice readout outside the unit for ease in reading. He got my VP2 on even ground and cleaned it up nicely. Rain gauges must be even to the ground to get the most accurate reading. We celebrated all our hard work with a late lunch at Nantuckets Reef Seafood restaurant. I managed to get in my rummikub game in the evening. I already played Trivia on Thursday evening, walking through the rain to Building A in my rain gear. With all this daily rain, I am beating quite a path out to the rain gauge! I had much of my usual other activities including phone calls and interesting meals, like the fresh sushi I had on Saturday evening. I have watched some exciting Caps action in the Stanley Cup Finals, along with some great Yankee wins, though limited by rainouts in nearby Baltimore over the weekend.

I will do an analysis of Monday and cover the upcoming week’s weather here in my Monday post later on.

Clear cool and relatively dry at the moment.

Station Relative Location Temp   RH  DP    BP      Wind High/Low temp
VP2              Ground          66.4° 69% 56° 29.85″R NA   83.1°/66.5° (Thursday)
                                                                                      86.7°/69.1° (Friday)

                                                                                     82.8°/69.9° (Saturday)
                                                                                     71.1°/ 53.9° (Sunday)
The total precipitation in the cocorahs gauge was 2.35″ from midnight Wednesday through midnight Sunday. The VP2 tipping bucket recorded 2.83″ of rain.

Thursday’s precipitation was 0.64″
Friday’s precipitation was 0.02″
Saturday’s precipitation was 0.76″
Sunday’s precipitation was 0.93″
May precipitation totals 6.68″
June precipitation is (through 6/3) 1.71″
Year-to-date precipitation total is (through 6/3) 20.13″

WX Bug Lakewood 4500 ft, 66° 64% 53° 29.85″R   Calm G ESE 3
                              140° from station

I will resume the rest of the Lakewood rain gauge data in my next post.

At 2400 obs Thursday night the temperature from the VP2 was 70.3° RH 97% BP 29.87″R DP 69.4°
At 2400 obs Friday night the temperature from the VP2 was 72.2° RH 92% BP 29.79″F DP 69.7°
At 2400 obs Saturday night the temperature from the VP2 was 70.6° RH 95% BP 29.80″S DP 69.2°
At 2400 obs Sunday night the temperature from the VP2 was 55.9° RH 93% BP 29.89″S DP 53.9°

Good evening from the clear, pleasant home of the walrus on this Monday. I am sorry for missing the
past few days. I should be able to resume my normal schedule starting tonight. Please bear with me
and don’t be shy about pointing out any errors you find/suspect. Thank you.