As we close out a wetter and colder than normal November and head into the beginning of meteorological winter on  Saturday the days continue to get shorter and are remaining colder than normal, though temps will moderate this weekend as the new month starts with periods of rain. The outlook for December is for cold and wet conditions to continue, however.

Today’s attached image is the third and last of the series of the snowy summit area of Salt Pond Mtn (4365′ elevation)  just north of Blacksburg VA taken on Wednesday, November 28. Photo courtesy of David Carroll. Hopefully deeper snows will fall later on in the winter and more spectacular images will be made available then.

Friday was a mostly cloudy, milder day with light rain showers (0.02″) mid-day with temperatures maxing out in the lower mid 40s in the early afternoon after starting out in the very early AM in the mid 30s.

The maximum temperature was 43.7° at 1358.

The minimum temperature was 35.2° at 0001.

Dew point temperatures ranged from a low of 23° @ 0006 up to a high of 35° @ 1157.

Relative humidity values ranged from a low of 59% @ 0144 up to a high of 85% @ 2329.

Barometric pressure ranged from a low of 30.01″ @ 1312 up to a high of 30.16″ @ 2351.

0.02″ of rain fell on Friday. November 2018 ended up with 7.76″ of rainfall with the year-to-date precipitation now at 58.81″.

You can get my VP2 data on Weatherlink. I have migrated over to Weatherlink 2.0 so I have a new link for my data.
You can now access the data through: https://www.weatherlink.com/map/5aa32916-94c7-4a40-a2d0-0b74abfc8d8f

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

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. And the tipping bucket is producing significantly higher values than my 4 inch gauge. I actually use the data I post to CoCoRaHS from my 4 inch CoCoRaHS gauge I read manually as my “official” precipitation total each day.

Saturday will be cloudy and cold with temps holding around 40° and a 90 POP for rain to start out the month of December on a wet note.

Sunday should have AM clouds and a 40 POP for showers and possibly thundershowers with PM clearing and warmer, with highs in the low 60s and lows in the mid 40s.

Monday should be partly cloudy and a bit cooler, with highs in the mid 50s and lows in the mid 30s

Tuesday will be partly cloudy and colder, with highs in the low 40s and lows in the upper 20s but no chance of rain or snow.

Wednesday will be mostly cloudy and still colder, with highs in the upper mid-30s and lows in the mid 20s.There’s only a 10 POP for snow, but stay tuned for next weekend on those chances probably increasing.  

Friday’s midnight observations included a temperature of 36.1°, relative humidity 85%, barometric pressure 30.16″ and rising, and a dew point of 32.0° with partly cloudy skies.

Currently at 0504 the temperature is 34.2°, dew point temperature 32°, relative humidity 91%, and barometric pressure at 30.20″ and rising under cloudy skies. Temperatures held in the mid 30s overnight under partly to mostly cloudy skies.

Good morning from the Walrus early on this Saturday.