I am sorry not to have posted here since October 6. A new station went up across the street and was interfering with my station signal. My friend Marty came over on Friday and fixed things up, so now my weather station console and wxlink connection that uploads to the internet through weather underground and CWOP is now uploading my station data from its traditional location below my apartment rather than from the 60 foot high station on the roof of the building across the street. I have a second display at my disposal that does read the station data from across the street, but it only will be used for wind data, since I don’t have an anemometer hooked up to my traditional, long-term station. Hopefully I can explain things further as time goes on but for now I got to start somewhere, and I wanted to start today since my weather station is back online and giving my good station data. Temperatures and rainfall are meant to be measured/monitored from a 4-6 foot elevation rather than a 60 foot elevation. 

I will try to post a brief summary of the missing days here in October, just the precipitation amounts on days it actually rained on the past 19 days.

October 9  0.08″

October 16 1.28″

October 20 1.06″ (Dense Fog noted around obs time)

October 22 0.56″ (Dense Fog noted around obs time and thereafter into the early AM hours of the 23rd)

Month to date (through October 25) is 2.98″.

Year to date (also through October 25) is 41.23″

\No real extremes of heat or cold were recorded during this 19 day period. The highest temperature recorded during this 19 day period from October 7 through October 25 was 77.1° on the 7th and the lowest temperature recorded during this same period was 39.2° on the 19th so I have yet to record my first frost or freeze. Snow is still but a dream. The highlight of the period social-wise was a weekend sojourn up to the high country of West Virginia and western Maryland from Friday morning, October 11 through Sunday evening, October 13. We saw some fall color, but even up there in the colder higher elevations the color was muted and had not peaked yet in most locations except for the most extreme exposures on the highest elevations above 3,000 feet, particularly the 4863 foot summit of Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia. Activity in my apartment during the period was highlighted by an early evening Oktoberfest celebration in the great room of Building C on Thursday October 17. I also got my real ID at Motor Vehicles thanks to help/ride from Marty on Tuesday, October 15, which we celebrated with a nice lunch at the Yard House nearby. 

On Friday, we had some fog very early yielding to dry, clear air later in the morning that gave way to variable clouds in the afternoon but remaining dry, with seasonable conditions. High temps were in the mid 60s, lows were around 50 degrees. Dew point temperatures rose from mid 40s relatively early in the day, rising to the mid 50s by the end of the day. 

The maximum temperature was 64.9 degrees at 1447.

The minimum temperature was 50.4 degrees at 0830.

The dew point temperatures ranged from a low of 45 degrees @ 1606 up to a high of 54 degrees @ 2309.

The relative humidity values ranged from a high of 93% @ 0035 down to a low of 51% @ 1606.

The barometric pressure ranged from a high of 30.33 inches @ 1030 down to a low of 30.21 inches @ 1724.

The highest daily wind recorded across the street on the roof of the new USG building was 11 MPH that was recorded at 0038 from the S.

There was no precipitation on Friday so the October monthly total is 2.98 inches. The year-to-date total is 41.23 inches.  

My current downstairs station data is now showing regularly on Weather Underground. My data is posted there every 5 minutes. My ID is KMDROCKV200 and my station is called Gardens of Traville. Data is online, available in real-time as it is being updated on a 5 minute interval. The web address for my data on weather underground is:
https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMDROCKV200

I contribute my precipitation data daily to CoCoRaHS as Rockville 2.8 WNW, Station ID MD-MG-115 and can be found on the web at https://www.cocorahs.org

Please remember that my Weather Underground precipitation data reflects what is recorded automatically through the tipping bucket VP2 gauge, just as it does on WxLink 2.0. The tipping bucket has been producing erratic values on most days (when I have had rain that is) so should not be used except for general precipitation timing.

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. 

Cloudy but dry on Saturday with highs in the mid 60s and lows in the low 50s. GO BADGERS! BEAT OHIO STATE!!

Sunday should be mostly cloudy and milder with rain showers, highs in the low-mid 70s and lows in the mid-upper 50s.

Monday should be sunny and mild, with highs in the upper 60s and lows in the lower 50s.

Tuesday should be cloudy and seasonably mild with highs in the mid 60s and lows in the low 50s. On Wednesday and Thursday it looks to be mostly cloudy and showery with highs in the upper mid 60s and lows in the mid 50s.

On Midnight Friday, cloudy skies with a temperature of 56.7 degrees, relative humidity 88%, pressure falling at 30.22 inches with a dew point temperature of 53 degrees. Winds were ESE at 3 MPH

Currently at 0521 Saturday morning the temperature is 57.0 degrees under cloudy skies, relative humidity at 80%, barometric pressure steady at 30.20 inches, and the dew point temperature at 51 degrees. Winds are averaging 4 MPH over the past 10 minutes from the NE.

Good morning from the walrus on this cloudy, increasingly damp Saturday. Today’s featured image shows the new mulching and planting going on at my rain gauge, done earlier in the week. Marty actually moved the rain gauge a bit on Friday, and trimmed some of the branches to let the rain come through to the rain gauge as it started to overgrow. Pictures will follow in the coming days.