RAIN RAIN RAIN!!! – A cloudy, very wet, cool, flooding weather update for West Rockville Maryland for Friday July 28 2017

RAIN RAIN RAIN!!! – A cloudy, very wet, cool, flooding weather update for West Rockville Maryland for Friday July 28 2017

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Friday was a cloudy, cool, very wet day with widespread flooding in the area (many flash flood warnings issued by NWS throughout the day), though I didn’t observe any flooding in my limited travels around Gaithersburg and Rockville in the afternoon.  Now at 0418 we have cloudy skies and pleasantly cool temperatures in the mid-upper 60s, with damp dew points in the mid 60s. The Friday minimum temperature from the VP2 in the shelter on the ground nearby (69.8°) was recorded at 2301 while the maximum temperature (77.2°) was recorded at 0936. Dew point temps were about the same as yesterday, ranging from 74° to 69°. Relative humidity values rose today with all the rain (98% – 87%).  Barometric values dropped more today, ranging from 29.84″ at 0013 to 29.69″ at 1847.

Remember now you can get the new ground-based VP2 data on Weatherlink.  You can access the data through http://www.weatherlink.com/user/walrusman444 Besides the very active weather day, I had a busy day of changeable activities based on last minute developments. I had another flare up in my intestines, and a subsequent mess to clean up in the apartment before leaving at 1 PM with Mike to take me to important appointments at Motor Vehicles to get my driver license renewed and to Kaiser medical to get important blood tests done and specimen sample containers to pick up for future use. All this was done with driving through the rain and getting wet while loading and unloading into Mike’s car. It was amazingly efficient at both places, a lot quicker and more organized than I anticipated but still did not get free till it was too late to make the weekly rummikub game. So we decided on going to La Mexicana for a late lunch with Mike and seeing Tracy before she finished her shift at 1700. We surprised her and had a good time at the bar with a few drafts and a burrito special that was yummy. I got back to the apartment in the late afternoon, and started finally to chill out and watch the rain pile up. I did make a pot of hazelnut cream coffee which was different and tasted good after a wet time that had actually chilled me a bit, especially while I was waiting for Mike outside to pick me up from Kaiser as he also had to go to Motor Vehicles for a different reason and was delayed.  So I missed the scheduled physical therapy session with Jenny and the rummikub game. I then caught up a bit on email and FACEBOOK, especially describing the very wet, rainy day to many others then I talked again with Tracy, Marty and Robin (face-time along with Gideon) in the late afternoon/early evening. I had a topsy turvy day in many ways, including an evening meal of cereal, milk and bananas. I had some triscuits well after the cereal.  I also drank some water from my ginormous water bottle throughout the evening and early morning hours.

We now have cloudy skies, apparently dry for the moment, and pleasantly cool with temperatures in the mid 60s at 0418. It is finally my 67th birthday on Saturday and looks to be wonderfully cool once again,  with highs in the low 70s with a 40 POP for continued rain under mostly cloudy skies with lows in the upper 50s Saturday night. Sunny and drier conditions should return on Sunday and Monday, with highs in the 80° to 85° range and lows in the low 60s.

On Channel 4 radar at 0418, rain appears to be revolving around the LOW pressure, currently over us and western VA, with the bulk of the rain falling out in WV, PA, sections of VA south of Washington DC towards Norfolk and the eastern shore of MD and DE at this time.

As of 0418 EDT, the data from the VP2 is now coming from the ground radiation shield about 4 feet off the ground just under and out from the balcony and the Taylor has been replaced with the Radio Shack thermometer for the time being (on the balcony – max temps especially read too high).  The data from the Lakewood Country Club WXBug station and the USG VP2 station across the street are as follows :

Station     Relative Location      Temp    RH    DP         BP        Wind   High/Low temp today
VP2               Ground                67.6     97    67      29.67F    NA      77.2/69.8       

Radio Shack    Balcony               72.7                                              80.4/75.6   

There was 2.92″ of rain recorded today (cocorahs gauge on ground below – in between the US and State Flagpoles out a bit from my balcony)    

July precipitation is now 8.82″.

Year-to-date (YTD) precipitation total is 26.37″                                                                                               

VP2 Across the street (USG)          68.4     97   68      29.70F      NA     77.9/70.2   

There was 1.67″ of rain recorded in the USG gauge on Friday. The max rain rate recorded at the USG gauge was 1.22″/hr @ 1047. The data from USG appears to be seriously underreporting today, along with a lower max rain rate than expected.  

WX Bug     Lakewood 4500 ft,       68     90.1  65     29.68F    NNW 4   G NNW 23     
                   140° from station                                                                  77/69

The Lakewood rain gauge recorded 2.52″ of rain on Friday.

Temp on the VP2 at 2400 was 69.9 RH 98% BP 29.69F  DP 69.4 The Radio Shack thermometer was 75.6°.

Good morning from the cloudy, dry for the moment, breezy, cool Walrus early on my 67th birthday Saturday morning.

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