I got up and going eventually by mid-afternoon, as phone calls proliferated from Tracy and several friends, as we work out some social meetings within the next week. I had a late brunch of cereal, banana and hazelnut cream coffee, then started in on email and FACEBOOK.  Later on I finally had a bit more food, with a toasted bagel sandwiching seafood and crab salad in between along with a slice of cheese, along with the rest of the orzo salad and a dabble into some new yummy macaroni salad. I had some triscuits much later for a late night snack. I got a lot of stuff down to the recycle bin, some 3 large grocery bags worth. That was a relief!  I tracked some interesting weather around the country, with severe storms/flooding rains NE of me up the coast and also the heat wave over the Pacific Northwest. I also drank lots of water from my ginormous water bottle throughout the evening and early morning hours.

We now have partly cloudy, dry skies and warm temperatures around 70° at 0453. Partly cloudy conditions should be the norm for the rest of the week into the weekend, with highs around 90° through Friday and lows in the upper 60s. Chances for rain look to be only of the isolated/scattered variety with POPs of only 20 at best. Saturday and Sunday should cool off with sunny skies, only scattered clouds, a 0 POP for rain and highs around 80° and lows in the 60° to 65° range.  

On Channel 4 radar at 0454, the storms proliferating in the NE have mostly faded away in the calmer overnight hours, save for a few light very scattered showers over parts of Pennsylvania.

As of 0454 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                70.7     90    68      30.04F     NA     89.0/69.4       

Radio Shack    Balcony               N/A                                                  92.8/73.8   

There was 0.15″ of rain recorded today (cocorahs gauge on ground below – in between the US and State Flagpoles out a bit from my balcony)    

July precipitation finished out at 9.36″.
August precipitation is now 0.18″

Year-to-date (YTD) precipitation total is 27.09″                                                                                               

VP2 Across the street (USG)      70.0        92     68   30.07F     NA        90.2/71.3   

There was 0.01″ of water recorded in the USG gauge on Wednesday. I don’t know why it missed the rain I got in my cocorahs gauge.

WX Bug     Lakewood 4500 ft,     69         89.5  65.6  30.06F     E 1         G E 13     
                   140° from station                                                                90/70

The Lakewood rain gauge recorded no rain on Wednesday for some unknown reason.

Temp on the VP2 at 2400 was 71.5 RH 89% BP 30.07R  DP 68.2 The Radio Shack thermometer was 75.6°.

Good morning from the partly cloudy, dry, and warm Walrus early on Thursday morning.