Monday was mostly cloudy, quite warm and humid, with morning steady light rain (0.56″) from dying tropical storm Nate with dew point temperatures mostly in the 70s all day. Temperatures rose from the muggy low 70s in the early AM to the muggy low 80s in the afternoon among slowly decreasing clouds. Dew points ranged from the upper 70s most of the day down to the upper 60s in the late evening. Now at 1005 we have scattered high clouds with temperatures in the upper 60s with dew points in the mid 60s. The Monday minimum temperature from the VP2 (71.2°) was recorded at 0641 while the maximum temperature (82.9°) was recorded at 1602. Dew point temps ranged from 69° up to 77°. Relative humidity values were higher than yesterday (99% – 79%). Barometric values fell off a bit more today, ranging from 29.99″ at 2339 down to 29.81″ at 0748.

Remember now you can get the VP2 data on Weatherlink. You can access the data through http://www.weatherlink.com/user/walrusman444. I am also now on weather underground. My ID is KMDROCKV200 and my station is called “Gardens of Traville.” Data is online, normally just about in real-time.

I was up in the early afternoon for a meeting with my lawyer, going over some old business. I had a late breakfast after he left of the usual cereal, cut up banana and coffee along with a toasted bagel with salmon cream cheese. Lots of playoff baseball on as the Astros closed out the Red Sox 5-4 to win their series, the Nats loss 2-1 to the Cubs, and the evening finale a most satisfying Yankee win, 7-3 over the Cleveland Indians, tying their series at 2-2 and setting up a Wednesday finale in Cleveland. I had my leftover burrito for dinner, along with some leftover potatoes. Garnished with the rest of the guacamole and some spicy dressing, it was quite delicious. I had a few triscuits and cashews later in the evening. I talked with Ray quite a bit very late about the Monday rain and a few other things, and also caught up with Robin on FB chat, talking about how Gideon’s 1st birthday went and other matters. I also caught up some on my email and facebook communications throughout the evening. I had some prune juice and spicy V8 around dinner time along with my vitamins and ice water throughout the evening.

We now have a broken overcast with the sun peaking through the clouds at 1005 Tuesday. Partly sunny on Tuesday, highs in the low 80s and lows in the mid 60s. Generally cloudy/showery and cooler weather should follow the rest of the workweek from Wednesday through Friday with temps in the mid 60s-lower 70s. Right now a 60 POP for rain on Wednesday, a 30 POP on Thursday, and 20 POP on Friday under mostly cloudy skies. We still need all the rain we can get!! On Weatherbug at 0918 the radar is mostly clear in the immediate 4 state Mid-Atlantic region with some scattered showers to our west over parts of IN, KY and TN at this time.

As of 1005 EDT, the data from the VP2 (coming from the ground radiation shield about 4 feet off the ground just under and out from the balcony), the Lakewood 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 71.9 92 69 30.10R NA 82.8/71.2

There was 0.56″ of rain in the cocorahs gauge on Monday. The 2 day storm total was 0.69″.

October precipitation is 0.69″.

Year-to-date precipitation total is now 34.25″

VP2 Across the street (USG) NA NA NA 30.15R NA NA/NA

There was no rain reported once again in the USG gauge on Monday as the VP2 continues not to function properly. The USG VP2 continues to stay offline all day and is not providing much data (save for barometric pressure readings).

WX Bug Lakewood 4500 ft, 76 76 65.3 30.11R Calm G NW 6 (humidity/dew pt appears to be off)                  140° from station 85/71

The Lakewood rain gauge reported 0.54″ of rain on Monday. Its 2 day storm total was 0.66″.

Temp from the VP2 at 2400 was 72.6 RH 89% BP 29.99R DP 69.2 Clear at midnight .

Good morning from the partly cloudy and warm Walrus (not so) early on this Tuesday.