Saturday was cooler, cloudy and wet (0.54″), the rain falling during the evening hours. Temperatures were cooler with upper 50s for highs and mid 40s for the usual AM low. Cloudy skies have continued overnight with a bit of light rain (0.06″ since midnight on the VP2 gauge) with temps holding in the low 50s. Dew points lowered with the cooler weather, rising only into the low 50s. At 0722 EST (all time references will now be in standard time from this point on, and for this post I will annotate time references with either EDT or EST as appropriate.) we have cloudy skies with occasional drizzle. Temperatures are in the low 50s with dew points also in the low 50s. The Saturday minimum temperature from the VP2 (45.4°) was recorded at 0742 EDT while the maximum temperature (58.9°) was recorded at 0000 EDT. Dew point temps ranged from 52° down to 39°. Relative humidity values lowered a tad today (96% – 65%). Barometric values actually rose a bit today, ranging from a low of 30.23″ at 0005 EDT up to 30.37″ at 1010 EDT.

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 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 spoke with Ray on the phone in the late afternoon for a while, discussing football and the current wet weather happenings. I ran some recyclables down to the recycle bin on the way out to my midnight cocorahs rain gauge reading, and picked up the daily mail on the way back. I did not hear from Marty at the weather conference after a brief update in the early morning on his way to the conference when he sent me a few pictures I will post later after I hopefully get more. 

Saturday was cloudy, cooler and dry most of the daylight hours and wet with light rain during most of the evening hours. It is cloudy out there right now on this Sunday morning. Sunday looks just cloudy and a bit warmer with highs in the lower-mid 60s and lows in the upper-mid 50s and only a 10 POP for rain. Monday looks a bit warmer and continued mostly cloudy with highs around 70° and an 80 POP for showers/ thundershowers with lows in the low 40s. Tuesday and Wednesday should cool back down into the low-mid 50s under partly cloudy skies with a bit lesser chances of rain (40-50 POP) and lows down in the upper 30s-lower 40s. About the same on Thursday with highs in the low 50s and lows in the 30s and a continued 40 POP for rain showers. There still are no real cold air intrusions for the foreseeable future as it looks now.

On the Channel 4 weather website at 0722 EST their radar shows scattered rain showers off the MD, DE and NJ coast, and also over parts of western PA, OH and NY, all headed NE hence no rain headed for our area this Sunday as those shower areas will stay to my N, NW, and NE.

As of 0722 EST, the data from the VP2 (coming from the ground radiation shield about 4 feet off the ground just under and out from the balcony) and the Lakewood WXBug station are as follows :

Station Relative Location Temp RH DP     BP    Wind   High/Low temp today
VP2             Ground        53.0  98  53 30.23S   NA      58.9/45.4

There was 0.54″ of rain in the cocorahs gauge on Saturday. The VP2 tipping bucket rain gauge under my balcony recorded only 0.33″ rain on Saturday, including a very modest 0.30″/hour max rain rate at 1845 EDT. Since midnight EDT an additional 0.06″ has fallen in this gauge.

November precipitation is 0.54″.

Year-to-date precipitation total is now 36.95″

WX Bug Lakewood 4500 ft, 52 100 52 30.20S ESE 2 G ESE 7
                            140° from station                        58/44

The Lakewood rain gauge recorded 0.00″ of rain through midnight EDT on Saturday. It apparently is still clogged and not working properly.

Temp from the VP2 at 2400 EDT was 51.3 RH 96% BP 30.26S DP 50.3. Cloudy with drizzle at midnight .

Good morning from the cloudy, cool, occasionally wet Walrus early on this Sunday.