Sunday was cool, cloudy and still wet (0.09″), falling as occasional light rain and drizzle during the AM hours, with fog off and on all day, remaining gloomy. Temperatures were cool in the upper 50s for highs similar to yesterday and low 50s for the low at the very beginning of the day. Cloudy skies have continued
overnight but with no additional rain with temps holding in the upper 50s. Dew points remained in the 50s all day. At 0810 EST (all time references will now be in EST/standard time now till next spring) we have cloudy skies. Temperatures are in the upper 50s with dew points also in the upper 50s. The Sunday minimum temperature from the VP2 (51.4°) was recorded at 0000 while the maximum temperature (58.5°) was recorded at 2339. Dew point temps ranged from 50° up to 58°. Relative humidity values were very high today (98% – 96%). Barometric values dropped today, ranging from a high of 30.26″ at 0025 down to 30.04″ at 2352.

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. 

My older daughter Tracy flew out this morning from DCA to Las Vegas to visit with her Mom, her sister Robin, and her nephew Gideon for a few days. She arrived safely – the next two days will go very fast for my family members reunited in Nevada temporarily! Forecast for Las Vegas for today and Tuesday looks to mostly sunny with high temps in the upper 60s, lows around 50° Monday night under partly cloudy skies. I spoke with Ray on the phone a couple of times, sandwiched in with a brief conversation with Marty who returned home from the conference earlier in the evening (and a successful conference it was!!) and a long phone call with Stan R, a long-time local observer friend who is having serious internet connection problems. I may be helping him out with internet wx info in the coming days if his email/internet is turned off as it appears will be this week. 

Monday looks a bit warmer and partly cloudy with highs around 70° and a 40 POP for showers/ thundershowers with lows in the upper 30s as a cold front finally drags through the area. Moisture doesn’t leave us the rest of the week, as Tuesday and Wednesday will cool back down to around 50° for highs under partly to mostly cloudy skies with a 60 POP for rain on Tuesday and a 70 POP on Wednesday and lows down in the upper 30s-lower 40s. Roughly the same on Thursday with highs in the low 50s and lows in the upper-mid 30s and a continued 50 POP for rain showers and cloudy skies. On Friday we finally should see the sun but with the coldest temperatures of the season, highs only in the mid 40s and probably our first freeze of the season with lows in the 20s.

On the Channel 4 weather website at 0810 their radar shows a SW-NE line of showers and embedded thundershowers lying just to our west out in the mountains of western Maryland and sections of West Virginia. The whole mass is moving east but individual cells are moving along the front from SW to NE.

As of 0810, 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          58.9  97 58  29.99S   NA     58.5/51.4

There was 0.09″ of rain in the cocorahs gauge on Sunday. The VP2 tipping bucket rain gauge under my balcony also recorded 0.09″ of rain on Sunday, including a very
small 0.09″/hour max rain rate at 0020 EDT.

November precipitation is now 0.63″.

Year-to-date precipitation total is now 37.04″

WX Bug Lakewood 4500 ft, 59 97 58 30.00R SW 5 G WSW 8
                            140° from station                       59/51

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

Temp from the VP2 at 2400 was 58.5 RH 98% BP 30.04F DP 58. Cloudy, mild at midnight .

Good morning from the cloudy, cool, but dry for the moment Walrus early on this Monday.