Monday started out cloudy with overnight light rain (0.13″) that ended before dawn then we had a partly cloudy afternoon with temps rising up a bit into the upper 40s. Dew points rose some from yesterday, from the mid 30s up to the low 40s. At 0756 we have a stratocumulus overcast sky, light winds, and moderating temperatures into the low 40s with dew points up into the upper 30s. The Monday minimum temperature from the VP2 (37.7°) was recorded at 0735 while the maximum temperature (48.4°) was recorded at 1357. Dew point temps ranged from 34° up to 41°. Relative humidity values rose quite a bit today (95% – 74%). Barometric values continued to drop some more from yesterday, ranging from a high of 30.37″ at 0000 lowering to 30.31″ at 1352.

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 continued to work on my October weather data compilation into my master excel spreadsheet form, finishing up data entry with just the written summary to come. I talked with Marty for a bit on a variety of weather items. I tried to catch up on my email and FACEBOOK communications, particularly fascinated with a scanned copy of the January 1972 Metropolitan Climate Review, a comprehensive report with many maps and data from that month for the Washington DC area compiled by Clarence Woollum, former head of the Washington DC Weather Bureau Forecast office. 

We are cloudy this morning with temps around 40°, warming up overnight a bit with a cloud cover coming in. Tuesday and Wednesday should be partly cloudy with high temps hovering around the 50° mark with lows around freezing on Tuesday and around 40° on Wednesday. Thursday should moderate a bit more under continued party cloudy skies with highs in the mid 50s and lows around 30°. Turning a bit cooler on Friday during the day with highs in the upper 40s and lows in the upper 30s under partly cloudy skies. At this point it appears that Saturday will be cloudy and rainy, with highs in the mid 50s and lows around 40°.

On the Channel 4 weather website at 0756 radar shows very little precipitation in the Eastern US north of Florida, with only a few light showers over parts of CT and offshore the southeastern New England coast.

As of 0756, 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          40.8  88  37 30.40R   NA     48.4/37.7

There was 0.13″ of precipitation in my cocorahs gauge on Monday through midnight. The VP2 tipping bucket rain gauge under my balcony recorded only 0.07″ of precipitation through midnight obs on Monday.

November precipitation is now 1.91″.

Year-to-date precipitation total is now 38.32″

WX Bug Lakewood 4500 ft, 40 85 36 30.35R WNW 1 G NNW 3
                            140° from my station                   48/36

The Lakewood rain gauge recorded 0.04″ of rain through midnight on Monday. The clog issue appears to be behind us, but the station is resuming its history of apparent under-reporting amounts when compared with mine, less than a mile away. I will say that their webpage is reporting 1.95″ of rain for the month so far, which is very close to my total. They must have made some adjustments, including finding all that rain that was not reported at the time during their recent “apparent clog” outage.

Temp from the VP2 at 2400 was 40.6 RH 90% BP 30.52S DP 37.9. PCloudy, relatively cold and dry at midnight .

Good morning from the cloudy, cool, and dry Walrus early on this Tuesday.