The start of Sunday was cloudy, mild and wet (0.16″) overnight then clearing, windy, and gradually cooler in the later AM and PM hours as a cold front swept through the area. Temperatures started in the upper 50s then gradually cooled off all day, bottoming out around 40° by the late evening around midnight obs. Dew points dropped all day, starting in the mid 50s and ending in the late evening in the upper 20s. At 0646 we have mostly clear skies with temperatures in the mid 30s. The Sunday minimum temperature from the VP2 (40.0°) was recorded at 2342 while the maximum temperature (59.0°) was recorded at 0000. Dew point temps ranged from 54° early down to 28° late. Relative humidity values rose a bit today (95% – 52%). Barometric values started out quite low in the early AM then steadily rose the rest of the day, ranging from a low of 29.30″ at 0230 up to 30.00″ at 2358.

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 woke up in the early afternoon and watched early football on my phone on the NFL mobile app, then the rest of the Redskins and Ravens games on my 50″ HD TV in the living room. I had 2 sausage, egg and cheese biscuits for a late breakfast. I spoke with Robin later via Face Time from her car with Gideon in the back seat, and Ray during the games mostly about the games and the overnight rain amounts. Later on for supper I had a bagel with smoked salmon cream cheese and cajun crab, along with some potato salad, kimchee and marinated mushrooms. I had my usual vitamins, supplements and ice water throughout the evening after some dinnertime spicy low-sodium V8.

We are mostly clear early this morning with temps in the mid 30s. Partly sunny on Monday with highs around 50° and lows in the mid 30s. Tuesday should be sunny with temps warming into the upper 50s, lows in the low-mid 40s. Wednesday should be cooler under partly cloudy skies, with highs in the upper 40s and lows in the mid 20s. Thanksgiving Day Thursday should find us mostly sunny with scattered clouds at times with highs in the mid 40s, lows around 30°. Black Friday should be sunny with highs around 50° and lows in the mid 30s.

On the Channel 4 weather website at 0646 radar is still showing some scattered snow showers off to my west and northwest over the WV, western MD and PA hilly areas.

As of 0646, 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          36.2  61  24 30.15R   NA     59.0/40.0

There was 0.16″ of precipitation in my cocorahs gauge on Sunday through midnight. The VP2 tipping bucket rain gauge under my balcony recorded a total of 0.10″ of rain through midnight obs on Sunday.

November precipitation is 2.09″.

Year-to-date precipitation total is now 38.50″

WX Bug Lakewood 4500 ft, 35 56 21 30.11R SW 4 G W 12
                              140° from station                       59/39

The Lakewood rain gauge recorded 0.15″ of rain through midnight on Sunday. The monthly precipitation total is now being reported as 2.22″ partially based on data from the Weatherbug 10 app on my phone with some of the earlier in the month values shown estimated from radar, but updating real amounts more recently as it looks to me now.

Temp from the VP2 at 2400 was 40.1 RH 65% BP 29.99R DP 29.3. PCloudy, cool at midnight.

Good morning from the clear, cooler, drying out Walrus early on this Monday.