Wednesday featured colder temperatures with partly cloudy, blustery conditions and even some snow flurries falling at times in the area as high temperatures only reached the mid 40s after a few days above the 60° mark. See the featured image taken in the early afternoon from the back of the Kaiser Building in Gaithersburg about 5 miles north of my apartment for the blustery sky from there at that time (around 1300) The Wednesday maximum temperature from the VP2 (44.2°) was recorded at 0000 while the minimum temperature (31.5°) was recorded at 2359. My dew point temperatures lowered all day today, ranging from 32° at 0206 down to 23° at 1927. Relative humidity values started out lower in the early AM, then rose late in the day somewhat (72% – 59%). Barometric values rose today (late) from a low (early) of 29.87″ at 0017 up to a high of 30.25″ at 2357.

Remember now you can get the VP2 data on Weatherlink. You can access the data through http://www.weatherlink.com/user/walrusman444.

I am posting daily to weather underground. My ID is KMDROCKV200 and my station is called “Gardens of Traville.” Data is online, normally just about in real-time. I contribute daily to cocorahs as Rockville 2.8 WNW, Station ID MD-MG-115. Please remember that Weather Underground does not report snow data, and reflects what is recorded automatically through the tipping bucket VP2 gauge.

 After finishing my trivia preparation, I organized my December WX summary, statistics and data spreadsheet for publication on my weather together.net blog.

We have colder low 30s temps now under clear skies. Thursday should remain seasonably cool with low 40s for highs, mid 20s for lows under partly sunny skies. Friday looks to warm up a bit, with highs around 50° and lows in the mid 30s under sunny skies. Mostly sunny and milder on Saturday with highs in the upper 50s and lows in the mid 40s. Clouds and showers (90 POP) on Sunday, with highs in the mid 50s and lows in the mid 30s. Monday should be partly cloudy and cooler, with highs in the mid 40s and lows in the mid 20s.

On the Channel 4 weather website at 0904 radar is showing scattered snow showers coming off Lake Erie and falling in parts of NE Ohio and Western PA at this time.

As of 0904, 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:

Clear and colder at the present time.

Station Relative Location Temp RH DP    BP     Wind High/Low temp Wednesday
VP2           Ground          30.8  60  18 30.49R   NA     44.2/31.5

There was no precipitation in the cocorahs gauge on Wednesday through midnight obs. However, I must report an error in the precipitation total for Tuesday. Please take note that the total for 1/23 is 0.16″ and not 0.07″. I have made all adjustments to my statistics previously erroneously posted. The VP2 tipping bucket rain gauge under my balcony recorded no precipitation on Wednesday through midnight.

January precipitation is 1.67″.
Wednesday snowfall 0.0″
January snowfall is 1.2″.
Snow on ground 0.0″ (reported to the nearest half-inch)
The seasonal snowfall total is 5.0″.
Year-to-date precipitation total is 1.67″

WX Bug Lakewood 4500 ft, 30 57 16 30.44″R NNW 10 G NW 21
                           140° from station                          44/29

The Lakewood rain gauge recorded no precipitation on Wednesday. However it is now reporting 1.00″ monthly and yearly January 2018 precipitation, up an unexplicable 0.01″ from yesterday’s report.

Temperature from the VP2 at 2400 was 31.6 RH 72% BP 30.24R DP 23.6. Clear and colder at 2400.

Good morning from the clear, colder, snowless Walrus early on this Thursday morning.