Saturday continued our brief warmup under sunny skies early but increasing clouds in the late AM and PM. We failed to register a freezing AM min, only the sixth time that has happened this month. The Saturday maximum temperature from the VP2 (59.6°) was recorded at 1452 while the minimum temperature (33.1°) was recorded at 0359. My dew point temperatures rose significantly from yesterday, ranging from a low of 25° early at 0606 up to 46° at 1424. Relative humidity values lowered a bit today (78% – 48%). Barometric values started falling today with our big HIGH pressure that was over us on Friday with an area of LOW pressure from the SW that will be giving us rain on Sunday, ranging from an AM high of 30.56″ at 0000 down to a low of 30.28″ at 2342.

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.

We are cooling down a bit this morning into the upper 40s with clouds predominating and occasional light rain falling (0.04″ so far since midnight according to my tipping VP2 gauge). Cloudy with rain (80 POP) all day on Sunday, with highs around 50° and lows in the mid 30s. Monday should be partly cloudy and a tad cooler, with highs in the upper 40s and lows around 30°. Colder on Tuesday with cloudy skies and AM snow showers possible (50 POP) and blustery conditions with highs only up to the mid 30s and lows in the upper teens. Wednesday should feature a return to mostly sunny skies as we wrap up the month of January with highs in the upper 30s and lows around 30°. February will start out on Thursday in a milder note under partly cloudy skies, with highs in the low 50s and lows around freezing.

On the Channel 4 weather website at 0917 radar is showing rain throughout the four state region with numerous shower cells moving SW to NE at this time.

As of 0917, 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:

Cloudy with occasional light rain and still mild at the present time.

Station Relative Location Temp RH DP    BP     Wind High/Low temp Saturday
VP2             Ground         50.1 95  49 30.28S   NA     59.6/33.1

There was no precipitation in the cocorahs gauge on Saturday through midnight obs. The VP2 tipping bucket rain gauge under my balcony also recorded no precipitation on Saturday through midnight.

January precipitation is 1.67″.
Saturday 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, 50 100 50 30.28″S Calm G S 2
                            140° from station                       61/34

The Lakewood rain gauge recorded no precipitation on Saturday. It is reporting 1.83″ monthly and yearly January 2018 precipitation, unchanged from yesterday’s report. So far on Sunday it has recorded 0.06″ of rain from midnight to the present time.

Temperature from the VP2 at 2400 was 55.0 RH 69% BP 30.28F DP 45.1. Cloudy and much warmer at 2400.

Good morning from the cloudy (with occasional light rain falling), mild and still a snowless Walrus on this Sunday morning