On Monday, we had mostly cloudy skies, cold with temps holding in the 30s most of the day, just topping over the 40° in the late afternoon. A snowstorm was building to the S and W moving in on our area, but didn’t materialize anything more than a scant trace at my location, and never accumulating on the ground, even on the grass that I saw. Other locations in the region got as much as 1-2 inches, and a lot more as you headed north and east into NJ, PA and points further. Temps have held below freezing overnight into Tuesday, with winds starting to pick up on the backside of the storm in the drier, more blustery part of the storm. The Monday maximum temperature from the VP2 (40.7°) was recorded at 1607 while the minimum temperature (32.3°) was recorded at 0738. Dew point temperatures were a bit higher than yesterday, ranging from a low of 21° at 0425 up to a high of 31° at 1918. Relative humidity values raised some today, expecially in the evening hours (85% – 54%). Barometric values lowered some today, ranging from an early high of 30.08″ at 0000 down to a low of 29.83″ later at 1743.

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.

I spoke with Ray several times, as his weather station (Ambient Weather WS 2902) order was messed up by the Amazon truck driver. Hopefully Ray will get his delivery during the day on Tuesday. Amazon customer service was quite good in this case, and without any loud complaining by me, I got a $20 credit on my next Amazon order for the problems we had to endure. I picked up my mail, including the February NJWO WEATHERSHELTER issue. I am currently working on entering my February data into the master 2018 spreadsheet, which I use as a base for the report I generate for weathertogether online and the monthly WEATHERSHELTER publication. I should be finished with it sometime this week. I did some much needed science fair email correspondence as action is really ramping up at the busiest time of the local science fair season. I found more prune juice and also had spicy low-sodium V8 juice along with my vitamins, supplements and ice water later on.

It was mostly cloudy and cold in the early AM on Monday and generally remained that way in the afternoon. Clouds thickened, temps dropped towards evening and dew point temperatures rose to come close to meeting the air temperature. There was snow falling above me for sure, supported by radar, but only a few flakes trickled down that I could see. Tuesday has started out clear and cold (see today’s featured image) with temps just below the freezing mark. Winds are picking up on the backside of the storm and should remain that way over the next few days. Partly cloudy with high temps in the mid 40s as it looks now along with the wind, lows should be in the mid 20s. Wednesday should be mostly cloudy, windy and a bit colder with highs around 40° and lows in the mid 20s. Thursday looks to start warming up under mostly cloudy skies, with highs in the upper 40s and lows in the upper 20s and the wind slowly decreasing. Friday looks to be partly cloudy and colder, with highs in the upper 30s and lows in the mid 20s. St Patrick’s Day Saturday looks to be bouncing back again to the warmer side under mostly sunny skies, with high temps around 50° and lows in the upper 20s.

On the Channel 4 weather website at 0841 radar is showing the latest Nor’easter roaring its 1-3″/hour snow over most of New England, parts of NY and NJ at this time. There are some snow showers out in the mountains to the W and NW over parts of PA, WV, VA and OH heading SE but will dry out coming over the mountains due to compression heating/drying on the lee side of the Appalachians.

As of 0841 EDT, 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, cold and dry.

Station Relative Location Temp RH DP    BP     Wind High/Low temp Monday
VP2             Ground           31.6  64 21 29.88R   NA     40.7/32.3

The total precipitation in the cocorahs gauge was a Trace through midnight Monday. The VP2 tipping bucket rain gauge under my balcony had 0.00″ through midnight Monday.

Monday’s precipitation was a Trace
March precipitation is 0.44″.
Monday’s snowfall T
March snowfall now 0.3″
Snow on ground 0 (reported to the nearest half-inch)
The seasonal snowfall total is 7.8″.
Year-to-date precipitation total is 7.07″

WX Bug Lakewood 4500 ft, 31 63 19 29.85″R NNW 12 G NNW 21
                              140° from station                          40/29

The Lakewood rain gauge recorded 0.00″ of precipitation on Monday. It is reporting a total of 0.90″ of precipitation so far in March and a 2018 year-to-date (YTD) amount of 8.41″.

At 2400 obs Sunday night the temperature from the VP2 was 33.8 RH 85% BP 29.84″S DP 29.8 .

Cloudy, cold, dry, no snow on the ground

Good morning from the sunny and cold home of the Walrus early on this Tuesday.