Sunday finally broke our week-long rainy streak with partly cloudy, warmer, dry weather all day. Morning mugginess continued, but started to dry out a bit in the afternoon and evening PM hours. Temperatures rose from the upper 60s early into the warm mid 80s by mid-afternoon under partly cloudy (scattered cumulus) skies. Flood warnings continue to be posted along a few of the major rivers. The Sunday maximum temperature reached 86.3° @ 1628, while the Sunday minimum temperature was a muggy 68.7° very early @ 0001. The dew point temperatures rose again in the morning but started to fall off later in the day, ranging from a high of 72° @ 0956 down to a low of 63° later @ 1802. The barometric pressure lowered a bit from Saturday – lowest of 29.99″ @ 1730 and highest 30.08″ later @ 2308. The relative humidity waso quite high at the very start of the day but started dropping off with the sun and warmer temps, ranging from a high of 98% at 0000 down to a low of 48% at 1802, psynched perfectly with the aforementioned lowest dew point temperature of 63° @ at the same time.

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. The web address for my data on weather underground is: https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMDrockv200#history/ I contribute daily to cocorahs as Rockville 2.8 WNW, Station ID MD-MG-115 on https://www.cocorahs.org/ Please remember that Weather Underground does not report snow data, and reflects what is recorded automatically through the tipping bucket VP2 gauge. I use the data I post to cocorahs as my “official” precipitation total each day.

I actually saw the sun when I got up for the first time since briefly on Tuesday early (before the storms blew in). I didn’t do very much today, did some more data entry on my April monthly spreadsheet, finishing up round 1 of the 3 part process. I am trying to finish up items in my refrigerator before ordering more food, as I also must complete the cleaning of the refrigerator. I interacted with Marty who is in Montana visiting family, including viewing him on a webcam from Red Lodge MT. He later sent me some pics of snow he found, including his nieces throwing snowballs at him (the camera phone). I spoke with Ray for a time during the evening, and later texted a bit with Robin. (Her phone was on the fritz – so was mine for a time till I rebooted it). I had a hot toasted bagel sandwich with deli ham and slices of smoked gouda cheese, along with some macaroni salad and the remaining orzo salad. I did have some prune juice and low sodium spicy V8 in the mid-evening, and my usual ice water, supplements and prescription drugs.

Partly cloudy (cumulus dotting the afternoon sky), warm, dry conditions took over for Sunday’s weather, and we started to dry out from the almost 5 inches of rain we had over the past week. It warmed up into the mid 80s, warmest day since last Tuesday when I had last seen the sun. As I write this late on Monday morning we have a broken overcast of altocumulus skies and cooler temps in the mid 70s and dew points a bit drier around the 60° mark. Temps should max out in the upper 70s later, lows in the low-mid 60s. Tuesday looks to have mostly cloudy skies, with highs in the upper 70s and lows in the mid 60s, and an 80 POP for thunderstorms. Wednesday should be partly cloudy with highs around 80° and lows in the upper 50s and the rain chances reduced down to a 20 POP. Thursday should be sunny with highs in the low 80s and lows around 60°. Friday should be mostly sunny and a bit warmer, with highs in the mid 80s and lows in the mid 60s. Systems this week look to be moving better, without those stalled patterns we had last week.

On the Channel 4 radar at 1148 is showing a few widely scattered showers over central OH and SW VA/adjoining areas in NC at this time. More organized and widespread showers and thundershowers can be found further west out in the midwest, through much of WI, IL, IA, IN and MI at this time, slowly heading our way for tomorrow.

As of 1148, 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 WX Bug station are as follows:

Partly sunny, warm, a bit drier with scattered altocumulus and altostratus covering a good part of the sky

Station Relative Location Temp   RH    DP     BP   Wind High/Low temp on Sunday
VP2             Ground           74.1°   63% 61° 30.21″S NA   86.3°/69.7°

The total precipitation in the cocorahs gauge was 0.00″ through midnight Sunday.

Sunday’s precipitation was 0.00″
May precipitation is 4.90″
Year-to-date precipitation total is 16.64″

WX Bug Lakewood 4500 ft, 76° 54% 58° 30.26″S Calm G NE 10
                              140° from station                          88°/69°

The Lakewood rain gauge reported 0.22″ of precipitation on Sunday. May is now showing 6.57″ for the month with the 2018 year-to-date (YTD) amount now at 21.38″. I still believe at times the great disparity between the Lakewood WX Bug station precipitation amount total for the month and year and my cocorahs gauge based data is that the Lakewood precip values are estimated/adjusted from radar.

At 2400 obs Sunday night the temperature from the VP2 was 75.4° RH 67% BP 30.07″S DP 63.7°
Clear, drying out, a bit less muggy at 2400 Sunday

Good late morning from the partly cloudy, warm, slightly drier home of the walrus on this Monday.