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

I got up in the mid afternoon to take a shower and talk to Ray, Marty and Tracy before going over to Building A for our weekly trivia game in the early evening. I managed to get in a bowl of cereal with a banana before the game, but saved the coffee till my return after the game, also catching up on a lot of my email and FB, including chat. Later in the evening I snacked on some triscuits and the rest of the guacamole, along with prune juice and spicy V8. I watched parts of the first preseason football game between the Ravens and the Redskins, won by Baltimore 23-3, and also the exciting 3-2 Nats win over the Marlins. I had a long, late conversation with Ray after midnight. I also had my usual water intake and vitamins and medicines that I take every day.

We now have cloudy skies, with temperatures dropping into the 60s and dew points rising a bit up into the mid 60s around 0705. On Friday and Saturday we will have partly to mostly cloudy skies with a 50 POP for showers/storms, and highs in the low 80s and lows in the 60s. Sunday looks to have similar temps with partly cloudy skies and now only a 10 POP for very isolated showers.

On Channel 4 radar at 0705 there are scattered light rain showers to my W and SW over parts of WV and VA which will develop during the daylight hours and move into our area later in the afternoon and evening.

As of 0705 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), Lakewood Country Club WXBug station and the USG VP2 station across the street are as follows :

Station Relative Location Temp RH DP BP Wind High/Low temp today
VP2 Ground 67.8 89 65 30.13S NA 82.9/61.9

There was no rain recorded today (cocorahs gauge on ground below – in between the US and State Flagpoles out a bit from my balcony)

August precipitation is 1.20″

Year-to-date (YTD) precipitation total is 28.11″

VP2 Across the street (USG) 69.1 84 64 30.16S NA 85.4/66.1

There was 0.06″ of water recorded in the USG gauge on Thursday. This amount is erroneous and is of unknown source, probably still slow drip through from our most recent rain.

WX Bug Lakewood 4500 ft, 69 N/A N/A N/A N/A G N/A
140° from station 85/60

The Lakewood rain gauge recorded no rain on Thursday.

Temp on the VP2 at 2400 was 70.0 RH 79% BP 30.16S DP 63.3.

Good morning from the cloudy, dry, and somewhat pleasant Walrus early on this Friday morning.