Tuesday was partly sunny, hot and quite humid with dew point temperatures approaching the very uncomfortable 80° mark. Showers and storms threatened later in the day at times, but never reached my station. Considerable cumulus cloud buildups occurred once again in the mid-late afternoon. Now at 0708 we have cloudy skies and rain showers in the area, but nothing falling at my location at the present time. Temperatures are in the low 70s with dew points just below that around 70°. The Monday minimum temperature from the VP2 in the shelter on the ground nearby (71.3°) was recorded at 0633 while the maximum temperature (90.4°) was recorded at 1357. Dew point temps stayed high again today ranging from 70° up to 79°. Relative humidity values raised a bit today (98% – 60%). Barometric values dropped today, ranging from 30.10″ at 0002 to 29.78″ at 2114.

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 rose late again today, showering as was desperately needed. I had basically only one meal all day, which was another bagel (toaster not working for some reason) with left over skirt steak and hot pepper cheese warmed up in the microwave along with another grilled portabella mushroom brushed in olive oil. So delicious! I also had some broccoli cheddar rice a roni cooked with a few sliced button mushrooms. I mostly worked on finalizing all the my summaries and data spread sheets to final PDF format, and emailed it out to around 50 of my closest weather friends well after midnight. If any of you out there didn’t get it and would like it, just let me know. I was in touch with Robin and Tracy on the phone/ face-time, plus many others online on FACEBOOK and through email. I had some prune juice and regular low-sodium V8 around dinner time. I had a KLONDIKE bar for dessert much later. I had my usual water intake and vitamins and medicines that I take every day.

We now have cloudy skies with showers in the area and temperatures in the low 70s at 0708. Cooler temps the rest of the week, with highs in the low 80s on Wednesday and in the upper 70s Thursday through Sunday with lows around 60° Wednesday and Thursday nights and in the upper 50s on Friday,Saturday and Sunday nights. It should be sunny to partly cloudy with lower dew points that should make things fairly comfortable. There is a slight (30 POP) chance for showers this morning then dry thereafter through the weekend.

On Channel 4 radar at 0708 we have scattered light showers moving through the area being pushed through by a cold front that will clear us out and give us comfortable days through the weekend.

As of 0708 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), the Lakewood 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 72.0 91 69 29.83S NA 90.4/71.3

There was no rain recorded on Tuesday (cocorahs gauge – now located off the apartment property across the street from my initial two locations just off the inactive putting green – near the Montessori School playground. No sprinklers there at all on this county property)

August precipitation is 3.71″

Year-to-date (YTD) precipitation total is 30.62″

VP2 Across the street (USG) 72.6 90 70 29.86S NA 92.9/72.1

There was 0.01″ of rain recorded in the USG gauge on Tuesday. I think that was drip through from yesterday. It recorded early in the morning.

WX Bug Lakewood 4500 ft, 73 81.3 66.7 29.84S W 6 G W 18
140° from station 94/72

The Lakewood rain gauge reported no rain on Tuesday.

Temp on the VP2 at 2400 was 80.2 RH 80% BP 29.81R DP 73.5.

Good morning from the cloudy, warm and still muggy Walrus early on this Wednesday morning.