Wednesday featured a bit of clouds early and a very light shower/sprinkle (T) that gave way to slowly improving conditions as this day progressed. High temperatures only reached the low 80s, with dew points lowering through the 60s. Now at 0650 we have mostly cloudy skies but with no rain falling in the area. Temperatures are in the mid 60s with dew points in the more comfortable upper 50s. The Monday minimum temperature from the VP2 in the shelter on the ground nearby (71.2°) was recorded at 2354 while the maximum temperature (81.7°) was recorded at 1531. Dew point temps dropped all day today ranging from 74° (early) down to 59° (late). Relative humidity values lowered a bit today (91% – 50%). Barometric values dropped somewhat today, ranging from 29.92″ at 2358 to 29.79″ at 0435.

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 a bit earlier today, as I had hoped to make a run with Uber Mike to the post office to mail a special package to my daughter Robin out in Las Vegas. But things didn’t work out, and we will go on Friday. I had cereal, banana, coffee and prune juice by late afternoon. I worked a lot more on my backlog of climate data through the evening, finishing up another month with one more month to go, interspersed with phone conversations with Tracy, Robin and a long one in the evening with Marty. I did have a nice dinner with baked fish fillets, broccoli and some left over rice a roni. I had some spicy low-sodium V8 around dinner time and much later snacked on a few triscuit crackers. I had my usual water intake and vitamins and medicines that I take every day.

We now have mostly cloudy skies and temperatures in the mid 60s at 0650. Cooler temps the rest of the week, with highs in the upper 70s Thursday through Sunday with lows around 60° Thursday night 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 the beginning of talk about the current busy tropic activity in the Gulf of Mexico perhaps coming up to our area for a visit late next week. Too far out in time to be sure of that, but the speculation has started based on the longer term forecast models.

On Channel 4 radar at 0650 we have scattered light showers off the Carolina and Virginia coast out in the Atlantic Ocean, but won’t move close to this area. Moisture is rampant in parts of the Gulf Coast States, and will only increase in the next few days. It bears watching, that is for sure in the coming days.

As of 0650 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 66.8 76 59 29.96R NA 81.7/71.2

There was a trace of rain recorded on Wednesday (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) 67.8 75 60 29.99R NA 83.0/72.5

There was 0.01″ of rain recorded in the USG gauge on Wednesday.

WX Bug Lakewood 4500 ft, 67 66.9 55.9 29.97R NE 4 G NE 8
140° from station 83/72

The Lakewood rain gauge reported no rain on Wednesday.

Temp on the VP2 at 2400 was 71.2 RH 70% BP 29.92R DP 61.0.

Good morning from the cloudy, cooler and more pleasant Walrus early on this Thursday morning.