Thursday featured partly to mostly cloudy skies, cooler temperatures and pleasant dew point temperatures. High temperatures only reached the upper 70s, with dew points in the lower 60s and upper 50s. Now at 0452 we have mostly cloudy skies with 0.11″ of rain falling since midnight in the USG gauge, and 0.09″ falling in my VP2 gauge. Rain has stopped for now. I don’t think we will have any more the rest of the day. Temperatures are in the mid 60s with dew points in the lower 60s. The Thursday minimum temperature from the VP2 in the shelter on the ground nearby (65.8°) was recorded at 0340 while the maximum temperature (78.8°) was recorded at 1453. Dew point temps dropped a bit more today, ranging from 62° down to 56°. Relative humidity values lowered a bit today (84% – 48%). Barometric values rose somewhat today, ranging from 29.90″ at 0227 up to 30.00″ at 2359.

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 mid-afternoon today to the phone call of Tracy who was on her way to work. I took a shower to get refreshed then I had cereal, banana, and coffee by late afternoon before the weekly trivia game at 1830. I also spoke briefly with Ray before trivia. I worked a bit more on my backlog of climate data and data publishing at times during the evening. I also watched the thrilling conclusion to the Nats/Astros baseball game, won by Washington 5-4. I had a quick dinner of seafood and crab salad on a bagel, along with some potato and orzo salads. I had some spicy low-sodium V8 around dinner time and much later snacked on a few cashews. 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 0452. Cooler temps the rest of the week through the weekend, with highs in the mid-upper 70s Friday through Monday with lows in the upper 50s to around 60°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 tropical 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 0452 the showers we had earlier from just after midnight till about 0230 or so have moved away, off to the east. It appears clear to my west.

As of 0452 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 64.0 92 62 30.04R NA 78.8/65.8

There was no rain recorded on Thursday (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) There was 0.09″ recorded in my VP2 tipping bucket since midnight.

August precipitation is 3.71″

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

VP2 Across the street (USG) 64.1 90 61 30.07R NA 86.0/67.3

There was no rain recorded in the USG gauge on Thursday. However, there has been 0.11″ recorded in the USG VP2 tipping bucket since midnight.

WX Bug Lakewood 4500 ft, 64 86.9 59.9 30.05R Calm G W 15
140° from station 83/72

The Lakewood rain gauge reported no rain on Thursday. 0.15″ has been recorded since midnight.

Temp on the VP2 at 2400 was 72.2 RH 63% BP 30.00R DP 58.9.

Good morning from the cloudy, cooler and slightly wet Walrus early on this Friday morning.