Friday featured partly to mostly cloudy skies, even cooler temperatures, with light rain to start the day in the very early AM from just after midnight to about 0230 (0.11″) . High temperatures only reached the mid 70s, with dew points in the lower 60s and upper 50s. Now at 0549 we have fair skies with temperatures in the low-mid 60s and dew points in the mid-upper 50s. The Friday minimum temperature from the VP2 in the shelter on the ground nearby (62.0°) was recorded at 0714 while the maximum temperature (76.4°) was recorded at 1610. Dew point temps rose a bit today due to the morning rain, ranging from 64° down to 58°. Relative humidity values rose a bit today for the same reason (95% – 55%). Barometric values rose significantly today, ranging from 30.00″ at 0000 up to 30.21″ at 2330.

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 midday today to prepare for going to the post office to send a priority mail package to Tracy and Gideon (delivery expected on Monday) and then have a late lunch at La Mexicana thereafter with my driver friend Mike, and to exchange items with Tracy. Except I didn’t get what I was supposed to pick up from Tracy. I got her the items she was expecting plus a surprise that she wasn’t expecting. Just great to see her and get some great Mexican food and some cerveza. I had a mixed up day meal-wise, as I had a late evening “meal” of cereal, banana, and coffee. The big problem I had most of the day was with my cell phone. My USB cable that I use to charge my phone and transfer pics from my phone into my desktop computer with is not working well at all. Charging is performing poorly if not at all. I got online with Verizon and wound up ordering a lightning charge charger that I will get sometime next week. It finally dawned on me from when this happened before I kept the cable connected and turned the phone off. That seems to be the way I have use to charge my phone right now. I don’t care how, just as long as I can, so I have a line to the outside to keep in touch in the event of any problems or if others need to get a hold of me. I spoke briefly with Ray in the evening a few times but not for very long. I mostly followed the tremendous hurricane Harvey coverage on TWC and local TV on location in coastal Texas. I had some spicy low-sodium V8 in the later evening 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 fair skies and temperatures in the low-mid 60s at 0539. A bit warmer temps over the weekend, with highs in the upper 70s with lows in the upper 50s to around 60°. It should be sunny to partly cloudy with lower dew points that should make things fairly comfortable. Monday and Tuesday look cooler with highs in the low-mid 70s and a 30 POP for showers on Monday and a 50 POP for rain on Tuesday under partly to mostly cloudy skies, with lows in the low 60s.

On Channel 4 radar at 0539 the radar is essentially clear throughout the 6 state mid-Atlantic region with just a light shower in southern VA at the NC border.

As of 0539 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 64.9 75 57 30.20S NA 76.4/62.0

There was 0.11″ of rain recorded on Friday (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 0.10″ recorded in my VP2 tipping bucket with a max rain rate of 0.59″/hr at 0203.

August precipitation is 3.82″

Year-to-date (YTD) precipitation total is 30.73″

VP2 Across the street (USG) 64.7 77 57 30.23S NA 78.7/62.5

There was 0.11″ of rain recorded in the USG gauge on Friday. There was a max rain rate of only 0.15″/hr at 0208.

WX Bug Lakewood 4500 ft, 61 79.6 55 30.21S NE 5 G NE 9
140° from station 78/61

The Lakewood rain gauge reported 0.15″ of rain on Friday.

Temp on the VP2 at 2400 was 70.0 RH 66% BP 30.21S DP 58.1.

Good morning from the fair and fairly pleasant Walrus early on this Saturday morning.