Sunday was mostly sunny, warm and dry once again. Temperatures rose into the mid 80s with lows in the mid 60s. Dew points started out lower (upper 50s) but later rose to the 70° mark. Now at 0728 we have clear skies with temperatures in the mid 60s and the dew points in the lower 60s. The Saturday minimum temperature from the VP2 in the shelter on the ground below my balcony (64.7°) was recorded at 0421 while the maximum temperature (85.7°) was recorded at 1457. Dew point temps ranged from 59° up to 70°. Relative humidity values were higher than yesterday (89% – 54%). Barometric values were about the same as yesterday, ranging from 30.12″ at 0912 down to 30.02″ at 1704.

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

I was still up in the morning with a Thunderbird (my email program) tech support expert trying to get a problem resolved. It took a while and now I have somewhat of a cleanup and restoration to get my email restored to its old, smooth-operating state. Also watched a bit of the Ravens/Jaguars pro football game on Yahoo from England in the late morning when not directly helping the tech support expert. He took control of my computer to get my mail server changed from POP to IMAP. I finally got some rest about midday to early evening, and caught the Sunday night game, won by the Redskins 27-10 over the Raiders, and also the NO MERCY special wrestling show also on in the evening over the internet. I talked off and on a few times with Ray about his current cell phone status and the Ravens collapse against Jacksonville (they lost 44-7). I cooked up a frozen deluxe pizza with added mushrooms, hot peppers and cheese in the oven. It was yummy! I talked later with Robin on her way home from Gideon’s early 1st birthday photo shoot. She sent me some videos of Gideon all dressed up eating a cake and messing himself all up. I will be looking forward to seeing the photographer’s pictures very soon. I also caught up some on my email and facebook messaging later during the evening, along with trying to send in a grocery delivery order into Safeway online that is my current problem that will have to wait to be transmitted till I can talk to their customer service during the day on Monday. I had some prune juice and spicy low-sodium V8 juice right around dinner time, a klondike bar for dessert and plenty of water and vitamins throughout the evening.

We now have clear skies with a few scattered high cirrus clouds with temperatures in the mid 60s at 0728 Monday. Sunny to partly cloudy skies will dominate our weather Monday through Wednesday with very warm and dry conditions continuing. High temps should be in the mid-upper 80s with lows in the mid 60s. Some of those clouds will be from the outside dying bands of weakening Hurricane Maria, currently a CAT 1 well east of the Florida coast heading north. Thursday should turn a bit cooler, with highs in the upper 70s and lows in the low-mid 50s. Cooler air will be working its way in by the end of the week and into the weekend as we transition from September into October with rain hopefully starting to fall again at the beginning of next week.

On Weatherbug at 0728 the radar is clear north and east of Florida and Alabama at this time.

As of 0728 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 69.9 87 66 30.03S NA 85.7/64.7

There was no rain in the cocorahs gauge on Sunday.

September precipitation through midnight obs tonight was 2.56″.

Year-to-date precipitation total is now computed at 33.56″

VP2 Across the street (USG) NA NA NA 30.08S NA NA/NA

There was no rain reported once again in the USG gauge on Sunday. The USG VP2 continues to stay offline all day and is not providing me most data sets (save for barometric pressure readings).

WX Bug Lakewood 4500 ft, 67 95.6 65.3 30.04S Calm G SSE 1
140° from station 88/69

The Lakewood rain gauge reported no rain on Sunday.

Temp from the VP2 at 2400 was 69.7 RH 90% BP 30.04F DP 66.7.

Good morning from the sunny and mild Walrus early on this Monday.