KEVIN'S VP2 BACKYARD WEATHER REPORT
5/18/12 at 7:00am. by Kevin Shaw at Gaithersburg, MD.
Thursday was a real pretty day, sunny, low dew
points, more comfortable temps in the lower 70s after pleasant
sleeping weather overnight with lows in the mid 50s. We should
drop down tonight to around 50, then rise into the mid 70s on
Friday with continued sunny skies. Upper 70s and sun on Saturday,
then sun and highs around 80 on Sunday. Next week looks partly
cloudy with highs in the upper 70s and a 30 POP for showers and
storms each day. Lows from Saturday night on should be somewhere
in the 50s. Got a bit of a download problem with my VP2 right now
that I hope I will be able to resolve sometime real soon, like
tomorrow night or over the weekend.
I attended our May 2012 DC-AMS Chapter
meeting on Thursday evening at the NWS Operations Center in the
building next to where I work in Silver Spring. There was a
presentation on Space Weather by Bob Rutledge of the NWS Space
Weather Prediction Center in Boulder CO. He spoke in general terms
of the solar activity which they monitor and try to predict when
solar mass ejections, etc head towards earth, figuring out when
they should arrive, how strong they are, and what affects, if any,
they will have on GPS, communications, etc here on earth. They
have a website with a lot of information about what is going on in
space, and they also have an email system where you can get
updates on email of solar activity that might/will have an affect
on earth and its systems.
They had a teleconference set up so he gave his presentation
remotely from his Boulder office. It was interactive, we could
ask him questions through microphones hanging from the ceiling...
Pretty interesting... They had some snacks at the meeting tonight,
but certainly nothing that could be close to approximating a meal.
Pretzels, tomato crackers that were quite good actually, small
bottled water, crackers with cheese - that sort of stuff.
Thursday's
precipitation: 0
May's total precipitation: 2.56"
2012 annual YTD precipitation total: 10.86"
VP2 data for Thursday as follows:
High temp 73.4° (1818)
Low temp 55.4° (2359)
Obs temp tonight 53.4°
Relative humidity ranged from a max of 85% (0029) to a low of 34%
(1723)
Dew point ranged from 62° to 47°
Peak Wind Gust 13 MPH from the NE (1005)
Pressures ranged from 30.15"(2319) to 29.94"(0007).
At midnight EDT obs the temp was 55.4°. Clear. Winds Calm,
barometer 30.14" and rising, humidity 74% with a dew point of
47°.
Currently at 0225 EDT the temp is 50.9°, Clear, Winds Calm,
barometer 30.14" and rising, humidity 85% with a dew point of 47°.
Current radar shows scattered showers over the north half of MI,
and also in parts of North Carolina, along the coast and back in
the Smokies in the western part of the state.
For now, hopefully very temporary, my online real time weather
station status is on hiatus - not updating right now. Stay tuned
for updates. Thanks for yor patience and understanding.
My WX
Underground Station ID is KMDGAITH11. To see my data, both
historic and realtime, use the following URL: http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KMDGAITH11
My
CWOP Station ID is DW4566. To see my data use the following URL:
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?call=DW4566
Kevin the Walrus from Gaithersburg Maryland,
signing off early on Friday morning.