Kevin Shaw


  • Tuesday ushered in the new month of August with partly cloudy, warm, more humid with a brief light thundershower in the early afternoon. Stronger storms fired up by late afternoon, but were isolated and missed my […]

  • Monday was a sunny, dry, but increasingly warmer and more humid day with only scattered fair weather cumulus floating around at times. Now at 0650 we have clear skies and somewhat pleasant temperatures in the […]

  • Sunday was a sunny, pleasant, dry day with very little cloud cover most of the day. Now at 0515 we have clear skies and pleasant temperatures in the low 60s, with dew points in the still comfortable 60° range. […]

  • Saturday was a cloudy, cool, wet early (0.54″), drying out late day with slowly lifting clouds and pleasant breezes on my birthday Saturday. Beautiful day for my birthday! Flooding in other parts of the region […]

  • Friday was a cloudy, cool, very wet day with widespread flooding in the area (many flash flood warnings issued by NWS throughout the day), though I didn’t observe any flooding in my limited travels around […]

  • Thursday was a mostly cloudy, dry, warm day with dew points climbing further to the uncomfortable range. Now at 0521 we have fair skies with temperatures in the low 70s, with dew points around 70°. The Wednesday […]

  • Wednesday was a partly sunny, dry, warmer day with dew points starting to climb towards the end of the day. Now at 0407 we have mostly cloudy skies with warmer temperatures than last night at this time, in the low […]

  • Tuesday was a sunny, cooler, less humid, pleasant day. I even had a sub 80° max for the day (78.1°), only the second one this July (78.8° on the 6th was the only other one). Now at 0455 we have clear skies with co […]

  • Monday started out cloudy before sunrise with a bit of leftover light rain, then mostly cloudy, very warm  and quite humid, but cleared up in the evening as cooler, drier air started to move in. Temperatures […]

  • Kevin Shaw next to current VP2 station below my apartment balcony on the 4th floor. Also set as featured image is a picture of my cocorahs rain gauge in a unique tubular green holder that makes the operation of […]

  • Sunday started out cloudy before sunrise and quite humid, but cleared up briefly during the AM hours before clouding up by mid-day once again with a couple of periods of showers and storms during the afternoon and […]

  • Saturday started out calm and partly cloudy, but clouded up by mid-day with a couple of periods of thunderstormy, wet and cooling periods during the afternoon (1400-1430) and evening (after 1600) which yielded […]

  • Friday was yet another mostly sunny, hot, and humid day with no rain. Only a few scattered fair-weather cumulus dotted the sky at times in the heat of the afternoon. The temperatures rose up to the opprressive […]

  • Thursday was another mostly sunny, hot, and humid day with no rain. Only a few scattered fair-weather cumulus dotted the sky at times in the heat of the afternoon. The temperatures rose up to the opprressive […]

  • Wednesday was a mostly sunny, hot, and humid day with no rain. Only a few scattered fair-weather cumulus dotted the sky at times in the heat of the afternoon. The temperatures rose up to the opprressive mid 90s a […]

  • Tuesday was a partly cloudy, hot, humid day with a good mid-afternoon thunderstorm that yielded 0.39″ of rain and a max rain rate on the USG VP2 of 0.80″/hour at 1555.  Some changes have been made to the station […]

  • Thursday was a partly sunny, hot, dry but humid day that continued our week of heat and high dew points with the usual discomfort. I am still using the USG data for the time being, and all data references will be […]

  • Wednesday was a partly sunny, hot, dry but humid day that continued our week of heat and high dew points with the usual discomfort. Marty came over to reinstall my VP2 at ground level but hardware problems […]

  • Tuesday was a partly sunny, very warm, dry but more humid day that continued our week of heat and high dew points with the usual discomfort. The temperatures rose up into the upper 80s similar to yesterday after […]

  • Friday was cloudy in the morning and slightly wet (0.17″) that turned partly cloudy and warmer in the afternoon, as temps rose up in the mid 80s after the usual muggy warm low 70s mins during the early AM hours. […]

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