Its Friday!

It is a wonderful, sunny and dry morning here in Augusta Maine. We are expecting our temps to reach the low to mid 60's. We will end up with a very seasonal day, with the winds steadily picking up as the day progresses.  

This morning's readings are:

a relative humidity of 88% with a Dew Point of 46.3ºF.

The temperature is 49.5ºF, with almost no wind chill at this time.

The wind velocity is presently between 3.0 mph and 6.2 mph out of the South Southwest. Winds are expected to increase as the day goes on, but maximum gusts are not known at this time.  

Our Barometric pressure is 29.63 and rising.

There was no rainfall in the past 24 hours, with none in today's forecast.   

 

More for your preparation of this election season:

Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

 

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.

Thomas Paine

 

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

George Bernard Shaw

 

ALLIANCE, n.  In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Ambrose Bierce

 

ARENA, n.  In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.

Ambrose Bierce