Monday's rainy report

Good morning from the northwest end of Augusta, Maine where we have another wet, rainy and gusty morning. Today's temps are not expected to go beyond 64 degrees with more rain throughout the day.    

This morning's readings are:

a relative humidity of 97% with a Dew Point of 53.6ºF.

The temperature is 54.5ºF. This morning we have no wind chill. 

The wind velocity this morning is between 3.7 mph and 5.5 mph out of the North Northwest. Our highest gust recorded in the past month remains 23.3 mph. 

our Barometric pressure is29.99 and rising.

Our rainfall in the past 24 hours was 1.26 in., in the past week a total of 2.48 in. has fallen

I have noted some confusion about wind direction reporting in the past few weeks, so to help those of you who have similar questions, I went to USA Today's web site and found the following explanation. I hope it helps.

 

Q: Are southwest winds coming from the southwest or blowing toward the southwest?

A: Wind direction is given as the direction from which it is blowing. Therefore, a southwest wind is blowing from the southwest and toward the northeast. While winds are always named for the direction of the source, confusion arises when directions are used in other contexts. For example, a "southerly" wind means that it is blowing from the south, but a ship that takes a "southerly" course is moving toward the south.