Sunny this morning

It will be sunny today, Temps will reach the mid 30's

with light and variable winds.

Tonight it will be clear, changing to mostly cloudy, temps will be in the 20's with light and variable wind.

The readings outside right now are:

a relative humidity of 72% with a Dew Point of 24.2ºF.

The temperature is 32.2ºF with almost no wind chill.

The wind velocity is presently between 4.7 mph and 6.9 mph and when it blows it is out of the Northwest.

Our Barometric pressure is 30.57 and rising.

Yesterday we had  no measurable rainfall.

Visibility is 10.0 miles, it is cloudy with a wonderful ceiling.

To follow up on folklore weather tidbits from yesterday, I found these historical weather observation items that may interest you. Weather observations, being recorded, goes way, way back.

Jules Verne (1828-1905) in his book "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" writes "By degrees the fog disappeared under the action of the sun's rays, the radiant orb rose from behind the eastern horizon. The sea flamed under its glance like a train of gunpowder. The clouds scattered in the heights were coloured with lively tints of beautiful shades, and numerous "mare's tails," which betokened wind for that day."

A Shakespeare poem "Venus and Adonis", 1593, is described as "a long narrative poem that tells of Adonis' rejection of the goddess of love". In it an observation of the red sky is related to the coming weather.

Once more the ruby-coloured portal open,

Which to his speech did honey passage yield;

Like a red morn, that ever yet betokened

Wrack to the seaman, tempest to the field,

Sorrow to shepherds, woe unto the birds,

Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds. The Bible in Matthew chapter 16 verses 2-3 records red sky in both the morning and evening and relates it to the expected weather. Thus this weather pattern was known to folks over 2000 years ago.

"He answered and said unto them.

When it is evening ye say, it will be fair weather for the sky is red. And in the morning, it will be foul weather today for the sky is red and lowering. 0 ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?"     The contributor.

Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) wrote 150 philosophical treatises including one on Meteorology. Based on first-hand observations his thoughts on earth sciences encompassed rain, cloud, mist, dew, snow, hail, wind, thunder, lightning, hurricanes, haloes and rainbows.

*The above items prove that weather observations are world wide. It was thought that they had originated in England and migrated to the rest of the world. We now see that they were valid in the eastern Mediterranean over 2,000 years ago.