Another cold morning

Good Morning Augusta.

This morning it is mostly sunny. Highs will be in the lower 20s. Light and variable winds.

Tonight it will be cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow showers and not as cold as last night with lows around 19. Winds will be Southwest around 10 mph.

The readings outside right now, taken from my own instrumentation  are:

a relative humidity of 71% with a Dew Point of -1.2ºF.

The temperature is 6.5ºF with a wind chill of 6.5ºF, but that will increase when the wind velocity picks up.  

The wind velocity right now is between 0.4 mph and 1.3 mph out of the Southwest.

Our Barometric pressure is 30.43 and rising. The weather graphic indicates Sun. 

There was no measurable precipitation here over the past 24 hours.

Visibility is 10.0 miles with a fantastic ceiling. It is very clear and very cold outside.

From Weather Trivia:

Greatest snowfall in a day: 75.8 inches (Silver Lake, Colorado; April 14-15, 1921)

Greatest snowfall in a single storm: 189 inches (Mt. Shasta, California; February 13-19, 1959)

Saratoga Springs, NY greatest snowfall: 58 inches (1888, March 11-14)

Fastest surface wind speed: 231 miles per hour (Mount Washington, New Hampshire; April 12, 1934)

And, in spite of the bitter cold outside, I thought you'd be interested in:

"The amount of sunlight reaching the earth's surface is 6,000 times the amount of energy used by all human beings worldwide. The total amount of fossil fuel used by humans since the start of civilization is equivalent to less than 30 days of sunshine."

Makes you think a bit more fondly about solar panels, doesn't it?

And:

"The summer of 1995 was so hot that at the end of August, methane emitted within big bales of freshly-cut hay in Missouri began spontaneously combusting."