Sunny and breezy
Good Morning
This morning it is partly sunny with highs in the mid 30s and winds reaching 10 to 15 mph.
Tonight it will be partly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Colder with lows around 14 with winds around 10 mph.
The readings outside right now, taken from my own instrumentation are:
a relative humidity of 62% with a Dew Point of 22.5ºF.
The temperature is 34.2ºF with a wind chill of 21.1 ºF.
The wind velocity right now is between 5.8 mph and 9.2 mph out of the West.
Our Barometric pressure is 29.99 and rising. The weather graphic indicates sun.
We had no measurable precipitation over the past 24 hours.
Visibility is 10.0 miles with overcast down to 4,700 feet.
As you may have heard on the news recently, earth is currently being bathed with solar radiation from a massive solar flare from the sun.
How fast is a solar wind anyway? I looked it up:
Solar wind
speed: 570.9 km/sec
density: 0.8 protons/cm3
Understand now? Neither did I, so I clicked on the link that offered an explanation of the solar wind, and this is what it said:
Solar Wind Data
The solar wind data (velocity and proton density) presented on spaceweather.com are updated every 10 minutes. They are derived from real-time information transmitted to Earth from the ACE spacecraft and reported by the
That explanation left me more confused than I was when I started. But then again, I'm not a space scientist.
If you wish to look over the very interesting information, updated every 10 minutes by satellite, go to that web site at:
It really is an interesting web site, and just because I don't understand it doesn't mean others won't.
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