Its 2013, and Congress lets the U.S. taxpayer down again!

Good morning Augusta.

This morning it is partly cloudy. High of 25F with a windchill as low as 3F. Winds from the WNW at 10 to 15 mph.

Tonight it will be partly cloudy, then clear. Low of -2F with a windchill as low as -15F. Winds from the WNW at 5 to 15 mph.

The readings from my own weather instruments are:

The humidity is 51% with a dew point of 11.8ºF and a wind chill of 10.4ºF.

The temperature is 27.4ºF. ºF.

Presently we have   West Southwest winds between 10.2 MPH and 21.9 MPH.

Our Barometric pressure is 29.60/HPA 1002.3 and rising with a weather graphic indicating clouds.

The UV rating is 0 out of 16, sunset will be at 4:10 PM with Moon Rise at 8:49 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, and the moon phase is waning gibbous.

For the pilots out there: Raw METAR is –

METAR KAUG 011253Z AUTO 29011G20KT 10SM SCT041 BKN049 M02/M11 A2963 RMK AO2 SLP040 T10171111

Visibility is 10.0 miles/16.1 Kilometers and scattered clouds to 4,100 ft / 1,249 m., and mostly cloudy down to 4,900 ft / 1,493 m.

We have had no rain or snow in this area in the past 24 hours.

Happy New Year. Congress failed to do their jobs yet again and we're going to be the ones to pay for it. As the reports all said, we're going to go through all of this again in about two months. If you did YOUR job like that, you'd have been fired a long time ago.