Clear, sunny and Meteor Showers tonight!
Good morning Augusta.
This morning it is clear with a high of 77F. Winds from the West at 5 to 10
mph.
Tonight it will be partly cloudy. Low of 61F. Winds less than 5 mph.
The readings from my own instruments are:
The humidity is 73% with a Dew Point of 53.6ºF and a wind chill of 62.3ºF.
The temperature is 62.5ºF.
We have North Northeast winds between 1.0 MPH and 4.3 MPH.
Our Barometric pressure is 29.93 HPA 1013.5 and steady with a weather
graphic indicating clouds.
The UV rating is 1 out of 16, sunset will be at 7:49 PM with Moon Rise at
10:35 a.m. and the moon phase is waxing crescent.
For the pilots out there, Raw Metar readings are:
METAR KAUG 111053Z AUTO 27004KT 10SM CLR 15/09 A3003 RMK AO2 SLP168
T01500094
Visibility is 10.0 miles/16.1 kilometers with clear conditions.
We've hadno rain here in the past 24 hours.
Tonight and tomorrow night wil feature some great meteor shower watching
times if your skies are clear and you aren't near bright city lights.
Enjoy the show.
The annual August Perseid meteor shower will put on its best show after
midnight on Sunday and Monday, according to the editors of StarDate
magazine.
Prime viewing time begins when the constellation Perseus rises into fine
view in the northeast. The waxing crescent Moon will have set by then and
will not obscure the view of any meteors. Under dark skies, viewers may see
up to a couple of dozen meteors per hour, particularly in the pre-dawn hours
of August 12.
Perseid meteors appear to fall from the constellation Perseus, but they are
not associated with it. The meteors are actually leftover debris from comet
Swift-Tuttle. The Perseid meteors recur each year when Earth passes through
its debris trail.
Published bi-monthly by UT Austin's McDonald Observatory, StarDate magazine
provides readers with skywatching tips, skymaps, beautiful astronomical
photos, astronomy news and features, and a 32-page Sky Almanac each January.
If you enjoy this sort of thing, go to the web site I got the foregoing
from:
http://www.utexas.edu/know/2013/08/07/look-up-perseid-meteor-shower-peaks-au
g-11-12/
There are a lot of really interesting items to be found there. Enjoy the
late summer evening.
This morning it is clear with a high of 77F. Winds from the West at 5 to 10
mph.
Tonight it will be partly cloudy. Low of 61F. Winds less than 5 mph.
The readings from my own instruments are:
The humidity is 73% with a Dew Point of 53.6ºF and a wind chill of 62.3ºF.
The temperature is 62.5ºF.
We have North Northeast winds between 1.0 MPH and 4.3 MPH.
Our Barometric pressure is 29.93 HPA 1013.5 and steady with a weather
graphic indicating clouds.
The UV rating is 1 out of 16, sunset will be at 7:49 PM with Moon Rise at
10:35 a.m. and the moon phase is waxing crescent.
For the pilots out there, Raw Metar readings are:
METAR KAUG 111053Z AUTO 27004KT 10SM CLR 15/09 A3003 RMK AO2 SLP168
T01500094
Visibility is 10.0 miles/16.1 kilometers with clear conditions.
We've hadno rain here in the past 24 hours.
Tonight and tomorrow night wil feature some great meteor shower watching
times if your skies are clear and you aren't near bright city lights.
Enjoy the show.
The annual August Perseid meteor shower will put on its best show after
midnight on Sunday and Monday, according to the editors of StarDate
magazine.
Prime viewing time begins when the constellation Perseus rises into fine
view in the northeast. The waxing crescent Moon will have set by then and
will not obscure the view of any meteors. Under dark skies, viewers may see
up to a couple of dozen meteors per hour, particularly in the pre-dawn hours
of August 12.
Perseid meteors appear to fall from the constellation Perseus, but they are
not associated with it. The meteors are actually leftover debris from comet
Swift-Tuttle. The Perseid meteors recur each year when Earth passes through
its debris trail.
Published bi-monthly by UT Austin's McDonald Observatory, StarDate magazine
provides readers with skywatching tips, skymaps, beautiful astronomical
photos, astronomy news and features, and a 32-page Sky Almanac each January.
If you enjoy this sort of thing, go to the web site I got the foregoing
from:
http://www.utexas.edu/know/2013/08/07/look-up-perseid-meteor-shower-peaks-au
g-11-12/
There are a lot of really interesting items to be found there. Enjoy the
late summer evening.
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